Cobwebs?

[lebloom]

I have a 75gal setup and in my LR there is stuff which looks like cobwebs on it. Got any ideas?

 

[Dragon Wrasse]

Long small white tube like things, could be a type of worm, I have them in my Nano...do you have any pics....what else is in your tank???, maybe its slime off of a softy coral??? Need to know more about your setup.....BTW welcome to RS!!

 

[lebloom]

No pictures of it. Its a 75gal FOWLR, about 100 lbs of LR and 5 fish. 1 yellow Tang, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 Yellowtail Damsel and 2 Common Clowns with about 24 snails and crabs and a few peppermint shrimp. This stuff on my rock is a whitish color and really doesnt look like a worm, more like a cobweb. Someone says a fungus but not what type. It comes and goes meaning that its not always around.

 

[Cougra]

Do you mean something like this linked picture?

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/images/image009.jpg

This is caused by tube snails called vermetid snails. They are common in and on live rocks. The webbing you are discribing is there modified antenae which capure food particles in the water and are pulled back to the snail so it can feed.

Here is a good article from Reef Keeping Magazine about them:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php

 

[Dragon Wrasse]

Try and get a pic of it.....the stuff in my Nano if you try and touch or grab it it will retract back into the LR.....and it does it fast.

 

[Dragon Wrasse]

Nice info Michelle, the pic of Fig. 5 is what I was talking about...Nice, Thanks.

 

[Witfull]

is there a yellow tint to it?

right now im going to venture vermtid or spagetti worms.

 

[jesse_224]

I also had the same thing happen in my nano. After doing a little research, I found out it was spagetti worms. They seem pretty cool...or maybe im easily entertained....