Help identifying something?

ahullsb · 10/30/2006, 05:13 PM

I will add pictures tonight when I get home. It looks a lot like a spider web, mucus, or "smoke" in a few crevices of my rock. I don't know what it is or whether it's good or bad. My cleaner shrimp ignore it. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

BrandonS · 10/30/2006, 05:16 PM

might be a speghetti worm. They have tentacles on one end that they branch out from one point to the surrounding LR. The tentacles catch stuff floating around in the water on them and they pull them back in and eat it.

ahullsb · 10/30/2006, 05:16 PM

good or bad?

demonsp · 10/30/2006, 05:18 PM

Sounds like vermited snail . harmless filter feeder . But the web can bother some coral if the webb hangs on them . Pic would be great.

ahullsb · 10/30/2006, 05:20 PM

i will post one for sure when I get home. It does seem to branch out and looks like a line from a spider web, but looks kind of "snotty" too.

demonsp · 10/30/2006, 05:24 PM

Yea the snotty parts are debris its feeding on . Its what the web is catching from the water.Do a google search on vermited snails and look under photos to see if you find it. gl

Paintbug · 10/30/2006, 05:57 PM

heres a pic of some vermited snails from my tank. these are without the webs.

10/30/2006, 05:13 PM	#1
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	Help identifying something? I will add pictures tonight when I get home. It looks a lot like a spider web, mucus, or "smoke" in a few crevices of my rock. I don't know what it is or whether it's good or bad. My cleaner shrimp ignore it. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

10/30/2006, 05:16 PM	#3
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	good or bad? __________________ Andy Sacramento, CA Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef w/20 gallon sump/ER135/ 75 pounds of live rock, 4 in sandbed, 2 b&w ocellaris clowns, yellow watchman/pistol, rosy scaled wrasse, Mystery wrasse, Copperbanded Butterfly, Lighting 48" outer orbit 2 150 mh/ 4 t5 actinics

10/30/2006, 05:20 PM	#5
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	i will post one for sure when I get home. It does seem to branch out and looks like a line from a spider web, but looks kind of "snotty" too. __________________ Andy Sacramento, CA Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef w/20 gallon sump/ER135/ 75 pounds of live rock, 4 in sandbed, 2 b&w ocellaris clowns, yellow watchman/pistol, rosy scaled wrasse, Mystery wrasse, Copperbanded Butterfly, Lighting 48" outer orbit 2 150 mh/ 4 t5 actinics

10/30/2006, 05:57 PM	#7
Paintbug Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Stoneville, NC Posts: 6,169	heres a pic of some vermited snails from my tank. these are without the webs. __________________ Never ask a girl over to see your crabs!! <-Tony-> Current Tank Info: NONE currently

10/30/2006, 05:16 PM	#2
BrandonS Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 255	might be a speghetti worm. They have tentacles on one end that they branch out from one point to the surrounding LR. The tentacles catch stuff floating around in the water on them and they pull them back in and eat it.

10/30/2006, 05:18 PM	#4
demonsp Moved On Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: el paso tx Posts: 7,634	Sounds like vermited snail . harmless filter feeder . But the web can bother some coral if the webb hangs on them . Pic would be great.

10/30/2006, 05:24 PM	#6
demonsp Moved On Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: el paso tx Posts: 7,634	Yea the snotty parts are debris its feeding on . Its what the web is catching from the water.Do a google search on vermited snails and look under photos to see if you find it. gl