Does your fungia do *this*?

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eshook

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Every night my fungia has been extending its sweeper tentacles. It seems every night they get a little longer. I would say its 14"+ at this point. Well within the reach of many corals in my 24 nano-cube.

Here is a picture of the sweepers at night
sweeper.jpg


Here is a picture of the plate coral during the day (for those of you who don't know its the green circle in the sandbed :O)
plate.jpg


Does your fungia sp. do this too? Should I be concerned about warfare?
 
Are you sure those are comming out of the fungia or surrounding rockwork or if you see any other animal growing on the coral that may form a calcified tube?
 
thats a type of flatworm, had them on my leather years ago.
check with a flashlight,you will see them zip that line in real fast.
they blended in so well with my leather that they looked like a scar, pulled them apart with tweezers because they gripped on tight.
 
I'll look at the bottom of the fungia tonight and make sure, but when I purchased it (2 weeks ago) it was just its calcified plate on the bottom (that I noticed at least).

fraggin,
A flatworm? Really? The sweepers (entities?) do not retract with light (the backlight in the picture is a lamp) and I also used the flash on my camera with no effect.
 
They don't seem like sweeper tentacles to me either, but I don't know what else they could be. They are originating from the coral area (and not the sandbed). But there could be an organism on the calcified skeleton.

I'll look when I get home!
 
Not sweepers. They are from another invert/organism in the tank. Have seen them before and there are other threads about them on RC.
 
You guys are right. There is something that is growing on the bottom side of the disc.

underplate.jpg


If you look closely on the left side by the top you can see part of the long string-like object that I pictured above.

Does anyone know what this is?

It feels squishy to the touch and is covering almost 50% of the bottom of the plate.
 
flip that fungia over, look for some snot looking crap under it if the threads are coming out around it. i never thought about a FW dip tho when i had them, wonder if that would get them to peel off easily.
 
dip that bast in fw for a feew secs
looked back, that is one big a$$ flatworm, mine where only 1 inch but several.
 
If thats a flatworm that has to be a world record or something! The coral is 4-5" across so thats a HUGE flatworm!

Will a fw dip hurt the plate? I obviously don't want to kill/hurt the plate coral.
 
i think about 5 secs it will be running,otherwise tweezers and pulling it off in pieces.

get a dish of FW and a plate of tank water, dip in FW and when it comes off, put the plate back in your tank water.
 
A 5 second dip? That might work.

I'll have to do it tomorrow. Lights are almost out and I have a few things that I need to finish. Plus I can take some pictures of the cool thread-like things tonight :) They are neat to see sway in the water column.

Then tomorrow with any luck the long stringed booger will be dead.
 
heh, GL
i think it is amazing how long of a "fishing line" these things can stretch out compared to their body size.
 
Nice catch pixiecath.

I googled the name and this page popped up

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/ctenophores/pages/h097_jpg.htm

This page calls it a 'purse jelly'.

Thats exactly what my tentacle things look like (although they have a much cooler picture)

You say not harmful, but will it:
a) spread
b) harm corals / inverts / fish
?

I'll have to do some digging. Thanks for the name!

It was close fraggin, but I think pixie has hit it on the nose.
 
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