Help! What is this on my corals?

[tmadonia]

Hi All,

A couple weeks ago, I noticed two green mushrooms I have shrinking considerable and appearing to be eaten away leaving some kind of curly, spaghetting like filamentous stuff.


Yesterday I noticed my metallic green torch had a small ball of the same stuff near the mouth on one of the heads. Today it looks like it has expanded into the mouth/insides of this head.

I found a photo online of a torch that has the same stuff on it.

What is it? What can I do about it?

Thanks much!

T

 

[atzak]

I've seen mushrooms kind of expel their guts and it looks like that. Perhaps the torch has similar innards. I don't believe that is the cause, but more a symptom. I'd do a large water change regardless. Test all chemistry and double check that all your fish are not picking at the coral

 

[tmadonia]

Thanks for the reply.

I was initially considering that, but when it appeared on my torch, it presented as a small ball about 3/16" in diameter about 1/4" away from the mouth on one of the heads.

At first I thought it might have broken off the mushrooms and landed there.

Could the also be some kind of worm infestation or damage from such?

T

 

[reefman13]

Don't hold me to this, but I had a person ask the same question with this stuff on my local reef board, and we determined that it was actually reproductive fluid...