Sweepers

[Mofo84]

my torch puts out these long tentacles

 

[danch]

Now those are sweepers! That bulb on the end (acrosphere?) has a large number of stinging cells.

 

[Sheol]

Favids are pretty notorious for this, but Euphyllia are the champs! Also, all of their relatives produce sweepers..

Matthew

 

[mystrybird]

Due to a Nasty call I received about the picture I posted.

I feel the need to give further details.

I received that piece from a site for 15$ (my idea of a free bee)

That is how it looked upon delivery.

I regret sending them a positive email right now.
I tried to make the best of it as I was happy with some of the shipment. (have never asked that they honor the 14 day guarantee after many orders) Only asked for reimbursement for the DOA's once in a while. (many DOA never even addressed)

I Did Not cause that coral's degeneration.
It arrived in that condition.

 

[fierceseaman]

My torch puts out huge sweepers, sometimes 2-3 times longer than its normal tentacles, but I've never seen sweepers on my frogspawn and hammer coral, does anyone have pictures of their sweepers?

 

[Sheol]

One thing I just noticed, someone said low flow encorages sweepers...
That is incorrect. High flow is notorious. Most boos say to keep Euphyllia in low-moderate currents to lessen sweepers..

Matthew

 

[Sheol]

Acck!

"BOOKS"

Matthew

 

[GobyJohnKenobi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10994961#post10994961 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mystrybird
So is this the same thing in the pictures. They were taken about an hour apart. Is it attacking itself?
mesenterial filaments is the name I was trying to recall. They still come out at night but on the bottom side.

Looks to me like the polyps are trying to regrow after receding and the mesenterial filaments are being used to clear the skeleton of any foreign tissue that has colonized since the recession.

 

[GobyJohnKenobi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11056736#post11056736 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sheol
One thing I just noticed, someone said low flow encorages sweepers...
That is incorrect. High flow is notorious. Most boos say to keep Euphyllia in low-moderate currents to lessen sweepers..

Matthew

Higher flow does encourage the growth of sweepers by my frogspawn up to a certain point. Even higher rates of flow inhibit polyp extension of any sort.