White Worms on Mushroom that won't completely expand

[daisy002]

I have recently added a new mushroom, and just noticed some tiny white worm things that are on the outside edge of the shroom... I pulled the thing out and put it by itself at the moment in case these things are bad. The shroom hasn't gotten much larger than a quarter since I've had it

What is this?

 

[reefer999]

Can you post a picture, it would help.

 

[daisy002]

On the edge of the shroom...

 

[SushiGirl]

Are they moving? Did you dip it?

 

[daisy002]

They wiggle a very little bit, I haven't dipped it yet... Any ideas on what these could be?

 

[SushiGirl]

No idea without an extreme closeup. I'd dip it.

 

[daisy002]

I think I will go ahead and dip it, and get it off the shell its on, in case anything is inside it...

 

[SushiGirl]

Definitely get it off the shell if you can, I got a bunch of zoas from a local guy that were on a cluster of shells, dipped them in CoralRX, then after adding to my tank I noticed in one of the shells a polyclad flatworm (snail eater). I pulled that shell, but there must've been more because after a year we spotted another HUGE one in our tank a week ago. :headwalls:

The one I found spent 10 days in the dip before it died.

 

[daisy002]

OMG- Its crazy you just said that.... I've had a couple of snails die here recently for no apparent reason after adding that damn shell. Ugh, I knew better than to do that :hmm2:

 

[T-dub]

I don't think those are worms. Especially on Rhodactis I see them all the time. Not sure what they're called but when the shrooms get stressed, the will spit out these little white coils. Looks to me like that's what you have going on. I would get it back in your tank and leave it alone for awhile. Looks pretty healthy other than that. It should bounce back quickly.

 

[SushiGirl]

I thought he as talking about on the edges LOL. If they're in the center, they're the mysenterial (sp?) filaments aka its guts. They do that when they're stressed.

Edit: yeah, he said on the edge & its on the edge in the pic. Not the same thing at all.

 

[lecher]

Kinda looks like vermitid snails. Are they hard little coiled tubes? If so, I would super glue their tubes shut. They can multiple like crazy and irritate adjacent corals.