Can Anyone Tell Me What This Is? (PIC)

[NoFear29]

Found this in my tank this morning, after doing a water change last night. It is a mass of something, attached to the substrate by a couple of strands of mucus looking stuff. It blows around in the current, and it kind of looks like a translucent cotton ball. I don't know if something spawned or what. It is roughly one inch in diameter.

Here is the pic.

[ September 10, 2001: Message edited by: NoFear29 ]

 

[Carpentersreef]

It looks like an egg mass of SOMETHING, do you have a list of inverts, or suspicions of what deposited it?

Mitch

 

[NoFear29]

Mated pair CBS. Dont think so.
1 Peppermint shrimp
1 Cleaner shrimp. No to both
Hermits, (blue and scarlet)
4 Fighting Conchs
Cerith Snails
Astrea Snails
There is a Strange looking crab that keeps showing up right around that area.

Any Ideas?

 

[jmeader]

Looks like the egg mass of a worm.

 

[Bomber]

Southern Lugworm.

 

[NoFear29]

Bomber,
Why do you think it is a southern lugworm? Only info I can find on that is that it is some kind of segmented worm. Is that good or bad? Should I remove it?

 

[Anonymous]

From my invertebrate zoology class, I remeber lug worms as being meters long and thumb size around.

However, that exact thing is found all over Florida's saltwater bay inthe sediment, and I and my prof suspect it to be a mucus casing from some type of sediment-dwelling worm. Try looking under the tank in that area in the evening/night.

 

[pcragg]

I just saw something similar in my 55. I think it is type of snail that attaches itself to a rock and doesn't move. It feeds by releasing these mucous strands that catch debris as it floats by. Then after a while it pulls the mucous strands back in and eats whatever it catches. Its kind of like fishing with a net. In my tank, this thing is in a tube about two cms long, and has a little black cap that opens up when feeding. It is fun to watch!

 

[Anonymous]

I think someone hawked a loogie into your tank.

 

[Chucker]

Moving to the HH Forum.