Trumpet Coral Tentacle(?)

[Lee1]

I've had this frag in my tank for about 2 months and it has been doing well. Today I added some DT's Phytoplankton (first time I've added anything for inverts) as my gold Maxima was looking a little small. After I added a small amount of the stuff, this tentacle looking (translucent with a white tip) came out and started waving around. I know it is response to the DT's as it ballooned up (in a good way) along with all my other coral and clam. So what is this tentacle thingy? See pic ("tentacle" runs between the 2 red arrows).

 

[ReefRian]

Lee,

I also noticed them on my trumpet/candy cane coral. I just figured that's how they catch things in the water to feed on.

Rian

 

[pperez]

Yes they are feeding tentacles. They can also develop sweeper tentacles which are more adopted for defense, or aggression. My trumpets put out 4-5" sweepers.

All in all, you will always see them like that at night, it's natural. Good time to feed them too. HTH

 

[Lee1]

Thanks for the replies.

Lee

 

[Anonymous]

You can target feed trumpets, I used to feed mine small pieces of formula one, worked very well, started with 2 polyps, when I got rid of them, I had a nice colony of 20+ polyps. L8r mega