"Stuff" floating in tank?

[damselmaster]

Saw some white cob-web type strandy stringy stuff floating in my tank earlier. It seemed to come from an area between the pencil urchin and the feather duster. Is this a normal discharge from one of them? THanks

 

[Anonymous]

Well, it could be (urchins, IIRC, have been known to spawn/milt when conditions are urchin-worthy), but then again, it could have come from something else. Especially if you have decent live rock with lots of those old critters.

Btw, welcome to reefs.org, damselmaster.

P.S. We have a group here which consists of folks who are quite literally gluttons for pictures, so if you could post a piccie.. you sure would make a lot of geeks happy.

 

[fishfanatic2]

Is it strandy, stickyish, and floats around the tank and makes a mess? If so, then you are the first person I know to have the same ting as I did! Urchin milt looks different (had that too) In that it's just this cloudy, milky stuff that vents from five places. If you find out what this sticky stuff is, Congratulations, and PM me what it is!

 

[Anonymous]

Are you sure its white sticky stuff or clear...SPS corals will emit a clear cob webby like discharge also...???
Im not sure...???

 

[brandon4291]

I would put 50$ of my total 60$ on the bet that it is waste emissions from your large sabellid (fanworm). There are even times you will look at a crevice of LR and see a little eruption of like material coming from a tiny tiny hole in the rock, this is the waste ejecta of small worms that live in the rock. My fanworms are fed heavily, and regularly eject this material as a waste product

HTH

B

 

[WRASSER]

Damselmaster,
the pencil urchin was probably bothering the feather duster. the feather duster was the one giving of the cob webs. when ever my hermit crab gets near the feather dusters they do this spider-man thing.hope i helped!
good luck


wasser 8)