Mucus all over

I ended up moving a couple of corals and the feather dusters around today. The dusters are buried in the substrate, so I pulled them out from ~2-3 inches of sand. After I washed my hands off, the tank is filled with mucus!

The last time I had mucus like this, it was when I had the chalice out of the tank and in a bowl w/ tank water for a few minutes, covering up the hole in the skeleton. This is still much worse, though, and the mucus doesn't seem to be annoying any of the corals. The chalice's mucus definitely made anything it touched shrivel up, so could this stuff be from the substrate being turned up? I don't think it was from the corals; the chalice hardly got moved. One of the dusters was attached to the very bottom skeleton portion of the trachy. Maybe from the trachy let off this mucus?

 

It's most likely just from the corals. I have never heard of or seen mucus from stirring the sand.

 

Neither have I lol. I thought it might be something from the sand that reacted and formed stuff with the consistency of mucus, because as it stirred up, it was ultradirty.

 

Is it the stringy stuff in the pics? Perhaps you excited your duster when you moved it and it's now trying to reproduce.

Seriously, watch your featherduster and see if it's releasing stringy mucus. That's one form of thier reproduction.

 

Wow, that's totally what I think it is. The duster has the stringy mucus accumulating at the back end that was glued to the trachy skeleton, and absolutely won't close its crown now. That's the first time I've has my duster be unwilling to close its crown, even if I touch it lol.

 

Contact made it VERY happy ;D