slime string maker?

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  1. hydrojeff

    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    hi all, i have a animal in my rock that makes a long clear or white web like string and puts it out in the current then pull it in when it has a meal on it, any idea what this could be? thanks all for your time....
     
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  2. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    spaghetti worm possibly?
     
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  3. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Does it looke like its coming out of a curved tube? If it is its a vermetid snail.
     
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  4. hydrojeff

    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    sorry its on the back of a rock i can only see that it eats the slime it makes pulling the slime trail in
     
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  5. rodcpierce

    rodcpierce Ritteri Anemone

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    im gonna say a verm. snail. Ide get rid of it
     
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  6. hydrojeff

    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    should i just break the part of the rock its living in?
     
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  7. hydrojeff

    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    vermetid snails good or bad im sure thats what it is.....thanks for the ID guys.....
     
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  8. Valhalla

    Valhalla Plankton

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    I have these as well. Could be anyway. There are several 3/8" to 1/2" tubes coming off my rocks kinda like a feather duster tube. When I feed each one lets out a stringy tentacle type thing up to 3-4" long. As odd as it is they don't seem to bother anything so I leave em.
     
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    hydrojeff Montipora Capricornis

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    the only reason i ask is because it touched my zenia and it closed up till it pulled off it
     
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  10. rodcpierce

    rodcpierce Ritteri Anemone

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    yes, they cause corals to close up, ide remove the damn thing.
     
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