Help me ID a ??? (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I have what looks like a spider web growing in my tank. It comes from under or in a rock. I first noticed it as about 1/2 inch sorta clear/whitish thread. Now it is about 3 inchs long. And it appears to have chased my condy away, but not for sure as condy is new and i just got some good lighting.(6 g tank had 8w fl no now have 18 w pc half white, half blue.)

The thing is thicker at its origin, whih I can not see too well, and real thin at the end. Also there are some bends, about 90 degrees in 2 or more placves. At the thicker en it appears to be webby, I have not been able to get it to show in a picture yet.

 

[Guest]

correction

I should not have said spider web, I meant to say looks like one thread of a spider web.

 

[Guest]

it might be a feather duster. i got one as a hitchhiker on one of my peices of LR. any pics of it?

 

[Guest]

It's probably a spagetti worm. Feather dusters have a crown of feathers that collect food. Spagetti worms casts out a mucus thread and food sticks to it.

 

[Guest]

Is it kinda thick, like around lets say 1/8"and clear. I have something in my sump that resembles that but mine looks more like a worm. Although come to think about it i did see something like what you mentioned come out of my leather, it looked like it was pulling things from the water and retracting them back in to the leather.

 

[Guest]

worm?

It is not thick, more like the thickness of a human hair at the end and about the thickness of a pencil lead as far as I can see towards the base, the rest of it is under/behind a rock at sand level.

 

[FireEater]

Do they look like these Spaghetti Worms I have all over my tanks?

Mark

 

[Guest]

not at all. All i see is a "thread" waving about coming from under a rock

 

[sultros]

Sounds like it could be a vermited worm. They have a small calcious tube that extends and retracts what looks like a web of snot. They arent necessarily bad they they are ugle and their snot webs will annoy some corals.