What is this thing???

[ryan820]

Last night, before the sun turned off above the tank, I noticed this translucent, web-like thing near the base of one of the large rocks in my tank. This morning it was still there and I also found a much larger specimen of the same looking thing on the intake of my HOB filter, which is weird, because it looks like it's all puffed up-like, despite the water being sucked up!

So since pics help the best, here they are...

Oops...my sixline got in the way! He tends to do that...

Difficult to see this next one but here it is..

And a short video for you to see of it... I did my best... and sorry for the clock gonging...hopefully your sound isn't up too high.

[video]http://youtu.be/UPNpoVmEQSw[/video]

 

[Cake_Boss]

no idea, looks like some kind of molting aftermath

 

[ryan820]

no idea, looks like some kind of molting aftermath

Molting aftermath... sounds a little freaky to me. I'm sure I have things that molt... but nothing very large. I have hermits and pods, but nothing bigger than those.

 

[Off The Deep End]

Do you have a cowrie? Mine leaves a big slime trail like that when he goes across stuff.

 

[ryan820]

Do you have a cowrie? Mine leaves a big slime trail like that when he goes across stuff.

No, I don't have one of those, and not sure what it is. It's very strange-looking though-- like like slime, but it has fibers, or what look like fibers, to give it structure. Very weird.

 

[Off The Deep End]

what snails do you have? What corals do you have?

 

[ryan820]

what snails do you have? What corals do you have?

Turbos and those kind that dig into the sand.... can't remember their names. Thats it for the snails, though it looks like I adopted a stowaway but it's very small. I also adopted the tiniest little star fish, but they stay on the frog spawn frags (at least they appear to do that).

 

[Off The Deep End]

Hmmmm... im concerned that the starfish are eating your frogspawn. Asterina starfish will do that i think. What you are seeing is probably secreted from your frogspawn.

 

[Wicked Color]

Lol, probably a vermetid snail, sure looks like it to me anyway.

 

[Off The Deep End]

Lol, probably a vermetid snail, sure looks like it to me anyway.

+1 that too.

 

[amonchak]

Could also be from the sixline. They will make a kind or slime "nest" each night. From what I have read it is to help mask their sent from predators.

Is it attached to anything or free floating? If its attached to what looks like a swirl then Wicked is probably right with the vermited snail ID.