Cynarina has white spaghetti like stuff coming out

[peewee5779]

Came home today to find this stringy spaghetti like stuff coming out of it and also mucus. I haven't done anything different to the tank other than a normal every two week water change yesterday. I have had this coral for 8 months now and have never had any issues with it. All other corals are fine. Any body else experienced this before?

 

[KrisReef]

Those are fleshy parts of the stomach that is trying to snare some food. Drop in a chuck of shrimp, tuna, salmon, clam, or other seafood (sized for that tiny coral) and watch it eat it. You might need to put a net or 1/2 plastic bottle, or something similar over the coral to keep the clown or other fishes from stealing the meal. gl.

Mesentery filaments or something like that?

 

[LPS Bum]

Looks like mesenterial filaments to me. They can be used to digest neighbors during coral warfare.

 

[peewee5779]

Those are fleshy parts of the stomach that is trying to snare some food. Drop in a chuck of shrimp, tuna, salmon, clam, or other seafood (sized for that tiny coral) and watch it eat it. You might need to put a net or 1/2 plastic bottle, or something similar over the coral to keep the clown or other fishes from stealing the meal. gl.

Mesentery filaments or something like that?

Wow I've never seen it do that before! The only thing that I noticed that was different was that my cleaner shrimp had molted and its exo skeleton was laying near the cynarina. Maybe it was trying to snatch the remains?

 

[peewee5779]

Looks like mesenterial filaments to me. They can be used to digest neighbors during coral warfare.

Thanks I believe you are correct. I thought I was going to lose it but it seems to be doing fine.