ID On No Clue TBH

[ajremington68]

The Gist of the story winter pipe organ had been doing good, had fallen off and stopped opening and I had run into some swings and stuff so I assumed it was that. I picked it up today and saw these fuzzy white tube things growing off of it, and previously was the happiest coral in my tank producing new little polyps daily, now out of the whole coral 4 to 5 little polyps will open. What are these things, are they bad, can dip remove them, what to do... Any insight helps! Bonus there is a little brown thing on the flat side of the plug that looks like a microworm, Does anybody know what that is? I see them from time to time.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

The white tubes are pineapple sponges- harmless filter feeders. You should be able remove them easily if you want to.

 

[Patx]

Hard tube ?

Broke them...

 

[ajremington68]

The white tubes are pineapple sponges- harmless filter feeders. You should be able remove them easily if you want to.

Do you think they could be the cause of the unhappy coral or unlikely?

 

[ajremington68]

Hard tube ?

Broke them...

what do you mean by this?

 

[Patx]

The thing in my red circles... are they hard ?

 

[ajremington68]

The thing in my red circles... are they hard ?

I got no clue let me check it out

 

[Patx]

Probably vermetid snail or other "irritants worm"...

 

[ajremington68]

The thing in my red circles... are they hard ?

the whitish greenish things no they move, un sure what that is.

 

[ajremington68]

Probably vermetid snail or other "irritants worm"...

how does one dispose of those out of their tank?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Do you think they could be the cause of the unhappy coral or unlikely?

Extremely unlikely; they might irritate the polyps immediately around them a bit, but they definitely wouldn’t do that to the whole coral.

the whitish greenish things no they move, un sure what that is.

If they move, they’re definitely not vermetid snails. They may be some kind of large pods or something, I’m not sure.

 

[MoshJosh]

how does one dispose of those out of their tank?

CRUSH THEM! GRIND THEIR LACK OF BONES INTO DUST!

Crush them at the base with pliers or tweezers.

 

[ajremington68]

CRUSH THEM! GRIND THEIR LACK OF BONES INTO DUST!

Crush them at the base with pliers or tweezers.

EYE EYE CAPTAIN

 

[Patx]

CRUSH THEM! GRIND THEIR LACK OF BONES INTO DUST!

Crush them at the base with pliers or tweezers.

Lol ! Yep... but it not them.

 

[MoshJosh]

Extremely unlikely; they might irritate the polyps immediately around them a bit, but they definitely wouldn’t do that to the whole coral.

If they move, they’re definitely not vermetid snails. They may be some kind of large pods or something, I’m not sure.

Agreed, vermetids don't move. . . well the snail inside does but they can't move locations. That said, having seen about a billion, I still think those are vermetids and seeing them move was a false memory. . . like The Berenstain Bears