Sudden single spidery algae monster

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Murftoo said:
2 hours, ouch! Thank you for trying!
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Yeah 3300 posts is alot to sift through and knew I possibly even most definately have the answer as I remember replying to another thread of a video they shared saying parts of the Web detaches/ moves then reattaches then we got a name but unfortunately no cigar this time.keep bumping thread I'm sure someone must know and I really want to know again lol
 
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The most similar l looking organism I could think of is a Foraminiferan… but they don’t just disappear and reappear like OP’s creature… it probably came from the next solar system over:
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Erin1971Texas said:
Possibly Labyrinthula?

Ying yang, I think I found your thread... https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/id-and-help-please.866458/#post-9475226
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That's the thread I was on about,well that explains why didn't find it as started looking at threads from September backwards till I joined r2r in the April.
@Murftoo , @Erin1971Texas has painstakingly went back through my posts to find the one I was in about so look up name they say and compare to yours.

Thankyou Erin,I knew was there lol
 
ying yang said:
That's the thread I was on about,well that explains why didn't find it as started looking at threads from September backwards till I joined r2r in the April.
@Murftoo , @Erin1971Texas has painstakingly went back through my posts to find the one I was in about so look up name they say and compare to yours.

Thankyou Erin,I knew was there lol
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Lol, I most certainly did not go back through your posts! Just did a little digging and saw your name in the thread I found.
 
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Sorry- my phone was hiding replies from me.

Omg, mystery solved! We have a name... Labyrinthula! Thank you so much, @ying yang and @Erin1971Texas. That definitely looks like it/them. Apparently, they primarily thrive on seagrass and I had a large chunk of seagrass attached to my live rock when it came in, so it makes sense. I hope they stick around for a while because they are a ton of fun to watch every night!

Thanks again- the curiosity was killing me!
 
Murftoo said:
Sorry- my phone was hiding replies from me.

Omg, mystery solved! We have a name... Labyrinthula! Thank you so much, @ying yang and @Erin1971Texas. That definitely looks like it/them. Apparently, they primarily thrive on seagrass and I had a large chunk of seagrass attached to my live rock when it came in, so it makes sense. I hope they stick around for a while because they are a ton of fun to watch every night!

Thanks again- the curiosity was killing me!
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Good to know! You learn something new every day...
Sorry to hijack, but do you have any pictures of this seagrass? I have only ever heard of them attaching to mud/sand.
 
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Murftoo said:
It's back! I was armed with a magnifying glass and good light this time.

Inside the brown web, it looks like a very, very thin long white thing (or many things joined together). At the end of it, little pieces or individuals will suddenly shoot off into a new branch and then slowly morph back to place on the main line. They do this multiple times in one place until a little trail forms, then they will shoot off in a different direction. The best part is that they brighten up as they shoot off so that it looks like very tiny little branching lightening strikes if you look very closely!

I still don't know what it is, but it's the coolest thing I've seen in my tank yet. I tried hard to get it on video, but nothing turned out and the web was gone in a few hours.
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some kind of worm thats using mucus to build tubes
 
Murftoo said:
Sorry- my phone was hiding replies from me.

Omg, mystery solved! We have a name... Labyrinthula! Thank you so much, @ying yang and @Erin1971Texas. That definitely looks like it/them. Apparently, they primarily thrive on seagrass and I had a large chunk of seagrass attached to my live rock when it came in, so it makes sense. I hope they stick around for a while because they are a ton of fun to watch every night!

Thanks again- the curiosity was killing me!
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Wow! what a cool tankmate! lucky you!
 
@WheatToast I was wrong! Going back through my pictures of when I first got the live rock, it looks like what I was thinking of is just some red seaweed algae (in the pic below). I distinctly remember a few strands of seagrass as well, but I didn't get any pics before I tossed them, so I'm guessing they were just free floating in the water I got.
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Murftoo said:
@WheatToast I was wrong! Going back through my pictures of when I first got the live rock, it looks like what I was thinking of is just some red seaweed algae (in the pic below). I distinctly remember a few strands of seagrass as well, but I didn't get any pics before I tossed them, so I'm guessing they were just free floating in the water I got.
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It seems to be a species of Halymenia, a genus of popular, red macroalgae, such as Dragon's breath (Halymenia durvillei) and Red sea lettuce (Halymenia floridana). Looks neat! Do you still have it?
 
WheatToast said:
It seems to be a species of Halymenia, a genus of popular, red macroalgae, such as Dragon's breath (Halymenia durvillei) and Red sea lettuce (Halymenia floridana). Looks neat! Do you still have it?
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I do! There is a chunk in my sump and some growing on a powerhead now. I took a different approach in that I threw in 100lbs of live rock (shipped overnight in water) directly in tank and welcomed all hitchhikers with open arms in the name of as much biological diversity as I could get. I've had some challenges because of this and quickly changed my tune by manually removing gorilla crabs, polyclad flatworms, and bryopsis, but I try to let everything else go.

It may bite me in the butt one day soon, but right now, I have a tank that's a little over 2 months old that is stable and nearly fully stocked with coraline all of the place, thriving SPS, and so, so many other cool hitchhikers. I've become a huge evangelist for live Florida live rock (TBS rocks!) and just keep my fingers crossed that my luck keeps holding. :)
 
Murftoo said:
Inside the brown web, it looks like a very, very thin long white thing (or many things joined together). At the end of it, little pieces or individuals will suddenly shoot off into a new branch and then slowly morph back to place on the main line. They do this multiple times in one place until a little trail forms, then they will shoot off in a different direction. The best part is that they brighten up as they shoot off so that it looks like very tiny little branching lightening strikes if you look very closely!

I still don't know what it is, but it's the coolest thing I've seen in my tank yet. I tried hard to get it on video, but nothing turned out and the web was gone in a few hours.
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Excellent. I love this.

video in this post from the older thread....
bradb90 said:
This video of it may help
YouTube is still uploading the higher resolutions.

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Zoomed in shots in that video are clear and make it obvious that we are talking about a colony of worms - at 1:00 you can see individual worms. (It's not labyrinthula - which is far tinier, and thought of as a slime mold in this cool video from the 70's)
 
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Murftoo said:
Sorry- my phone was hiding replies from me.

Omg, mystery solved! We have a name... Labyrinthula! Thank you so much, @ying yang and @Erin1971Texas. That definitely looks like it/them. Apparently, they primarily thrive on seagrass and I had a large chunk of seagrass attached to my live rock when it came in, so it makes sense. I hope they stick around for a while because they are a ton of fun to watch every night!

Thanks again- the curiosity was killing me!
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Your very much welcome but cigar goes to Erin as they did some digging on the net and then came across my thread.
I looked for 2 hours on my previous threads but started looking September backwards but thread was in October so complete waste if time but I knew the answer was in my post somewhere ha ha.
But you got a positive id so that's all that matters ^_^
Good luck with your tank and hope you get great enjoyment from it

Edit: umm above post from a more experienced reefer than me seems to think its not what I said so ^_^ but says worms which I thought was anyway ha ha.
Not read that thread I was on about since October but from what I can remember if it was that it was some kind of worm that acts individually but also in a colony so to speak and was labyrinthe or however you spell it but maybe I remember it wrong since October
 
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taricha said:
Excellent. I love this.

video in this post from the older thread....

Zoomed in shots in that video are clear and make it obvious that we are talking about a colony of worms - at 1:00 you can see individual worms. (It's not labyrinthula - which is far tinier, and thought of as a slime mold in this cool video from the 70's)
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Confused me for a moment there as first video you shared was from the thread that I tried looking for and Erin finally found and you shared same video but said its different so I'm like umm but just seen link at bottom your reply with video from 70's and just watched and now makes sense as it under a microscope I take it and says cells from labyrinthina are 10 microns so much smaller than in this op pictures/ videos and also the previous older thread, so if this isn't labyrinthia and is infact worms that make colonies, what worms are they or don't you know that ?

Anyway very interesting old video you shared and microscopic world is so interesting I love it ha ha and nature is brilliant ^_^
 
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