What are these white strings on my blastomussa

[BurtMacklin]

I've had this blastomussa for a couple months now. This week noticed these white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over.

 

[ying yang]

No picture but im guessing you mean " mesamental filaments "

They are the insides of the coral and can use these for feeding I think I once read or as a feeding response or something like this ( not the feeding tentacles ) ,or when stressed and or try get a neighboring coral away from it and starts a war so to speak .
Sometimes my lobo does it if a hermit walks on it .

 

[BurtMacklin]

No picture but im guessing you mean " mesamental filaments "

Pics might have been uploading still. Refresh the page?

 

[ying yang]

LPS Mesenterial Filaments?

My corals have been going down one by one for the past few weeks. Are these mesenterial filaments or something parasitic? Thanks in advance for your support here, R2R world!

www.reef2reef.com

Yes see photo now.looks like it's out if water correct ?
Does it look like the image in post number 1 in thread I share above ?
Like curly white bits ? If so then yeah

 

[BurtMacklin]

LPS Mesenterial Filaments?

My corals have been going down one by one for the past few weeks. Are these mesenterial filaments or something parasitic? Thanks in advance for your support here, R2R world!

www.reef2reef.com

Yes see photo now.looks like it's out if water correct ?
Does it look like the image in post number 1 in thread I share above ?
Like curly white bits ? If so then yeah

Not curly at all in or out of the water.

 

[ying yang]

Umm interesting .
Will call others more experienced in.
Just looking your pictures now they uploaded and some them white pieces actually sticking up on their own which I wouldn't of thought mesamental filaments would do.
@Mibu @vetteguy53081 #reefsquad

 

[BurtMacklin]

Umm interesting .
Will call others more experienced in.
Just looking your pictures now they uploaded and some them white pieces actually sticking up on their own which I wouldn't of thought mesamental filaments would do.
@Mibu @vetteguy53081 #reefsquad

Thanks. And I think you mean mesenterial filaments. They didn't look like those to me, but I could be wrong.

 

[ying yang]

Thanks. And I think you mean mesenterial filaments. They didn't look like those to me, but I could be wrong.

Indeed ha ha mesa -MENTAL lol

 

[MaxTremors]

They are feather duster worms, sometimes called fan worms. They are harmless, though they can reproduce quickly and clog up pumps/equipment, but no need to remove them IMO.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I believe may be tube worms. Filaments are generally more stringy looking

 

[Goaway]

They are feather duster worms, sometimes called fan worms. They are harmless, though they can reproduce quickly and clog up pumps/equipment, but no need to remove them IMO.

2nd on this one. Feather worms have a lot of names, there are micro ones and large ones. These in the pictures never get that large. They keep small.

 

[ying yang]

They are feather duster worms, sometimes called fan worms. They are harmless, though they can reproduce quickly and clog up pumps/equipment, but no need to remove them IMO.

I believe may be tube worms. Filaments are generally more stringy looking

2nd on this one. Feather worms have a lot of names, there are micro ones and large ones. These in the pictures never get that large. They keep small.

Op states "white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."
I always thought feather dusters/ tube worms lived in a hard tube unless worm ditched it home and moved and then built another in different place.
With op saying flow,I took this as moves with the flow so not saying you wrong but having hard time understanding how the tubes would move with the flow ?
Or you think there all just the worm itself without its crown and without its tube.
Just very curious how all you 3 very experienced reefers ( much more so than me) all get to feather dusters from " white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Op states "white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."
I always thought feather dusters/ tube worms lived in a hard tube unless worm ditched it home and moved and then built another in different place.
With op saying flow,I took this as moves with the flow so not saying you wrong but having hard time understanding how the tubes would move with the flow ?
Or you think there all just the worm itself without its crown and without its tube.
Just very curious how all you 3 very experienced reefers ( much more so than me) all get to feather dusters from " white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."?

I missed the stringy as mentioned so would be filaments

 

[MaxTremors]

Op states "white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."
I always thought feather dusters/ tube worms lived in a hard tube unless worm ditched it home and moved and then built another in different place.
With op saying flow,I took this as moves with the flow so not saying you wrong but having hard time understanding how the tubes would move with the flow ?
Or you think there all just the worm itself without its crown and without its tube.
Just very curious how all you 3 very experienced reefers ( much more so than me) all get to feather dusters from " white, soft, flowy, filamentous strings all over."?

I’m just going off the photos, the ‘fans’ or crowns of these worms are soft, flowy, and somewhat filamentous. It very well could be mesenterial filaments, that wasn’t a bad guess, but I don’t see any in the photos (can be hard to see them out of water).

 

[ying yang]

Yeah photos do look like the tubes of tube/ fan worms but op description doesn't sound like it.
I guessed mesenterial filaments before seeing photos but seeing photo threw me totally off course.
I did think some kind of worm at first but thought a soft worm,would it just perch there waving in the flow .
I know I got lots spinibod worms ( probably spelt wrong again lol,them with 2 tentacles) but as I say got 2 tentacles sticking out.
Anyway I defer to you 3 as you got more experience each in your little finger than I have total ^_^

 

[Goaway]

Yeah photos do look like the tubes of tube/ fan worms but op description doesn't sound like it.
I guessed mesenterial filaments before seeing photos but seeing photo threw me totally off course.
I did think some kind of worm at first but thought a soft worm,would it just perch there waving in the flow .
I know I got lots spinibod worms ( probably spelt wrong again lol,them with 2 tentacles) but as I say got 2 tentacles sticking out.
Anyway I defer to you 3 as you got more experience each in your little finger than I have total ^_^

i get what you are saying. I assumed he meant the feathered crown of the worms. As they can range in color. White, green, gold, brown, red. Some are long and stringy looking.

An under water picture with circled area would be helpful.

like this guy, not my photo.