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Yesterday I noticed these two long white stringy things coming of the rock next to my zoanthids. There's two of them. They kind of look like a spiderweb. Allso, they seem to have gotten longer overnight, so I'm just wondering if I should be concerned. Sorry about the picture quality.

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Oooopppps, be very careful, don't touch it at the moment
It's Benthic technophobe
 
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This creature can for no time to overtake avery single place in your aquaria, feeding on phyto and zooplankton. It stay mainly on soft corals (leather corals) but also can be found on Gorgonians and LR as well.
Isn't damaging straight the corals (which is good) but soon can cover most of it and the tentacles aren't going to open.
 
Best way of getting rid of it: take turkey baster, and try to siphon it in (with)!
If isn't detaching from the surface, BLOW and suck, Blow and suck until it detach. You can't pick it up with tweezers or anything, it will split on 2 or more bits and every single one will regrow (like aiptasia)
 
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Look at the photos 1st and see how it look like in your tank, and look to suck with the baster all of it, don't let it split :)
Once you done it you are fine, but it's good to look after similar thing, usually they go few on a frag, so you may have and another one
 
Timbo13 said:
So I should just leave it and it'll be fine?
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Sorry, I mean isn't killing the corals, it's making them to starve to death when they can't open or not enough food in the system (which it will pick up constantly to multiply)
So take it out :)
Hope now is clear.
 
Whoa I think this is a comb jelly, a ctenphore. So cool! Have never seen one pop up as a hitchhiker in a reef tank, but certainly possible.
 
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Whoa I think this is a comb jelly, a ctenphore. So cool! Have never seen one pop up as a hitchhiker in a reef tank, but certainly possible.
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I got few from one LFS, 1st one really freak me out, because I saw only the string coming out from gorgonian and it was over 25 cm long with that strings on it..., later on I found another few on leather coral
 
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Timbo13 said:
I got rid of it last night. It was a purple color so it was really hard to find on the rocks. Did you get rid of yours?
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Yes, and I put them in a box with some water form the tank, and they survive near 5-6 months sometimes only changing the water :)
They day probably 2 months ago, but there was probably -7-8 from only 3. w/o food
 
I didn't take a photo after removing it. I just put it in the bin, but I took a photo of it just before I removed it. It's the purple thing on the zoa.

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Timbo13 said:
I didn't take a photo after removing it. I just put it in the bin, but I took a photo of it just before I removed it. It's the purple thing on the zoa.

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the one on my leather and the gorgonian was brownish to clear :) Very hard to see if it's over the coral or any surface at all :D
Good camouflage
 
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