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[fishman77]

ok well i bought some real nice button polyps from the LFS and im looking at one of the polyps and it has like a black looking cucumber on it and it has black pimples.....i dont know if its a cucumber but when i squeezed it like white spores came out.not the white string like a cucumber

 

[effloresce]

its a nudibranch, and dont squesse them, are you crazy? slugs and cucs bpth release toxins into the water when dead or stressed(squezzed)

 

[fishman77]

you sure its a nudibranch? its not flat at all it actually look like a small suasage

 

[greatfullreefer]

Why the hell would you squeeze it? sounds like a cuke that expelled its internal organs. great job :nope:

 

[fishman77]

i didnt know....it wasnt like organs it was like white powder

 

[ophiura]

Impossible to know without a picture but in general the "squeezing" technique would be an very poor choice, for the future. Many animals, as noted, secrete toxins when stressed and that would most certainly be a stress. At the very least carefully remove it and place it in a container of water for a photo. Squeezing is bad...it may even kill a desirable animal.

 

[fishman77]

well since i squeezed it should i take the small rock its on and try to take it off?

 

[ophiura]

Is it still alive? Can you get a picture? If nothing has died yet, it probably isn't toxic enough to cause trouble. Just in the future, I would avoid the tendancy, however fun it may seem, to squeeze it