Silly String - What in the World is it?

[shelbygs]

I came home to find this silly string looking thing in the tank. It has been a few days and it has not grown or moved. Any ideas what it is?

 

[2quills]

Some type of spaghetti worm perhaps?

 

[smallreef]

if its not actual silly string or spaghetti its spaghetti worms..kinda gross but yeah...

 

[valentino82602]

Ahhh the great surprises we find when we come home to see our tanks

 

[shelbygs]

Well, after some additional research I believe it might be related to a Sea Hare I introduced to the tank to rid it of Hair Algae, by the way they do a great job. I was told that it most likely a some type of nesting used for eggs.. However, since there is no mate for the little ugly guy... there will be no little Sea Hares.
It has been a few days and the ball of silly string has lost a lot of its color.. it is not the florescent green as when it first arrived.

 

[smallreef]

UH im gonna say NO.... the stringy stuff sea hares leave behind actually fall into pieces after a day or so... the worms do not...

 

[snakeblitz33]

i know what it is!

 

[spanko]

Sea hare eggs will have striations in them like this,

Take a closer look at yours to verify.

 

[meowzer]

HEY....I have a few small strips of the bottom left looking pic in my tank...and YES I hacve a seahare.....HMMMM.....I thought it was snail eggs tho
interesting

 

[snakeblitz33]

Fixed my post...