Web-like slime?

d-dzel

d-dzel

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I found this web-like slim this morning on one of my rocks and it seemed like some sort of shell was wrapped inside it. Any ideas of what it may be? Good? Bad? What to do?
You can see part of the slime floating towards the left


I took it out and this is what was wrapped in the slime:
 
tang4me

tang4me

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Originally Posted by D-Dzel
http:///forum/post/3048043
I found this web-like slim this morning on one of my rocks and it seemed like some sort of shell was wrapped inside it. Any ideas of what it may be? Good? Bad? What to do?
You can see part of the slime floating towards the left


I took it out and this is what was wrapped in the slime:

I've seen that web like slime at times on my rocks in my tank. Never seen anything in it though. Mine didn't get quite that thick. I have no idea where it comes from??
 
d-dzel

d-dzel

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This web stuff has been showing up now. Gain this morning I saw the tank and it looked like an underwater spider web.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by D-Dzel
http:///forum/post/3048618
This web stuff has been showing up now. Gain this morning I saw the tank and it looked like an underwater spider web.
I think it is a type of snail, I can't spell the name. It is a nuisance but harmless web that they toss out to gather food. If you remove it, they grow back within the hour. They should starve themselves out soon. Mine disappeared on its own.
It used to get on my corals and drove me crazy. A word of advice on saltwater fish tanks...if you don't like something, wait a week...it will change.
 
d-dzel

d-dzel

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Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3048681
I think it is a type of snail, I can't spell the name. It is a nuisance but harmless web that they toss out to gather food. If you remove it, they grow back within the hour. They should starve themselves out soon. Mine disappeared on its own.
It used to get on my corals and drove me crazy. A word of advice on saltwater fish tanks...if you don't like something, wait a week...it will change.

I've been trying to find out and I was told they might be Vermetid snails, if those are the ones you mean. I found some snail thing in my tank a while ago and I took some pics. Back then I was told they were harmless, but now the web stuff is irritating my corals getting all over my zoas, duncans and gsp making them not open up anymore. Now I may need to hunt them down at night with a flash light:


 
flower

flower

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LOL hear is my problem...my eyes are bad so I don't know what the little varmits look like. I know the web, and what causes it but what the snail looks like
they looked like tubes to me.
What I am afraid of is that the snails you are removing may not be the pests, but the good guys. There are lots of critters that you want that live in your rock and come out at night. I know they bother the coral. Quit feeding the tank for a week. The coral won't care and the Vermetid snails (I love copy-paste! LOL) will starve and die out.
 
tang4me

tang4me

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Originally Posted by D-Dzel
http:///forum/post/3048683
I've been trying to find out and I was told they might be Vermetid snails, if those are the ones you mean. I found some snail thing in my tank a while ago and I took some pics. Back then I was told they were harmless, but now the web stuff is irritating my corals getting all over my zoas, duncans and gsp making them not open up anymore. Now I may need to hunt them down at night with a flash light:



Thanks, that solved my mystery. I was doing a water change yesterday and saw something that looked a lot like that. I had never seen it before.
 
d-dzel

d-dzel

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Originally Posted by TANG4me
http:///forum/post/3049016
Thanks, that solved my mystery. I was doing a water change yesterday and saw something that looked a lot like that. I had never seen it before.
Actually I was wrong. These in the last picture are called stomella or something I think, but the real culprits of the web slime thing are the vermedit snail and I found a bunch of them in my coral and rocks. Here's the pick. They're that tube looking thing. I could see the snail coming in and out of it while it released it's web(I stayed up all night with a flashlight lol).
So actually the snails in the previous pic are good snails to have in our tanks







A close up of one of them:
 
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