Reply With QuoteWhat fish are you keeping? Some marine fish sleep in a self made cacoon among the rocks... The web thing could be the remains of one of the cacoons... But then again, that was just a guess. We would know better if we have more information.
Hey, I moved some of my live rock around yesterday and I ended up with these spider web looking things all over. Maybe I'm just ignorant but I've never seen this. Does anybody know what's going on and if this is a problem or a normal occurance.
any comments would be appreciated
K
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What fish are you keeping? Some marine fish sleep in a self made cacoon among the rocks... The web thing could be the remains of one of the cacoons... But then again, that was just a guess. We would know better if we have more information.
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I'm keeping an aggressive marine tank. I have a rectangle trigger that is 4inches, a dwarf zebra lionfish 3inches, a one spot foxface 3inches, and a blue devil damsel thats almost 2inches (he's a beast). I have some other rock in the tank that is not live rock and nothing happened at all with them. It was only the "live rock".
temperature is 75
ph is 8.0
salinity is around 1.023
all the fish are healthy without problems and i even have a mushroom coral that sprung out of the live rock that is doing awesome and even reproducing.
It was when i picked up the live rock and shook it a little to get some of the aragonite substrate out of it (the trigger picks up the aragonite and blows it out on everything)
spider web looking stuff came out of all of the live rock.
The webs are from a snail. It lives in the rock and will be hard to spot, but if you trace the "cobwebs" back you will find a small thing living under a trap door. The webs are a sticky mucus it "spins" which traps food and can be drawn back to the snail. Can't remember the name, brain failure. Will post back when and if it comes to me!
It is a good thing to have as it is a detritivore.
HTH
thanks that helps alot. If you find out more about his i'd be interested to learn. If there's awebsite that would cover it or something.
I think the name for them are vermetid snails
Can refer to http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
for more info.
The pictures on that sight are exactly like what i have. I think you've solved my mystery!
thanks a bunch
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