Filmy substance all over my leather - other unknown...

[jgoal55]

Hi all,

I noticed this white filmy substance all over my leather coral tonight. The coral has been in my tank since Tuesday morning and this is the first I see of it....

I sucked a little bit off it with a turkey baster thinking that it was just junk and thats when I notcied that it was all over him....it does come off but I didnt want to suck it up without knowing what it is first. Any ideas?

One other thing I noticed in my tank was a tentacle that came out of the bottom of my live rock.....it looked like a squid tentacle but it had suckers all the way around. The color was white, cludy, not quite see through but almost....I watched it for about 1/2 hour and it was the onlytentacle to ever come out.....It moved around a lot, found a mysis shrimp, ate it and the tentacle got fat.....any ideas what thiis might be?

Thanks,
Jorge

 

[burdundi]

It sounds like your leather is just sliming/sheding. They tend to do that from time to time. Nothing to worry about.


The tentacle thing sounds like a peanut worm. If that's the case, then its comepletely harmless.

Take a look here and see if you can find it:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/crawls.html">http://www.melevsreef.com/id/crawls.html</a>

My guess is: [IMG]http://www.melevsreef.com/id/peanut_worm.html">http://www.melevsreef.com/id/peanut_worm.html</a>

Hope that helps..

Andy

 

[simon_kruger]

Agree. Leather sloathing is normal. You can use a tooth brush to wipe it clean and it should come back better than ever.

 

[glxtrix]

fwiw i wouldnt use a toothbrush on the leather, I think its too rough and might damage some of the tissue if you dont use it correctly.

 

[jgoal55]

Ive just let the leather be but it has all gone away yet....but some of it has....

and the worm....i guess it was a peanut worm from everything ive read...pretty cool...

thaks.