Starving,annoyed or Rogaine?

[marie]

I was scraping the glass on the tank this morning and looked over and saw this. This coral often looks "hairy" but never to this extreme :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/sept23004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/sept23003.jpg

[christyf5]

Wow serious Rogaine! That looks so awesome! Likely he's annoyed though, I can't remember what those stringy bits are called.

[Aquattro]

Think they're called slime. Acros do that sometimes if you pull them out of water, or do a large water change that ticks them off a bit. Not a concern as long as it stops shortly.

[marie]

Think they're called slime. Acros do that sometimes if you pull them out of water, or do a large water change that ticks them off a bit. Not a concern as long as it stops shortly.
They're mesenterials filaments I believe... definitely not slime anyway :biggrin:

[Aquattro]

They're mesenterials filaments I believe... definitely not slime anyway :biggrin:

Ah, ya, if it doesn't blow loose in the current, then mesenterials. Pic looks like slime after moving a coral out of water. The particulate from scraping has probably annoyed it. Definately not Rogaine...

[marie]

... Definately not Rogaine...

Which is a good thing. I'd hate to have a coral that was so vain, it was worrying about going bald :razz:

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Which is a good thing. I'd hate to have a coral that was so vain, it was worrying about going bald :razz:

Agreed. Baldness is a gift....or that's what I try to tell myself.

Cool photo, though. I've never seen that before!