What the heck is this?

[asylumdown]

I was just sitting here about to go to bed when I looked over at my dark tank (the nano) and realized the water was cloudy. Sometimes the one turbo snail that's in there spooges enough white goo to turn the water the colour of milk so I went to go see if it was doing it and I saw This floating in the water:


At first I thought it was a piece of packing peanut that fell off the bottom of my new refugium, but I looked closer and nope... I think it's an egg ball from something but I can't tell what, there's not a whole lot in the tank that could make a ball that size. I pulled it out to take the pic and it was like unset jello. the pic of it in my hand makes it look a weird colour, it was a light blue/green. When I dropped it back in, the cleaner shrimp ripped it open and even smaller blue balls poured out of it until the vortech turned the whole thing in to confetti.


Tank inhabitants:
- 3 inch across neon green long tentacle mushrooms
- 1.5 inch across brown and green longish tentacle mushrooms,
- a bunch of zoa frags
- an anemone I don't know the name of (pic included as well)
- a very small leather frag
- those carpet like polyps with purple bodies and bright green polyps (pic included)
- some small mushroom polyps
- purple clove colony.
- very small pulsing xenia

Any of those an obvious culprit? None of the zoas have mouths large enough to spit something like that out I don't think.

[Snappy]

The anemone is a Flower Rock Anemone and it is unlikey the culprit.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by Snappy

The anemone is a Flower Rock Anemone and it is unlikey the culprit.

I didn't think they reproduced that way, but it's the only thing with a mouth large enough to spit something like that out other than the mushrooms.

PS - Since I bought that nem from you (sorry I forgot it's name!) it's almost doubled in size. I love that thing more than anything. Closest thing to having a personality an invertebrate can have. It can EAT.

Think it would tolerate a second one of a different colour in the same 20 gallon tank?

Also, the water is still super cloudy, though all the little balls appear to have become zoa lunch.

[Unitt]

Is it bubble algae

[asylumdown]

nope, definitely not algae, definitely has an animal origin