Growing on Rock

[Hornet]

Can you guys/ladies tell me what this is growing on the live rock in my tank? They are kinda tubelike but hard. If I hit them with a stick breaks off.

 

[yote]

Vermetid snail tubes.
Well actually their a worm,but,,,
Fairly harmless unless their webs cause your corals to stay closed.

 

[Hornet]

Thanks Yote!

My daughter has been asking me about these things for weeks. I can finally tell her what they are.

 

[dcantucson]

I have two of those. They are very hardy and their web is very annoying.

 

[Hornet]

I've also seen some of the webs around the tank and I agree they are kinda annoying. I've been adding Selcon to the tank and I saw another user on the internet questioning if the use of it was the reason for the explosion of Vermetid snail tubes in the tank. I'm going to lay off of the Selcon for awhile and see if they start disappearing.

 

[yote]

If the webs are bothering corals,just put a drop of super glue jail on the opening of the tube.

 

[Hornet]

Thanks for the tip. My tank is still rather boring right now so nothing for it to interfere with.

 

[mng777777]

If the webs are bothering corals,just put a drop of super glue jail on the opening of the tube.

Good advice Yote!

 

[daugherty]

i have hundreds if not almost a thousand of those tubes all over my rock

 

[mng777777]

between these and the droids, you are going to need a lot of superglue!

 

[dcantucson]

James,
What is the status of your droids, anyways?

 

[tankedchemist]

These are not the droids you are looking for....

sorry. Couldn't help myself.