help identify something on my hairy mushroom

[AJ1080]

Was just checking out the tank and noticed this on my mushroom. Can anyone help me understand what it is? Is it something I need to worry about/

It looks like a bunch of little white sacs just hanging on. Hopefully this pic is good. Ill keep on working on getting a better one.

Thank you,

 

[curt]

I don't think it's anything to worry about. The only thing that would bother a mushroom is brown flat worms. I can't make out what that is. Wait for Matt to show up. He's great at I'ding things.

 

[The_Codfather]

A good guess would be Snail eggs

 

[MadReefer]

Hard to see them in the pic but I was thinking snail eggs or micro feather dusters.

 

[The_Codfather]

I could be wrong but i don't think feather dusters grow on soft tissue

 

[AJ1080]

Well I guess it was nothing to worry about. It looks like there gone now.

I couldnt find a picture of snail eggs that looked like it but it did look like some kind of egg structure. Either way its gone now and something probably made a snack of it. The Hermits have been hanging around up there. Thanks for the help.

 

[Fish Brain]

What you see in that picture is not something that is on the mushroom, but rather something inside the mushroom. That squiggly white stuff is the defensive/digestive system of the mushroom. I can't remember what that is called but Mushrooms will "spill their guts" when they feel threatened.

The first time I saw this I freaked out, I was fragging a rock with shrooms and this stuff started coming out of the mouth and sides of one of the mushrooms. I thought I killed it, but I left it in the tank and it was fine the next day.

You said there were hermits around, it might have been the hermits that triggered the defense.

 

[AJ1080]

Brian,

Thanks for the help! I just got some other people that posted the same thing. Definatly good to know!