Ok I need some help here!!!!! Please!!!

[Ryan Hurrell]

Im not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to somethings but I am very smart, mechanically inclined, have common sense, and street smarts just in this case not so much.

Sooo I pulled some live rock from my tank which Is loaded with star polyps. Only because I was doing some interior decorating. Well I found 2 things on this rock I have no idea what the hell they are.

Now to the special part instead of taking pics right away I decided to scrape it all off. SMFH.

Anyways what uses slime and sand to build tunnels and I want to say bores holes through live rock and at the surface of the rock makes a soft tube.

I was able to get a few pics but not what I should of.

After all that I’m wondering if I should not put the rock back or if I’m good to go.

 

[etmanning1]

IMO, as long as everything in the tank is doing well I’ll kinda just assume anything “weird” that I find in my tank is some sort of beneficial hitchhiker and I don’t remove it. I’m a fan of increased biodiversity in our tanks.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[hcker99]

More than likely the sand tunnels were done by peanut worms (ok for the tank). The slimy stuff looks like encrusting tunicates.

 

[iTzJu]

More than likely the sand tunnels were done by peanut worms (ok for the tank). The slimy stuff looks like encrusting tunicates.

I agree with Mark, nothing to worry IMHO, unless you start notice corals missing or distressed constantly, a mixutre of life like that is always welcomed.

 

[Ryan Hurrell]

Thanks guys

 

[Ryan Hurrell]

As you can see the rock is healthy