Lobophytum Question

[ToonPack]

My Lobophytum pictured below, seems really happy/healthy and frankly it seems to get bigger every day. However, I have noticed that it extends long thread like "tentacles" (for want of a better word) which flow in the current and it reels them in much like my Spaghetti worms do.

Could anyone tell me what this behaviour is - i haven't read about it in articles I've read so for

Cheers

 

[mogurnda]

I'd be willing to bet it's not the leather, but a hitchhiking ctenophore. They live on the surface, or slightly embedded in the coral, and "fish" for particles using their long tentacles.

 

[ToonPack]

I'd be willing to bet it's not the leather, but a hitchhiking ctenophore. They live on the surface, or slightly embedded in the coral, and "fish" for particles using their long tentacles.

Thanks Mogurnda, I gave the tentacles a close inspection and could see the side branches mentioned in the article. YOu appear to be spot on.

Thanks,

happily they are harmless and hopefully wont reporduce like crazy and become a problem