White webbing-like substance in tank

Myka · #1 03-21-2018, 03:24 AM

I vote for Vernetid Snails. They send out webs like that when the tank is disturbed.

Frogger · #2 03-21-2018, 05:13 AM

I have vermetid snails in my tanks there are thousands of them every inch of may tank is covered with them. Each of my snails have a half a dozen or more on them. They have never produced webbing that has extended more than a few inches from their shells and never anywhere near that dense. Also the webbing is only visible when it traps food. His rock appears to be free of their shells. I can't see any on his rocks. So unless this is a different variety that is hiding in the back and produces enormous amounts of webbing I vote that it is not vermetid.

Myka · #3 03-21-2018, 03:21 PM

Frogger, do you realize that there is an air stone in the tank which makes it look like there is about 10x the amount of white strings?

tang daddy · #4 03-21-2018, 04:13 PM

Tug boat just syphon out when you do a wc, then see if it comes back right away or not, it doesn’t look like vermetid snails to me either as the web is so big. But I could be wrong...

If you syphon out the web maybe you can see the next time where the source is and if you do kill it with superglue filling it’s hole or plain drill the sucker out.

Frogger · #5 03-21-2018, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Myka

Frogger, do you realize that there is an air stone in the tank which makes it look like there is about 10x the amount of white strings?

Not sure I clearly see the airstone.

The amount of webbing looks to be a hundred times worse than I have ever seen. His webbing is growing up to the surface and along the surface in dense mats. And like I said I have thousands of these little monsters, every inch of rock in my tank has between 5 to 10 snails.

I have found that if I avoid heavy feeding with the pumps on they do not bother any of the corals in my tank at all. More unsightly then anything else.

BCTugboat · #6 03-21-2018, 08:44 PM

I looked around a little deeper and couldnt find anything that looked like a vermetid snail. Its a small tank so it cant be hiding THAT well. Ive read that it may be a type of bacterial bloom as well. My live rock was uncured, and my ammonia is around the first positive mark on the API saltwater test. I'm going to do a water change when I get home from work and see if that helps when I test tomorrow. I'll probably end up doing another 20% the day after tomorrow if its not better. I'm wondering if the ammonia spike, and possible subsequent bacterial mats, are due to my brittle star being unheard from in a few days. Will post updates later.

604reefer · #7 03-21-2018, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Frogger

Not sure I clearly see the airstone.

The amount of webbing looks to be a hundred times worse than I have ever seen. His webbing is growing up to the surface and along the surface in dense mats. And like I said I have thousands of these little monsters, every inch of rock in my tank has between 5 to 10 snails.

I have found that if I avoid heavy feeding with the pumps on they do not bother any of the corals in my tank at all. More unsightly then anything else.

I agree... I have some vermetid snails and never seen even a fraction of this amount of webbing.