Blue Bottlebrush Acro

[reeftexas]

What is the white stringy stuff coming off my bottlebrush?

[Freed]

soap

[reeftexas]

Soap ?

[TomRep]

lmfao!! I think it is probably shedding some mucus. Is it new to the tank?
tom

[andrewr]

haha Freed

[reeftexas]

tank is 11months acro 3weeks

[reeftexas]

I thought this was to help beginners not to be made of

[mikeprep]

i seemed to have the same thing, but it dissapeared as quickly as it came

[Freed]

No one's making fun of you, just a play on words is all. Don't take stuff so seriously.

Probably just mucus. Alot of acros will slime when agitated, touched, chemicals added, salinity changes quickly. It's a defense mechanism.

[EdKruzel]

Most if not all acro's come from heavy current or high surge areas and as Freed put it, can produce thick coatings of mucus. You should have vigorous alternating current washing across your specimen to keep it clean as well as giving it the opportunity to feed. Eric Borneman once wrote on the effects of current and the requirements and force needed for some specimens of SPS to feed. What is known as a bottle brush acro is more dense and tighter in configuration of its branches and therefore tells us it grows in an area of higher flow. Something like a Birds Nest, Seriatopora hystrix has long thin branches and cannot take as heavy a surge. Then there are LPS with delicate billowing tissue that must be in much lower areas of current. By observing the build and growth pattern as well as the size of the oral disc/mouth of a coral, a hobbyist can determine tons of information as to placement/requirement of current and foods needed for most livestock kept.

Good Luck

[DgenR8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9783469#post9783469 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reeftexas
I thought this was to help beginners not to be made of


Give us a chance, RC is a friendly community. Perhaps you would have been more able to see the humor intended if Freed wasn't the first to reply to your question.
EdKruzel spelled out the answer to your question very well, and I just wanted to be sure that someone said
[welcome]

[Freed]

DgenR8, you making fun of me? :)

[DgenR8]

Gotta get my shots in while you're tied to the whippin' post! :D


I was actually pointing out that your reply was funny, just maybe not in the best place to see the humor.
Also consider the new reefer that was concerned for his coral. Had he already been assured that his coral was actually acting normally, he probably would have laughed at your comment.
I don't see any harm done or intended. I hope reeftexas sees that as well.

[Freed]

Hehe.