Ahhhh! Favia sweeper tentacle!

[Turkey head]

Just got a new favia. It's doing well. Feeder tentacles coming out at mealtime and looking well. I had read that favia can have long sweepers but I misjudged! In the picture top center there's a bright white dot. That's the tip of the sweeper. Ended up moving the rock that has the sps hopefully far enough away.

 

[Katrina71]

Wow!

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

X2 that's crazy

 

[Lninwa]

I couldn't see it until I saw it, WOW

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Just cut it off you'll be good hahaha

 

[BoomCorals]

That's the longest I've ever seen! Also <insert dirty joke here?>

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Do the sweepers only come out at night? Favias are such an aggressive coral

 

[roberthu526]

Never seen anything like this...

 

[Turkey head]

They do come out at night but only about a third of that length that I've seen. The picture was taken in the evening maybe 6 or 7. Daylight in the real world and lights on in the tank.

 

[Docpayne82]

Mine is very similar looking and throws out feeding and sweeper tentacles anytime I drop food in the tank. It's insane how far they are and that's why it's a very isolated colony now[emoji23]

 

[Christian H]

Yea, just cut it off...

 

[Turkey head]

Regarding the question about it doing that in the daytime, here's a picture after feeding today. They mysis I fed the fish perked up its feeder tentacles. Then I target fed some marine snow and it went wild. Feeders and sweepers everywhere. Some short and several long like the first picture.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Regarding the question about it doing that in the daytime, here's a picture after feeding today. They mysis I fed the fish perked up its feeder tentacles. Then I target fed some marine snow and it went wild. Feeders and sweepers everywhere. Some short and several long like the first picture.

WOW!! That's some crazy tentacle action!