Finger leather little pieces around the tank

[Xxflounderxx]

I keep finding these little ball like pieces. They are the same color as my finger leather on the opposite side of the aquarium. Not sure what they are I have a mixed reef mostly LPS acans

 

[Sleeping Giant]

spawn?

 

[Xxflounderxx]

I'm not sure is that what it looks like?

 

[rhitee93]

You don't happen to have a decorator crab do you?

 

[Xxflounderxx]

I don't a bunch of emeralds (6) and sea urchins (9) my clown fish are constantly breeding behind the finger leather I would say it's about the size of a softball

 

[rhitee93]

I should have said why I asked that question: My decorator crab has a habit of cutting off bits of my GSP and dropping them elsewhere in the tank.

Beautiful leather, by the way. I need one of those

 

[Dburr1014]

I keep finding these little ball like pieces. They are the same color as my finger leather on the opposite side of the aquarium. Not sure what they are I have a mixed reef mostly LPS acans

It's dropping babies.
My devils hand used to do that all the time so I got rid of it.

 

[mfinn]

See if you can get a better picture of the small pieces.

 

[Dbichler]

If your talking about the little neon green ball looking things if you have torch’s which it looks like you do it’s probably some of the tips of those that have dropped off either by fish or getting bumped

 

[albano]

It's dropping babies.
My devils hand used to do that all the time so I got rid of it.

Same here, happens all the time with leathers!

 

[Xxflounderxx]

I took some more pictures and used the filter this time

 

[kzenoni]

I’ve got a large finger leather and a large devils hand that both drop pieces. Don’t be worried. I give them to other hobbyists who are glad to get them .

 

[mfinn]

I keep finding these little ball like pieces. They are the same color as my finger leather on the opposite side of the aquarium. Not sure what they are I have a mixed reef mostly LPS acans

Ok, here is my take. ( I know it don't mean diddly )

On all my neon/non neon green finger leathers, anytime a piece breaks off it's not little round balls. It's usually more of a cylinder shaped piece. Doesn't have to be very long. And usually you can look back at the mother piece and see tiny bits of rot ( usually black) where the pieces broke off.
I have found that in my tanks neon green leathers usually don't "broadcast spawn" ( for lack of a better term) like many devils hand and other brown leathers do.

I get it, everybody's tank conditions are different and I haven't seen every type of green leather there is, but I just haven't seen that type behaviour in my tanks.

What I think it is, is one or more of your euphyllia corals may be losing tips. I have seen that in my tanks before.

 

[John Biddle]

I have a green polyp toadstool and it has dropped probably 6 of these tiny green balls, each less than 1mm in size, over the last 3 weeks. This is a relatively small specimen I've only had a little over a month. Stem's about 2" and the cap is about 1" across. Seems very healthy, always has all of its polyps out when the lights are on.

I have not seen anywhere that looks like a place where these have come from, especially not any small black rot spot. Once, I did see what looked like an extremely thin white string or thread about 2 inches long with the green ball on one end and the other connected to the toadstool with the ball drifting wildly in the current and this disappeared in an hour or so, but didn't see it happen.

I have no euphyllia in my tank.

 

[Xxflounderxx]

It could be spawning?