Weird strings on some colonies. Help.

[Reginald]

I have some strange strings coming from a few sps colonies of mines. Can anybody give me any advice on what I'm looking at. Some are from 1-5 inches and they seem to be shortening up as time goes on. It's been about 15 minutes since I first noticed them and they just popped up today. I've seen them before but never this long.

 

[tektite]

Mesenterial filaments. Did you feed anything in the tank before they appeared?

 

[Reginald]

I dosed fuel which is an amino acid supplement. Does that count?

 

[paintballer768]

Mine do this when I feed the tank. I suppose it would be possible they are responding to the amino

 

[Reginald]

Mines doesn't typically do it while feeding but usually during a water change.

 

[Masgatigata]

Same thing happens to my sps when I dose Fuel. I feel like it is just a feeding response, but to be on the safe side I lessened the dose. I cut back the does 50% from the recommended dose.

 

[Reginald]

Do they still do it with the half dosage?

 

[tektite]

It won't hurt the corals, just make sure the filaments don't hit other corals and you won't have problems.

 

[Reginald]

Ok cool. Thanks.

 

[Masgatigata]

No, they stopped with the lesser dose.