Filter Feeders on SPS?

[Creetin]

i saw some on my sps, they are very fine hairlike tentacles that grab and open and grab.... i think they are some kind of filter feeders cos they luk really different from the sps polyps...

its my guess.... anybody can clarify on this?

[DeepBlue]

they can grab things like GP and rotifiers

[Creetin]

so those are SPS polyps? or filter feeder using SPS as host? or filter feeder thats part of the SPS?

[DeepBlue]

I have heard a reefer telling me that those are filter feeders...and they could ultimately kill the coral...

NOT SURE IT IS TRUE. I do have a few acro that has this thing...hope it is not that bad...

[FuEl]

It's a burrowing crustacean...something like a barnacle if you know what I mean..I doubt they will harm the coral much as they only burrow into the calcium carbonate skeleton. They're something like christmas tree worms that burrow into porites.

[Creetin]

It's a burrowing crustacean...something like a barnacle if you know what I mean..I doubt they will harm the coral much as they only burrow into the calcium carbonate skeleton. They're something like christmas tree worms that burrow into porites.

hmmm. tat makes sense... barnacles... ya come to tink of it, it does luk like barnacles...

in the words of captain haddock - 'Blistering Barnacles!"