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Originally posted by G.SMITHII
i always thought sweepers were just longer tentacles.
but then i saw this thing on animal planets blue planet series about corals, and how they like battle.
these sweepers look like really tiny spagetti, or like coral guts.
they only time i have seen these things in my tank was when i put TOOO much cockle on my baby scoly.
these things came out and dissolved the cockle flesh. (i hade to skim overtime that weekend)
but thats what a sweeper is right, not just long lookin clear feeding tentacles?
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What you're describing sounds like mesenterial fillaments - which
is the corals guts! Some species can pop these out through the side of the polyp even, and defend their perimeter that way. Somewhere around here (and in a Reefkeeping article) there's a picture of an acan lord (IIRC) with two big bundles of mesenteries attacking another coral.
Look here:
http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=418315 about halfway down.
and it's in the reefslides here
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/20...ides/index.php