Can anyone confirm if these are my hammer coral's sweepers?

[GCNanoReef]

Hey team,

I tried target feeding some reef roids to my hammer coral and came back 15 minutes later to this monstrosity!

Can anyone confirm if this is it's sweeper? I was pretty shocked I think it was around 9-10" long and terrifying my clowns.

After about another 10 minutes I squirted the colony with my pipette I used for target feeding and it pulled the sweeper back in so I'm thinking it might have thought it was being attacked instead of fed... Woops!

 

[rwreef]

Looks like a string or something not a sweeper imo.

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

Looks like a major poop. Sometimes they do that never seen one THAT big tho

 

[Hermie]

if that was a sweeper id cut it off lol!!

 

[LegendaryCG]

Looks like a major poop. Sometimes they do that never seen one THAT big tho

He was really backed up.

 

[GCNanoReef]

Looks like a major poop. Sometimes they do that never seen one THAT big tho

I think the most incredible part would be that he pulled it back in must be a shy pooper

 

[Hermie]

I think the most incredible part would be that he pulled it back in must be a shy pooper

actually that's how many corals capture food in the water column, they will expel a long mucus string/net and then bring it back in to digest whatever gets stuck in the mucus

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1976.tb02264.x

 

[GCNanoReef]

actually that's how many corals capture food in the water column, they will expel a long mucus string/net and then bring it back in to digest whatever gets stuck in the mucus

https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1976.tb02264.x

Thats amazing, I had no idea!

 

[mdb_talon]

That guy just showing off.