White stringy stuff on frogspawn

i have had this coral in me tank for 3 months now and I noticed that today it a a white kind of pimple puss like stringy stuff coming frome where the polyps meet the base. I touched it and it went back into the base with thge actual frogspawn. What is it? Is it new heads or what?
Thanks in advance

 

Sweeper tentacle or excreting waste is my guess.

 

The stuff is curly and some of it was stuck to the base, or the stony part of the coral. Im not sure if I should be worried or not.:-/

 

sounds like sweeper tentacles

 

I would agree with sweepers. Did anything irritate it? That's when my frogspawn's usually come out.

 

if thay retracted there sweepers out looking for food thay can get quite long ive herd up to 12 inches make shure thay cant get ahold of nearby inhabitance

 

weird, ive never seen sweepers on mine. is that bad?

 

Not something I would be worried about som3 reef3r, sometimes it happens at night. Could be a chemical cue from another coral that sets it off. I have had euphyllia that I never witnessed sweeper tentacles on and some that had them almost constantly. This is why it's so important to consider placement with regard to euphyllia, because you never know.

 

well hopefully i dont get those monsterous 12" sweepers lol its weird how after i got rid of my toadstool, almost all my corals seem happier. is this what your talking about as far as chemical cues?

 

There is some debate regarding the actual toxicity of allopathic toxins and Sacrophytons. But it makes sense that one corals would produce a chemical that would cause the withdrawal or inhibit the growth of nearby corals. At least it makes sense to me.

I have had acropora inches apart and for some reason they would start sending out defensive mesenterial filiments. This would lead me to believe that chemoreceptors played a part seeing as the corals were inches away from each other.

And yes my corals always did better in a smaller tank if no leathers were present.