Linwood
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I don't even know where to put this, as I have no idea what it is.
It could have been on the driftwood since I put it in the tank, and be something non-aquatic. But it was right near the glass and neither my wife nor I had seen it before. I have a bunch of old photos of the stump but none showing this particular root.
This is it as it first appeared, more or less (I had poked it once so the top is a bit smashed; previously it was rounded just like the bottom not broken off as it appears here):
For scale this is about 1/2" long and about 1/8th inch across. The colors are a bit exaggerated in the photo but approximately what the eye sees. It is on a stump with roots sticking out about 18" to 30" in diameter in a 220G tank.
Here is when I poked it with a stick, thinking it was an old bug attached in air, and just stuck.
It was stuck firmly to the stump on the bottom, and the shell (for want of a better word) hid soft, somewhat feathery stuff inside. Unfortunately I couldn't get the flash inside very well, but you can see some of what was inside at the bottom falling out.
This is another shot
that has a bit of false color (the prior is more accurate) but you can see a bit of the feathery stuff inside.
In the tank are: angelfish, plecos, one otto, small sailfin mollies, ramshorn snails and MTS. To my knowledge nothing else.
So... something old stuck to the wood we just never saw?
Some kind of egg case?
Something more interesting?
It could have been on the driftwood since I put it in the tank, and be something non-aquatic. But it was right near the glass and neither my wife nor I had seen it before. I have a bunch of old photos of the stump but none showing this particular root.
This is it as it first appeared, more or less (I had poked it once so the top is a bit smashed; previously it was rounded just like the bottom not broken off as it appears here):
For scale this is about 1/2" long and about 1/8th inch across. The colors are a bit exaggerated in the photo but approximately what the eye sees. It is on a stump with roots sticking out about 18" to 30" in diameter in a 220G tank.
Here is when I poked it with a stick, thinking it was an old bug attached in air, and just stuck.
It was stuck firmly to the stump on the bottom, and the shell (for want of a better word) hid soft, somewhat feathery stuff inside. Unfortunately I couldn't get the flash inside very well, but you can see some of what was inside at the bottom falling out.
This is another shot
that has a bit of false color (the prior is more accurate) but you can see a bit of the feathery stuff inside.
In the tank are: angelfish, plecos, one otto, small sailfin mollies, ramshorn snails and MTS. To my knowledge nothing else.
So... something old stuck to the wood we just never saw?
Some kind of egg case?
Something more interesting?
