Gooey bubble thing

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TracyFacey

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I came home to find this coming out of what I think is a tube worm in my tank. It looks like someone spit in my tank and it formed a perfectly round bubble of saliva on the tube that has white stringy legs coming out of it.

It looks like something that I would assume is bad but then again, I am always wrong. :) Thanks for your input.

Oh, and it's not really spit. :)
 

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Update... It's growing larger and pooping maybe? There is grey stuff on the sand bed that appears to have come out of the end.

The tank is a 3 gallon picotope. So this 3 inch tube and bubble is pretty big for it!

I did a water change and vacuumed the sand the day before this thing appeared. That was 2 days ago. Came home to find my tiny panda goby dead yesterday and this thing in there. Tested the nitrates and they were super high! As red as the test could get. Like 180!

Would this thing be the cause?
 

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I would scoop up the sand around it, maybe with a litter scoop or something. Just to find it.
 
High nitrates could have contributed to the goby death, or been caused by it if you didn't remove it quickly after death. I doubt the worm was the cause of either, though. It looks as though it is constructing its tube from bits of sand. No idea about the mucous bubble.
Before the death and high nitrates, when was the last time you tested?
 
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