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Thanks for sharing your wonderful web site and photos with us. I am trying to prove/disprove my new idea that safrey's "bryozoan challenge" under the catagory speculations, may be what i am dealing with. I have examined untold amounts of fiberballs with my proscope tv mmicroscope. I use "slopy slides".....clear packaging tape that i can bend and cut or move the wand microscope over...to see all sides of the fiberballs. What i think is happening, and this is because of the many stages of these fiberballs......i think the tiny hard sand like objects, or rectangular shapes, have ooze and particles of morgellons in them. They are broken off dry ooze, or callus, and land in the enviorment, and maybe also are in the enviorment(even outside)....blowing in the wind so to speak. I think the piece of "sand" has ooze or goo(try tapping on one under a scope and see how it seperates easily) in it that begins to act on the hard particles. The hard particles begin to grow. The cocoon stage looks like the particles have now become fibers inside, with the goo encasing and surrounding them. As the goo drys out, and or the fibers create too much pressure inside the cocoon.....the fibers break thru. Now, the fibers begin to expand and unravel. Some fiberballs are all white, or black, or many color combinations of red, amber, translucent, blue, tourquoise, white. Soon these UNRAVELED fibers from the fiberball can be found as single fibers, sometimes emmiting goo with red dots in them. I wrote about this in speculations under "hanging out inside the lesion". Would appreciate your opinions, and again thanks for all the work you have done and the great photos.