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[mattgreene22]

Any ideas what this is. I've got a smattering on my sand-bed, my rockwork...and even got it growing on the bottom of my torch's exposed skeleton. Please answer in the form of a question.

Pardon the photography skills...or lack there of.

The sandbed:

The sandbed closeup:

The rockwork:

The rockwork closeup:

Another rockwork close-up:

 

[skippy2]

Is that a type of sponge, Alex? I know it is. I have the same thing and Dr. Ron did an id for me.

 

[Krazy]

tube worm ?

mini feather duster ?

 

[masterqaz]

weird looking stuff, i wish i had interesting things like that on my sandbed.

 

[Reiner]

Looks like a face on the rock with a hand below that is giving you the thumbs up.

 

[mattgreene22]

Peggy, did Dr Ron say what kind of sponge? If you have the same thing, let me know what I'm dealing with here.

Thanks for all the replies so far.

 

[skippy2]

I honestly don't remember the name of the sponge. Mine eventually disappeared. You really don't need to worry about them but if you don't like them, I would suggest scraping them off.

 

[mattgreene22]

hmmmm....well I'm about to move and I'll be setting up my sump when I do. Maybe I'll just scrape them and drop them in the sump for a little extra biological filtration. They must be eating something...so if they're doing no harm I'm probably getting the better end of the deal.

 

[Tim the Stick]

Interesting, the exact same thing popped up in my algae tank (12 gallon nano for sea grass). I was thinking sponge as well, but couldn't guess honestly.

Tim

 

[PufferFish87]

its some sort of harmless sponge, if you dont like it.. just scrape it off like theo ther member said.

 

[mattgreene22]

i just wish i knew what it fed on....so i could know what i have a surplus of in my tank. these little sponges love me at the moment. i wonder what else i could have that might filter out the same things and look a little more attractive. ideas?

 

[chrisbenavides]

have the smae thing in my seahorse tank. I thought it was some sort of anemone. I got the rock out and burned away. Weeks later its back practically in the same place.

 

[mattgreene22]

chrisbenavides - ...so I should get used to looking at these in my tank...is that what you're telling me? ;-) BTW, I'll be a grad student as of the middle of August....any advice on how to keep money in the reefing fund?