I.D Please

[BigScott]

the first is the big green one.. an the second is just to the right of the green with pink arms branchin out its a menance..joes juice an bright lights arent killin it..{ the pink one}ive had the green one for almost as long as ive had my tank,..thanks for lookin..

scott



http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f174/bigscott/greensponge.jpg

 

[bigB]

its hard to tell. is it one of those bright kinda white things that grow of your rock?

 

[BigScott]

no bil its kind of a light yellow green , that piece is like 6 inches long 4 inches across an about the same thickness..ill try an get a better pic of the other..an its pink.. with branching arms..it starts off like a sponge, then it grows like a vine or smothing choking out my zoas..i blasted it with joes juics again to see what happens..

SCOTT

 

[MyMonkey]

Big thing looks like a sponge. The other thing is spooky.

 

[BigScott]

it looks peacefull enough, till it ataches to your zoas..then it chokes them out..


scott

 

[Russ Braaten]

I don't think joe's juice will affect it if it is a sponge. Scraping it will usually slow it down a lot. It will also let you get a better look at it from out of the water. Are you feeding phyto in your tank? My white sponges turned light green when I started doing that.

 

[BigScott]

yes im feeding but just started doing it again..i like the green one , its the pink on im trying to get fid of..lol

SCOTT

 

[TimV]

Can you blow it off the rock with a turkey baster? It is difficult to tell what the one on the right is because the picture is blurry, but it looks a lot like Cyanobacterial mats.

T

 

[BigScott]

its stuck on thier like a sponge..but it woant budge.. ive scraped it several times but it keeps commin back..ILL post a better pic soon..


SCOTT

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

They both look like sponges. A microscopic analysis of the spicules (structure spikes) is about the only way to truly ID it. But with that aside, I think that they will be just fine. They don't seem to be fire sponges, or you would have known by now. If you want to feed it, dosing phytoplankton is great. If you want to get rid of it, you can take it out of the water and take a hair dryer to it, inject it with nasty stuff (Joes Juice, Vinegar, Calcium Additives, etc), and a variety of other things. Really though, I don't think it will be a problem.

 

[BigScott]

Travis the pinks ones branches break off an float arroung untill
it catches on smothing else.. if ya got zoas it WILL choke them out..an joes juice will kill it


scott