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please ID - sponge?
I have a pest taking over several colonies of zoos. It is purple, and tends to throw out "shoots" which break off and find a new home. It spreads quickly, and is very invasive - it is even giving my 'island' of GSP a run for its money.
I think it may be some kind of sponge. It looks like it would tear away with ease - it is soft, but doesn't peel away easily, tearing and leaving you about .5 cm of stuff in the tweezers and leaving chunks behind which grow unhindered. I remembered reading somewhere to avoid letting air touch sponges (at least ones you want to keep), but I gave my one zoo colony a 20min breather, without fazing the pest. I gave another a freshwater dip, and swirled it for about 30 sec, but it still didn't bother the pest. What is it and how do I get rid of it? The purple stuff between and below polyps isn't their base, it is the pest. You can see it weaving in and out of the GSP polyps |
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well if it's a spunge put in direct light as spunges do not like direct light they wither and die. From my expierence.
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sponges
watch out with killing the sponge-i had some blue sponge die on me in a move and it wiped out everything in my holding tank-lost my harliqin tusk, rabbit fish,princess parrot,3 tomato clowns,gorgonians,and all my carnations
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This is why I said to move into direct light it will recede and die natural not all of a sudden. Some angels will eat sponges.
Bill |