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 Topic: Identification help please
Posted: February 10 2006 at 4:59pm |
Ok I'm not sure what's going on as this will be the 4th time i've tried to post and it hasn't worked. I'm going to try to post my pics in a second. Ok I bought a ricordia rock from pet factory last week and there is something covering about 70% of the rock that is red/brown/yellow with spikes. It looks like something is growning out of the spikes, and occassionaly I see a white film coming out of some of them. Could these be some kind of worms? There are also 2 tube worms that have feather (some kind of feather duster?) that are on the rock, but are not connected to the other part. Any help would be great as I haven't be able to figure it out on my own!
Thanks again!
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Posted: February 10 2006 at 5:01pm |
ok here are the pictures
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Posted: February 10 2006 at 5:22pm |
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Yep - a feather duster worm. I think the brown stuff is a type of sponge.
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Posted: February 10 2006 at 5:27pm |
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could the sponge hurt anything? should I just leave it, or try to get rid of it?
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Posted: February 10 2006 at 9:04pm |
The red brown stuff looks like it could even be green star polyps...
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Posted: February 10 2006 at 10:42pm |
Sponge is an extrememely useful and helpful organism. It is a great part of filtration.
It makes me kind of chuckle to read your words of concern. You may soon come to realize that 99.9% of the stuff that grows in our reef aquariums makes for a healthy happy tank.
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