Cool Green Fluorescent Sponge!

[jill]

I was poking around today in my refugium and found this amazingly beautiful sponge hiding. So I put him where I can watch him from now on.

Anyone have any idea what he is or where he might have come from?

 

[Peppie]

From your fuge?????
Oh yea its a sponge!!!!

LOL.. seriously, It is a very nice color. but I think it will do better with low, low lite.

 

[jrgilles]

They usually like the underside of rocks. Very low light

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[jill]

Thanks - I agree about the light so I did move him under some rocks but still in a place I can see him.

 

[eww]

he

Is it a he cause it is a sponge?:wink: Becca

 

[SaltwaterNoobs]

Wow!! At first I thought it was a slightly bleached-out mushroom What a neat looking sponge!

I have a huge patch of fluorescent green sponge in my tank, too, but it looks a little different from yours:

Funny thing is that I've heard these types of sponges prefer little light, yet this stuff is FLOURISHING and is located about 4 inches from the surface, getting lots of light. Go figure!

 

[user 26995]

I dont know Jill, it looks like a bleached out mushroom to me too.

SaltwaterNoobs...I have yellow sponge just about like yours that is on top of a rock under MH's. Just appeared there recently.

 

[jill]

I dont know Jill, it looks like a bleached out mushroom to me too.


SaltwaterNoobs...I have yellow sponge just about like yours that is on top of a rock under MH's. Just appeared there recently.

Nope - it is a sponge. The photo doesn't do the color, shape or texture justice. It is thick and "spongey" and has at least 7 ostia (pores). Mushrooms only have one center mouth.

And I have some of those cool sponges like yours too Noobs. They are really pretty.

 

[Holygral]

keep in mind that sponges can not ever be exposed to air or they are goners

 

[Chichas01]

I have a large black sponge in my display and chunks in my fuge. I've even taken parts of it and placed on another rock and it's now growing there too. Sponges are definitely one of the coolest things I enjoy about saltwater. Also, air exposure can harm them, but I've exposed all of mine briefly at some point or another and they never died. Not sure what constitutes 'too much air'.

 

[SaltwaterNoobs]

Also, air exposure can harm them, but I've exposed all of mine briefly at some point or another and they never died. Not sure what constitutes 'too much air'.

Yeah, same here. In fact, that fluorescent green sponge that's pictured was exposed to air when I was moving the frag from the bag to my tank. It's obviously been doing well, considering it's taken over half the GSP plug I also had pineapple sponges on a media basket in my old 29, and when I would take the basket out to clean, the sponges were exposed to air, for a longer period of time even, and they never died. I have to wonder if it is specific types of sponges that will die immediately once exposed, rather than ALL sponges...

 

[user 26995]

I like sponges too. They really add some great colors and textures. I have exposed some to air too, briefly. Didn't seem to harm them. I have some rock with little white ball sponges on them that I have pulled out and left sit for a minute and they are all still alive.
There are some sponges, such as the tree and branching type, that yes they are goners if exposed even briefly.

 

[jill]

I'm careful with my sponges too but once I got some live rock from another reefer and just wrapped in wet newspaper for the two hour trip home.

Within a week I noticed a really pretty red encrusting sponge growing on the rock. It must have been some hardly type. I had it for a year in my nano but unfortunately it finally died. I screwed up my water parameters.