Help with ID On sponge and slug thing!

kat 4

kat 4

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I Have a strange white cap starting on the branches of my orange sponges. Anyone heard of that? I can't tell if it is a disease or a good thing. Also found this weird little slug thing - white, about 1 inch long crawling along my glass of the aquarium. I thought it might be a bad bristleworm but it looks more like a slug. I never put it in the aquarium, that's for sure! Help? I can attach photos but not sure if it will work...it keeps saying my file is too large to attach.
 
sign guy

sign guy

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reduce the pic to 500 x 500 in photobuket or paint
the slug is probably a cucumber who hichiked on the lr
and as for as white on a sponge that usally means that air has touched it and it may be dieing
 
kat 4

kat 4

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It's a sponge that looks like a cactus and a couple of the branches have a white coating growing on them....I think I got the photo small enough...Here's the sponge and the weird thingy crawling up the glass...sorry it's blurry. I just got a new camera and haven't worked the bugs out yet!

 
fishgeek01

fishgeek01

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the sponge looks to me as if it is dying on the tips, is it possible that during a waterchange the tips became exposed to air, thats the only time i have ever seen sponges do that, as to the creepy crawly thing, i think it is a limpet or other similar seemingly shelless snail, truth is they have a shell covered by the body if i am not mistaken.
XDave, this isnt the thread i was referring to in this forum, but i think we got that one taken care of, so if you see this note, thanks for trying to find it, but i was not sure how to link to another thread like you said.
 
kat 4

kat 4

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Thanks - weird thing cause we know we haven't exposed the sponge to air at all. Our water change line is above it. Could it possibly be the sponge is growing and the white part will turn orange eventually? Just curious...
So the limpet or whatever doesn't look like a bad nuisance thing? Just checking..
 
xdave

xdave

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Looks like it has a fungus on it. Whats your nitrate reading?
Also
Tree sponges need 72-78 deg, and do best at the cooler end of that.
Heres what I'm guessing it's problem is: They do best in low lighting, if you have strong enough lighting to keep corals, the sponge is getting sunburn, same symptoms as air exposure.
 
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