Share pictures of your sponges.

musicsmaker · #1 04/01/2004, 08:40 PM

I'll start us off with a hitchhiker sponge that came out of nowhere. I like it.

Frick-n-Frags · #2 04/02/2004, 08:38 AM

Here is one just smaller than a tennis ball way in the murky back of the tank:

musicsmaker · #3 04/02/2004, 09:21 AM

Cool. Did it just grow there?

gcvt · #4 04/02/2004, 10:04 AM

Slatts · #5 04/02/2004, 10:30 AM

My brother-in-law wouldn't pose so....

scuba4ever · #6 04/02/2004, 10:32 AM

Hey Gvct, What is that?...I have that growing in my tank and I have been trying to identify it for weeks....

gcvt · #7 04/02/2004, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by scuba4ever
Hey Gvct, What is that?...I have that growing in my tank and I have been trying to identify it for weeks....

I have no idea. I just recently found it when I was re-aquascaping my tank and turned over that rock...which is about the size of a large canteloupe.

Frick-n-Frags · #8 04/02/2004, 12:33 PM

I just noticed mine like a week ago when I had to look between my tanks at some powerhead wiring. I was going to redo two powerheads that I put below the rocks, but I've decided to leave them be so I don't kill the sponge.

hwynboy · #9 04/02/2004, 12:34 PM

My Emperor is drooling over these pictures I pasted them on the tank facing in.

Frick-n-Frags · #10 04/02/2004, 12:44 PM

That's good.

Reminds me of the old joke: why does the certain eastern european dog have a smashed face? From chasing parked cars!

I just remembered, I have a sponge growing on a giant Valonia. I'll take a pic!

The Valonia is about 1.5" tall and that sponge has cemented a snail shell and a couple of smaller Valonias together. Now it looks like a cartoon octopus(remember squiddley Diddley?

)

I was doing Valonia patrol the other day and was going to remove this one, but I put it back where it was. I only set it out in the open for the pic. you totally cannot see the sponge where it is normally positioned only the top of the Valonia, which is where it has now been returned.

scuba4ever · #11 04/02/2004, 12:50 PM

this is what mine looks like

Is that the same thing?

Frick-n-Frags · #12 04/02/2004, 01:07 PM

Your sponge looks like my white Squiddley Diddley sponge but I am clueless in the fine art of sponge ID.

BTW, if you want to in-line a pic use the "img" tag. surround the following statement in a set of "<" ">" brackets and only put a space after "img"

img src="http://www.wherever.com/whateverpic.jpg"

FWIW, if you look closely at the big Valonia you can clearly see the reflection of the 2 VHO actinic tubes and the two LOA 65W PC worklights that are lighting this half of the aquarium. I have some massive Montiporas growing under this setup, and you can see the color is pretty nice. I have a 250w Iwasaki lighting the other half of the tank(currently off) and the brightness is pretty close 250w Iwasaki vs 2 65w LOA PC's, FWIW

finding nemo · #13 04/02/2004, 01:16 PM

An orange sponge that come in some caulerpa, its not attached to anything, just sitting on the sand. Sure is growing allot tho.

brutuscz · #14 04/02/2004, 01:24 PM

here's mine!!!

scbauer · #15 04/02/2004, 01:46 PM

I tried so hard to get a picture of sponge bob up, but the picture was too big, and I don't have any editing software on my PC at work... looks like you beat me to it, brutuscz

-Scott

bluereefs · #16 04/02/2004, 02:01 PM

First posted sponge and other similar are clathrina sp sponges,they grow mostly in shaded area,that is why you find them when you remove or turn over the rocks.They come in varius colours,white and yellow most common.

sorenb · #17 04/02/2004, 02:05 PM

Great thread,

Here is a couple of mine.

First a white sponge, which is not so white, but somewhat dirty. About an inch across:

The orange splotches are also sponge. I think they came after I had a big orange sponge in my tank for a year. The large finger sponge was not doing so good though.

Trying desperately to get the orange into focus:

sorenb

bluereefs · #18 04/02/2004, 02:11 PM

Colospongia sp,blue photosyntetic sponge,very easy

Frick-n-Frags · #19 04/02/2004, 02:14 PM

Bluereeefs, I never get tired of seeing your tanks. There is just so much life in there.

bluereefs · #20 04/02/2004, 02:22 PM

Funy,I have same opinion about your tank pictures

,I just dont like rocks and corals only,that is not natural IMO.

musicsmaker · #21 04/02/2004, 04:13 PM

Finding nemo, that one looks like some that I have growing amongst some zoanthid polyps. It scared me at first, because I thought it was going to kill my zoa's. I finally gave up trying to kill it, and it hasn't really hurt anything. Does yours send out long strands of itself as if to try and attach and grow in other places?

racrumrine · #22 04/02/2004, 07:48 PM

This link will help you in identification

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/sponges.htm

Best of luck,

Roy

racrumrine · #23 04/02/2004, 07:50 PM

Here's another thread with more pictures

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...=purple+sponge

I have a purple sponge. Wife will have to show me how to use the digital camera.

Best of luck,

Roy

phishlet · #24 04/02/2004, 08:05 PM

My blue sponge

gcvt · #25 04/02/2004, 11:33 PM

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Originally posted by phishlet
My blue sponge

Hey phishlet - how long have you had that one? I can't seem to keep those alive for more than about 8-10 months