Are All These Sponges Normal?

Reinhold · 08-12-2001, 02:56 PM

In the past couple of weeks, I've noticed the proliferation of hundreds of little white sponges on my LR, mostly in shaded areas. Is this good, bad, or neutral?

As usual, everytime I try to take a photo, Killer Hwkfish comes and sits in front of the camera. The sponges are the little white tufts in the center of the photo.

ranaman · 08-12-2001, 04:23 PM

My SWAG is they are tunicates or sea squirts. Like sponges these eat bacteria, algae, and detritis so they do act as a filter improving water qualitiy.

Aragorn · 08-12-2001, 05:55 PM

Yep,

It's cool. They're good guys. Got tons of 'em in my refugium.

Firefish · 08-13-2001, 06:28 AM

Are these the things that strech out at night like a string and bob around, then as soon as you put a flash light on them they coil up...?
If so, I have tons of them too, and they move from rock to rock!

Reinhold · 08-13-2001, 06:41 AM

These don't move or change shape. They look like the cotton tip of a Q-Tip, with a small tuft at the distal end. Each one is a discrete organism.

They don't look like any Sea Squirts I've ever seen. They're "cottony" in texture and grow to about 1 cm in size.

SCETT316 · 08-13-2001, 08:59 AM

Not to long ago I was also wondering, when I discovered tons of them in my overflows, and quite of few in my LR. From what I have read, and been told. there good.

08-12-2001, 02:56 PM	#1
Reinhold Mayor Join Date: May 2001 Location: USA Posts: 941	Are All These Sponges Normal? In the past couple of weeks, I've noticed the proliferation of hundreds of little white sponges on my LR, mostly in shaded areas. Is this good, bad, or neutral? As usual, everytime I try to take a photo, Killer Hwkfish comes and sits in front of the camera. The sponges are the little white tufts in the center of the photo.

08-12-2001, 04:23 PM	#2
ranaman Council Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Imperial Polk County, Fl Posts: 432	My SWAG is they are tunicates or sea squirts. Like sponges these eat bacteria, algae, and detritis so they do act as a filter improving water qualitiy. __________________ "The octopus notices the little cowries."

08-12-2001, 05:55 PM	#3
Aragorn Governor Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pine Grove, CA USA Posts: 2,064	Yep, It's cool. They're good guys. Got tons of 'em in my refugium. __________________ "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

08-13-2001, 06:28 AM	#4
Firefish Mayor Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Douglas, Ma Posts: 775	Are these the things that strech out at night like a string and bob around, then as soon as you put a flash light on them they coil up...? If so, I have tons of them too, and they move from rock to rock! __________________ In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -- Thomas Jefferson

08-13-2001, 08:59 AM	#6
SCETT316 Mayor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: New Jersey Posts: 700	Not to long ago I was also wondering, when I discovered tons of them in my overflows, and quite of few in my LR. From what I have read, and been told. there good. __________________ Susan

08-13-2001, 06:41 AM	#5
Reinhold Mayor Join Date: May 2001 Location: USA Posts: 941	These don't move or change shape. They look like the cotton tip of a Q-Tip, with a small tuft at the distal end. Each one is a discrete organism. They don't look like any Sea Squirts I've ever seen. They're "cottony" in texture and grow to about 1 cm in size.

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