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01-09-2005, 12:33 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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|  Please Identify This:
Picked up a 4lb piece of live rock yesterday,on it is this orange stuff.I thought it was dead but it may not be.
It was the way it looks in this picture when i bought it but this morning it had a white slime coat over it.
it is hard to the touch.i also brushed off the slim coat.was that a good or bad thing to do.
I forget the type of live rock it is but it began with a
"I" if this helps.
Any Idea?
cant find any pictures on the web of it.
The Orange Area is a little bigger than a Half Dollar
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[img ]http://www.3reef.com/uploads/Birdsig.jpg[/img]&&75Gal,Jebo 180 skimmer,20Gal Sump/Refuge,cascade 1000 filter filled with cured liverock.&&2clowns,1yellow tang,1 niger trigger,1firefish,1scarlet cleaner,1 emerald crab,,3feather dusters,8green?????,3 blue legged hermit crabs,30 Yellow polyps and one Striped mushroom.30lbs Of live rock so far.
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01-09-2005, 01:32 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Mar 2004
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 | Re: Please Identify This:
I would say it is a sponge But I couldn't tell you What sponge it is. 
Some sponges will die after being exposed to air. John | |
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01-09-2005, 03:27 PM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Please Identify This:
Well what ever it is i hope it is alive | |
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01-09-2005, 03:43 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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| Re: Please Identify This:
Keep your eye on it and hit it with an easy blast of water from a baster every now and then. If it stays alive you're in business. If it doesn't... Use a net and throw it out. Hopefully it will stay alive.
Jim
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. | |
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01-09-2005, 03:44 PM
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#5 (permalink)
| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Please Identify This:
a net will not get it off if it is dead.it would have to be scraped or chisled off, it is hard. | |
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01-09-2005, 04:42 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Please Identify This:
Since i took that picture areas of the orange stuff have started getting that milky white coating.this is within in the last 2 hours | |
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01-09-2005, 06:13 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vacaville Age: 24
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| Re: Please Identify This:
That is because the area it lived in previously had lower light, hence the lack of photosynthetic life and blaech white apperance of the area around the sponge.... Will die quickly if face up especially if you have halides. _________ Yes, tiny has an 11" legspan......  | |
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01-10-2005, 03:07 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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| Re: Please Identify This:
I dont think it is bleaching.it is like a slimey film
that can be brushed off.
anyone ever run into a sponge that forms a slim coat? | |
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