Pink sponge irritating Mushrooms

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  1. reefmonkey

    reefmonkey Giant Squid

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    Has anyone heard of or had experience with 'nuisance' sponges? I have a rock with blue shrooms and a couple frilly greens that had some type of sponge on it. I say had because it irritated the largest blue and appeared to be killing it sp I removed it just a bit ago. Should have taken pics first d'oh.
    I'm not even positive it was sponge..but was textured spongy, had clear tubes for feeding or jetting water. It's also slimed like a softy when I began peeling it off the rock.
    Anyone have any ideas what it was or might have been?
     
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  3. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    May very well have been a sponge. There have been reports by aquarists of some species of sponges that are aggressive enough to do just what you described.
     
  4. greysoul

    greysoul Stylophora

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    only other thing that comes to my mind with that description is a tunicate (sea squirts) colony.
     
  5. Kelley11

    Kelley11 Peppermint Shrimp

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    Greysoul that Avatar is out of control man, I want to look away but I just cant :) SCARY!!!
     
  6. reefmonkey

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    Whatever it is it's growing back so it should be full enough to get a defined pic in the next few days. I must have p'd it off by scraping it because it was just in a semi circle at the shrooms base but now is growing completely around it.
     
  7. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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