How to Remove a sponge ?? Pics - Page 2

JY13131 · 01-26-2007, 02:51 PM

Hey! Maybe we can take it to the bar tonight and kill the sponge for kicks!!

dobejazz · 01-29-2007, 11:05 PM

I left the rock out of water for 20-30 minutes on Saturday

Then put it back in the 24g It seems to have suffered no ill effects maybe it's not a sponge? Below are pics from just now

Geoff · 01-30-2007, 09:56 AM

how squishy is it? if it is rubbery and not squishy than it may not be a sponge. if this is the case than see if it peels off. looking at it a bit closer it does not have as many pores as i thought earlier, so it might not be a sponge.

G~

tashier · 01-30-2007, 09:58 AM

If it isn't a sponge then any suggestion as to what else it could be?

dobejazz · 01-30-2007, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Geoff

how squishy is it? if it is rubbery and not squishy than it may not be a sponge. if this is the case than see if it peels off. looking at it a bit closer it does not have as many pores as i thought earlier, so it might not be a sponge.

G~

I know it's slimy. Checking rubbery vs squishy will be a job for my husband I'll have him check tonite

VWD · 01-30-2007, 10:10 AM

That don't look like a sponge to me,

dobejazz · 01-30-2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by VWD

That don't look like a sponge to me,

What does it look like then

I don't like it it needs to go away

VWD · 01-30-2007, 10:43 AM

looks like some kind of generic coral, one that speads like a gps, just not pretty but a coral. Wehave some brown stuff like that growing in a tank at the store.

I say pull it off, You may be able to break it off

ChrisPrusha · 01-30-2007, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by VWD

looks like some kind of generic coral, one that speads like a gps, just not pretty but a coral.

Agreed. Some sort of mat.

fishinchick · 01-30-2007, 06:33 PM

It's a chicken liver sponge. Normally that stuff is what you find as black nasty stinky patches on really super fresh live rock. This bit managed to make it. Normally it doesnt.

in a way you are lucky for that reason.

however it's ugly as sin and you can just peel it off like you do an orange. Be careful not to pull any of the clove polyps off. If you do, just plug them into another rock somewhere and they'll grow.

Or leave it. It doesnt matter. I think the stuff is ugly as snot.

dobejazz · 01-30-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by fishinchick

It's a chicken liver sponge. Normally that stuff is what you find as black nasty stinky patches on really super fresh live rock. This bit managed to make it. Normally it doesnt.

in a way you are lucky for that reason.

however it's ugly as sin and you can just peel it off like you do an orange. Be careful not to pull any of the clove polyps off. If you do, just plug them into another rock somewhere and they'll grow.

Or leave it. It doesnt matter. I think the stuff is ugly as snot.

Thanks Adrienne I agree it's ugly and I'd like it gone. Sounds like a project for my Husband

fishinchick · 01-30-2007, 08:33 PM

Yeah you'll get goo under your nails.

If I had a buck for every time I had gunk under my nails that took forever to scrub out.... ugh.

skeety · 02-02-2007, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by dobejazz

I don't like it it needs to go away

hahahhahaha...this made me laugh, not sure why.

Have you thought about just getting the polyps you want OFF this piece, and then just tossin' the whole thing?

i.e. Get the xenia to transfer to higher ground, and pluck the zoa's off that you want. The rest of the rock can go in the trash!!

VWD · 02-02-2007, 10:07 AM

Is it off Yet!!

dobejazz · 02-02-2007, 10:13 AM

Not yet I'm lazy

I moved it to the 24g so I don't see it as much

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