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04-22-2003, 12:28 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2003
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What are these hairballs I'm finding?
Ok I'm guessing these are sponges of some sort but I'm finding these masses that look like a wet dirty pile of short hair and dust, kinda looks like something you'd wind up with after sweeping the floor =P. I've got 1 big clump on a hunk of LR I just found today and I occasionaly see some of it just laying around on the bottom of the tank, any ideas? Should I be concerned about this?
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04-22-2003, 09:34 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
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I'm trying to picture your description in my mind's eye to see if that matches up with anything I've had in my tanks. Not coming up with anything, but I haven't had much caffeine yet!
Could be aliens. 
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04-22-2003, 09:53 AM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Darn I hate it when there is no pic 
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04-22-2003, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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pix please...
I have some dirty hairballs under the tank, but I think it is where the cat has started shedding the winter coat... 
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04-22-2003, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: PA
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Hair balls? Is there an associated choking sound coming from your cat?
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04-22-2003, 12:35 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: West Lafayette, IN
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Aliens ... hmmmm perhaps!!! No pix, the only digi cam I have can't take good enough pics. Oh the grey hairball stuff is squishy btw, I think I'm just gonna ignore it for now and write it off as the ugliest sponge I've ever seen =P
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04-22-2003, 01:00 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
Join Date: Jun 2002
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one of Jay's aliens! i would keep an eye on them. i heard they eat the tips off of starfish arms. 
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04-22-2003, 01:02 PM
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Humm... the hairballs my cat throws up are squishy too. |
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04-22-2003, 01:11 PM
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ouch
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04-22-2003, 09:51 PM
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04-22-2003, 10:13 PM
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Ughhh.. Dinoflagelettes..
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What do they taste like???
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