Is this dying!??
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If you blow that stuff of, is there a mark? Or scar?
That imo would indicate tissue loss.
That imo would indicate tissue loss.
Turkey baster or gently swish water at it with your hand.
It should look just like the rest of the flesh f the sponge
That almost looks like a large vermatid snail hole.
Is this what a scar looks like?
When you feed do long strands come out ?
Interesting.
A really beautiful sponge btw.
If it's a worm, you'll probably see its head once in a while and you may even see it move.
Well that's good. From the sponges I've seen and have , the tissue will retract and dissolve. It'll come off like dust or shrivel like a hard prune and fall apart.
On the left side of this picture there is a long strand. That's would be very similar to a worms mucus string. It catches particles with it. We call them snot worms at our house.
Does this sponge look like it's dying or is it just covered in what is spit out earlier??? Please help!!
Probably not no. I don't see any irritation or decay on the sponge itself.
Some corals are effected by the snot and will lose flesh. Some not. So keep an eye out for that.
Ask as much as you need. And later if their are changes you can tag with an @saltyfilmfolks
It depends on the sponge in my experience.
I think you'll know it when you see it now.
I don't right now see any thing bad. If that changes ... dot dot dot. Lol.
I have purple plating sponges that faded and then crinkled and then lost flesh. I've had branching ones that were the dusty thing and lost flesh. Like dry household sponge that falls apart. Little bits of will come off.
So if it loses flesh like that, you'll see what I referred to as scarring. Dead flesh falling off leaving normal loking flesh under it. Us usually a different color.
It depends on the sponge in my experience.
I think you'll know it when you see it now.
I don't right now see any thing bad. If that changes ... dot dot dot. Lol.
I have purple plating sponges that faded and then crinkled and then lost flesh. I've had branching ones that were the dusty thing and lost flesh. Like dry household sponge that falls apart. Little bits of will come off.
So if it loses flesh like that, you'll see what I referred to as scarring. Dead flesh falling off leaving normal loking flesh under it. Us usually a different color.
So last night one of our smaller live rock somehow managed to fall on the sponge. No clue how that has NEVER happened before. So I noticed that the sponge looks almost like it got scraped I'm afraid that may end up hurting it more than it looks to be in the long run? Has anything like that happened to any of yours or do you know if this will kill it?
Sponges are pretty resilient to most things.
The only difficult with them usually comes from lack of foods and poor water quality.
If you have other sponges and such growing in spots your probably ok.
Fwiw. One f the meat things about sponges s how the reproduce. I've had sponges die and then they popupnmonths later in a different spot in the tank.
The goofy purple plating sponges I have died off to nothing but nubs. (This happens recently in my second tank and I had to remove them) then for nonapperant reason and I changed nothing. They grew back.
The only difficult with them usually comes from lack of foods and poor water quality.
If you have other sponges and such growing in spots your probably ok.
Fwiw. One f the meat things about sponges s how the reproduce. I've had sponges die and then they popupnmonths later in a different spot in the tank.
The goofy purple plating sponges I have died off to nothing but nubs. (This happens recently in my second tank and I had to remove them) then for nonapperant reason and I changed nothing. They grew back.
Your welcome!
Funny creatures.
Funny creatures.
EHerbert
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You might wanna lose that Asterina star at the bottom or at least remove it from that piece. The can be a problem sometimes. I recently had one on the main stalk of a Colt coral and did nothing. Three days later that area seemed to start rotting. I cut above that area to save the piece and glued it to another rock. The piece was saved but the base melted away.
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