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Picked up this rock today and didn't knotice until after an hour in my tank. Can somebody tell me what the white areas are on this? Thanks in advance.

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Sponges good for tank take one and roll it into partials in your water and it'll seed the rest of your tank benefits both water quality and coral health
 

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Picked up this rock today and didn't knotice until after an hour in my tank. Can somebody tell me what the white areas are on this? Thanks in advance.

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Sponge growth. This can overtake the shrooms, so best bet (two choices):
Inject with syringe air, or vinegar into sponge
OR
Expose the sponge to air and in a container of tank water, scrape off.
 
Sponge growth. This can overtake the shrooms, so best bet (two choices):
Inject with syringe air, or vinegar into sponge
OR
Expose the sponge to air and in a container of tank water, scrape off.

Can you ID them for me?
Stop killing sponges they will almost certainly die off that rock and pop up somewhere else
Without intervention and if u really want to kill them just take the rock out of the water for 10 min or so shrooms will be fine sponges will mostly die they hate air

Iv had sponges in every tank for 12 years those are fine and they don't partericarily like light either and will grow in the dark better

The trouble ones are photosynthetic

Those are controlled with food


I can not ID them someone else may know what they are exactly
 
I don't find sponges to be invasive or dangerous to corals. You can always kill them later. Most just recede into the shadows or behind the rock where they do good things, if you don't have a fish that eats them.
 

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