Octo and Hammer Skeleton turning Orange?

[Aeiyr]

As title states, woke up and while my lights were off I noticed the skeleton on my newer octospawn has a few orange spots on it, and my hammer beside it has a large portion of the lower skeleton that is orange. I guess I never noticed it because very soon after my lights kick on they puff up very nicely and you can't see any of the base.

I should not that the orange color is only on the dead portion of skeleton, none of it is on the new growth/living skeletal deposit.

Pics included.

 

[T-J]

Looks like a sponge to me. I have orange sponge in my tank as well.

 

[Aeiyr]

Looks like a sponge to me. I have orange sponge in my tank as well.

Would it be something to worry about or can I leave it?

 

[vetteguy53081]

As title states, woke up and while my lights were off I noticed the skeleton on my newer octospawn has a few orange spots on it, and my hammer beside it has a large portion of the lower skeleton that is orange. I guess I never noticed it because very soon after my lights kick on they puff up very nicely and you can't see any of the base.

I should not that the orange color is only on the dead portion of skeleton, none of it is on the new growth/living skeletal deposit.

Pics included.

Agree its sponge and it will continue to creep upwards and reach the polyps in time. Can be carefully scraped off in a container of tank water with edge of a paring knife

 

[Aeiyr]

Agree its sponge and it will continue to creep upwards and reach the polyps in time. Can be carefully scraped off in a container of tank water with edge of a paring knife

Alright, I'll try to scrape it off later today. When I noticed it I picked at it with some frag tweezers and it didn't feel soft at all. It just felt like the surrounding skeleton, I assume that's typical of a sponge? Never dealt with one before.

 

[CBonito]

Alright, I'll try to scrape it off later today. When I noticed it I picked at it with some frag tweezers and it didn't feel soft at all. It just felt like the surrounding skeleton, I assume that's typical of a sponge? Never dealt with one before.

It might be a bit of a pain growing near corals, but having sponge in your tank is actually a good thing.
Filter feeding organisms are good stuff.

I used to have a ton of it in my 90 gallon with a miracle mud refugium.
I think I'm going to do it again on my new system, only smaller.

 

[Aeiyr]

It might be a bit of a pain growing near corals, but having sponge in your tank is actually a good thing.
Filter feeding organisms are good stuff.

I used to have a ton of it in my 90 gallon with a miracle mud refugium.
I think I'm going to do it again on my new system, only smaller.

Yknow, I haven't scraped them off yet (I'm lazy during the week sometimes), but I was just wondering that. Would it be worth keeping one of them after I scrape it off (in another container, spores = yikes) and trying to stick it to a rock for a free spongey boi?