Please help identify

[steiger33]

The new tank I am picking up has these white and black looking pipe things. I am not sure what it is. Can someone please help? Let me know if they are good or bad also.

 

[ReefMadScientist]

Interesting...are they stationary or do they move with the current?

 

[steiger33]

I think they move a little his power head isn't the best. I am tearing down the tank and moving it to my place tomorrow morning. I thought they might be some kind of sponge but not sure. The ones hidden in the rock work are solid white. Also if you zoom in there is all kinds of white little legs it looks like on the rock work that I am not sure what they are also

 

[steiger33]

Those white little legs look like small star fish legs to me but thought I would ask also

 

[steiger33]

Bump

 

[saltykisses]

Perhaps some kind of feather duster????

 

[Reefing Madness]

@Tahoe61

 

[cloak]

It's just a sponge of some sort. (Carteriospongia vermifera?) I have a bunch of these in my tank as well. The ones behind the rockwork that aren't getting any light tend to be white.
No worries.

 

[steiger33]

Thank you. Also you can see on the rocks all the little star fish legs. There are hundreds and hundreds of these little things. Is there something that will eat them? I think there is a point where there is to many stars.

 

[Tahoe61]

I am also inclined to think sponge, just a strange formation that would not be viable had the rock not been moved.

 

[steiger33]

I am also inclined to think sponge, just a strange formation that would not be viable had the rock not been moved.

Thank you. I pretty much got rid of most of it when I broken down the tank to move. Any ideas on what to do with all those d*** starfish?

Then when I went to reset up the tank I noticed that one of the plastic nuts on the bulk head was broken and no one in Reno carries bulk heads. So all the coral ended up in my other tank along with 8" Naso Tang (Blonde?) 6-7" Hippo Tang, 5" long nose copper butterfly.
Here are some pics

 

[Diesel]

Sponges, they can grow in big clusters behind rock.
Get a Angelfish of some kind and he/she will clean it up for you.
The legs you see are small brittle stars, wrasses will feast on these.

 

[steiger33]

Sponges, they can grow in big clusters behind rock.
Get a Angelfish of some kind and he/she will clean it up for you.
The legs you see are small brittle stars, wrasses will feast on these.

Thank you Diesel. What wrasse would you recommend that is good for a reef? I have never owned a wrasse before and know little about them.

 

[Diesel]

Thank you Diesel. What wrasse would you recommend that is good for a reef? I have never owned a wrasse before and know little about them.

Any kind, as long it's reef safe.
A good wrasse to start out with is a Mystery Wrasse or Yellowfin Flasher Wrasse they wouldn't break the bank either.
Remember most if not all wrasses are jumpers and many reefers did found there price winning flasher wrasses on the floor or they never found it again. yet till they broke down the tank and found him behind the stand where it been quiet for years maybe.

 

[Diesel]

Btw, that's a super nice Copperband you got.
I'm sure this size it will eat well for you?

 

[steiger33]

Btw, that's a super nice Copperband you got.
I'm sure this size it will eat well for you?

This guy here in Reno had all them plus a giant pajama Cardinal 3-4" all in a 120 gallon 4x2x2 tank. The guy paid someone $200 a month to take care of it and anything and everything that you could think of doing wrong was done. I am thankful I was able to get everything for $400 plus give them a bigger home. Soon to be even bigger. I'm going to be ditching the 150 gallon tank for a 250-300 gallon one to give them even more room.

Here is the cardinal with the copper butterfly for size comparison.

 

[steiger33]

Sorry for some reason the previous pics didn't load.

 

[joshkirkland83]

It's just a sponge of some sort. (Carteriospongia vermifera?) I have a bunch of these in my tank as well. The ones behind the rockwork that aren't getting any light tend to be white.
No worries.

+1

 

[saltykisses]

Quickly question will wrasses eat asterinas I have a puffer fish do not able to have harlequin shrimp[emoji52]

 

[Diesel]

Quickly question will wrasses eat asterinas I have a puffer fish do not able to have harlequin shrimp[emoji52]

Nope not on their menu.
Maybe for the not so reef safe wrasses but I can't back that up.