Rico's Reef

[Gecko]

Rico,
How’s your porites coral, colt coral and sponge? I hope they’re recovering from whatever is making them ill.

[tich]

Hey guy sending first pic, hope is good

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by Gecko

Rico,
How’s your porites coral, colt coral and sponge? I hope they’re recovering from whatever is making them ill.

Colt still hasnt opened yet. I think its toast. I put it in QT. Only time will tell.

The tree sponge fell apart. Literally. Luckily I had split it a while back and the remaining frag is doing exceptionally well. Has actually grown about 3/8" since the fragging.

Porites are doing great. I moved the LR with them down to the bottom of the tank and turned off one set of 10k pc's.(the only thing I could find about bleached out corals was too much light.) Seems to have been what they needed.

Originally Posted by tich

Hey guy sending first pic, hope is good

I llike the pic. Since you uploaded the pic to RAG you can simply paste the onsite link(from the particular gallery - bb code) It will have the IMG tags already in place.

[ricosuave]

Since we are in central florida I thought I would jump over to St.Petes to see the area where we will be collecting with Cuddle.

While walking on the beach at low tide I noticed a pink "thing" just under the surface of the water. Of course being curious I touched it and it felt kinda spongy. I thought what if I could get a small piece, I could take it back for my tank. Low and behold the sponge came up quite easily along with a chunk of LR.

I couldnt leave this poor creature to die so I bagged him up, along with about 10 gal of NSW so I could do wc's until I can get home. I know most will probably die off cause it got exposed to air but I think all in all there is alot still quite healthy.
Any ideas what it might be? I'm thinking some sort of sponge but not sure.

[ricosuave]

I have some hi res pics if someone wants to see more detail up close.

[ChuckG]

From viewing the first picture I would have to say it's definately the rare "Pregnant Wife Sponge".

It's my understanding that anyone that brings one of these into their household will be with child within 9 months.

[Gecko]

Reco,
I'm it was too much light, sorry for the colt coral but you never know. What in Gods creation is that thing? It looks like a tongue attached to a rock.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by ChuckG

From viewing the first picture I would have to say it's definately the rare "Pregnant Wife Sponge".

It's my understanding that anyone that brings one of these into their household will be with child within 9 months.

Say it isn't so!!!! I've already got three!!! I think it is dying. It stinks really bad and I have changed the water twice daily. Maybe I'll just cut it off and keep the rock.

Originally Posted by gecko

Reco,
I'm it was too much light, sorry for the colt coral but you never know. What in Gods creation is that thing? It looks like a tongue attached to a rock.

I'm still learning. I guess the colt was my latest victim.

It does look like a big cows tongue, doesn't it?

[Thomas]

I agree with Chuck. But further research shows that it's the wife pregnant with twins sponge. If you kill it you will have triplets.

[ricosuave]

wiseguys, huh? I think I'm going to throw it back into the ocean and pray it's not like stephen king's monkee....