HELP !!!!

[Poseidon87]

Hey MR,

I'm hoping someone can help. For some reason I have white sponge growing out of control in my tank. at first it wasn't too bad, but now its starting to overgrow some of my coral. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Maybe anything that eats this that's reef safe? Please help …….

Thank You,

 

[kevin315]

hydrogen peroxide dip probably can do the job
but i never bother to try and just frag whatever I can and threw the rock away

 

[bvega789]

Oh nah that looks wild! Did you try to remove it?

 

[MDreef]

What’s the texture like when you cut a piece of it? Does it smell foul? How fast does it spread? Sponges usually take a while to take over corals like that. Is the same growth happening in parts of your tank without corals or only on corals?

can you turn off the blue lights and post pics? There’s a chance it’s brown jelly disease but would need more info.

 

[pecan2phat]

I've had that invade my tank at one point. You can pick it off with tweezers but it does come back if there are any remnants left. Forget about the peroxide dip, even running tap water and a toothbrush doesn't get it all.
Definitely a type of nuisance sponge and not brown jelly.

 

[Jstabile316]

Don’t sponges die when exposed to air? Maybe take them out for a few min. U might have to deal with some nutrients from the die off tho.

 

[pecan2phat]

You would think and hope but not this type. I've tried exposing to air, running tap water, peroxide and even a rock beauty with no effect.

 

[Jstabile316]

Yeah but how do you know what he has in his tank is exactly the same you had in yours? It wouldn’t hurt to try.

 

[pecan2phat]

Agreed.

 

[homegrowncichlid]

Since sponges are filter feeders, your tank is doing very well, you can keep feather dusters or something else interesting. You'll need to starve it out, crystal clear water, no microscopic foods, but impractical to do, since you have fish.
As for biological control...hmm, seems once an angelfish discovers it, it'll pick it all off. hmm, but you don't want to wait.. I've never had to control sponges, I just let them grow, or physically remove them.

 

[Poseidon87]

Oh nah that looks wild! Did you try to remove it?

Not yet there just on my zoas at the moment and I'm afraid I will pulling out the zoas

 

[Poseidon87]

What’s the texture like when you cut a piece of it? Does it smell foul? How fast does it spread? Sponges usually take a while to take over corals like that. Is the same growth happening in parts of your tank without corals or only on corals?

can you turn off the blue lights and post pics? There’s a chance it’s brown jelly disease but would need more info.

those pics are literally the right corner, left corner, and the middle. Its only so far on the zoa rocks and that one zoa tile. as well as a sting behind the zoa tile pic on my rainbow acans. it wasn't so bad so I left it, but just progressively grew worse.

 

[Poseidon87]

I've had that invade my tank at one point. You can pick it off with tweezers but it does come back if there are any remnants left. Forget about the peroxide dip, even running tap water and a toothbrush doesn't get it all.
Definitely a type of nuisance sponge and not brown jelly.

But even on the zoas? im afraid ill be tearing up the zoas

 

[Poseidon87]

Thank you, for all the responses. I will try maybe taking them out of the tank for a while and attempting to pull it off?, and if that doesn't work maybe try peroxide, and as a last resort maybe try to see if I can put them in a buddies tank with an angel and pray they eat the sponges and not damage the corals.

On a side not I read somewhere that a certain type of nudibranch eats sponges. anyone hear of that ?

 

[kevin315]

Thank you, for all the responses. I will try maybe taking them out of the tank for a while and attempting to pull it off?, and if that doesn't work maybe try peroxide, and as a last resort maybe try to see if I can put them in a buddies tank with an angel and pray they eat the sponges and not damage the corals.

On a side not I read somewhere that a certain type of nudibranch eats sponges. anyone hear of that ?

be like me. eradicate all you can, chip the rock if you have to. its not worth the effort to go through and think to your self later "why didn't i just threw it out"

if angel eat sponge they will go after your zoas too lol

 

[Poseidon87]

be like me. eradicate all you can, chip the rock if you have to. its not worth the effort to go through and think to your self later "why didn't i just threw it out"

if angel eat sponge they will go after your zoas too lol

OH NO ?‍

 

[mellotang]

Are your RO filters and membrane good?

 

[Poseidon87]

they should

Are your RO filters and membrane good?

they're only about 8 months old but ill try it

 

[mellotang]

When’s last time You changed membrane?

 

[tsouth]

If you want to try exposing it to air, then consider injecting air into the sponge via syringe instead. Then you don't have to drain or pull items out of your tank. You could also try injecting h202 directly into it