id please

[jpkboca]

the white fuzzy thing in this pic.

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr19/jpkboca/DSC00969.jpg
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr19/jpkboca/DSC00968.jpg

thanks.
a mushroom??

[Bonneville08]

Looks like a sponge to me. Can't see any detail though.

[jpkboca]

being under the rock hard to get a good pic.

[Bonneville08]

Sorry, I'm not criticizing the photo, just qualifying my answer.

[ihavtats29]

when in dought pull it out.

[pagojoe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13568162#post13568162 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ihavtats29
when in dought pull it out.

I see this posted all the time. I wonder who was the original source of this advice? My guess is that it was someone who didn't know much about inverts. Whoever it was, I'll go ahead and contradict it with my own advice: If you are in doubt, try to identify it. If you can't ID it and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, leave it alone. If it's doing something harmful, like eating your fish or coral, or taking over your tank, then take it out.

By the way, the animal in the pic is either a sponge or an invertebrate that mimics a sponge, hard to be sure from the pic. I'd guess that it's actually a harmless sponge, though.

Cheers,




Don

[Bonneville08]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13568234#post13568234 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pagojoe
I see this posted all the time. I wonder who was the original source of this advice? My guess is that it was someone who didn't know much about inverts. Whoever it was, I'll go ahead and contradict it with my own advice: If you are in doubt, try to identify it. If you can't ID it and it doesn't seem to be hurting anything, leave it alone. If it's doing something harmful, like eating your fish or coral, or taking over your tank, then take it out.
Don
+1, thanks for the sanity check

[jpkboca]

thanks, I agree, take nothing out until your either sure its bad by id, or you see it doing harm.

If it's beneficial, you just lost something thats good for your tank.

[Eric the half-bee]

Sponge

[Deep_blue15]

Like the others said... it looks like a sponge.