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Belegul
06/09/2011, 06:49 AM
So, found this guy on a piece of live rock when I got it home from my LFS. He's about 3cm x 2cm, and appears flat on the rock. As you can see, he's bright red and has little white spikes all over him. Went to melevsreef.com and tried to ID him; best I can tell it looks like a flattened/squished red bulb sponge. Any thoughts?



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hopefully the link works.

Belegul
06/09/2011, 06:50 AM
Sorry for the size of the pic! At least it works :spin2:

Next time I'll try and resize the pic.

crazy4salt
06/09/2011, 06:59 AM
It looks like a sponge, it may/may not survive. They like somewhat shaded areas IME.

Belegul
06/09/2011, 07:03 AM
To give it every chance I can, should I reposition it so it is in a shaded spot in my aquarium then? I'm assuming, in it's current state, it won't be too thrilled to move on it's own?

Sugar Magnolia
06/09/2011, 07:10 AM
Sponges don't move. ;) You can turn the rock over so the sponge isn't in direct light.

Belegul
06/09/2011, 07:17 AM
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/redball_sponge.html

Not to be contrarian, but melev's reef seems to disagree? I'm new to the hobby, so I try to go by trusted sources for my information and, by all accounts, melevsreef is a trusted site...

Sugar Magnolia
06/09/2011, 08:06 AM
Well, that's very interesting! None of mine have moved that i'm aware of. :lol:

Belegul
06/09/2011, 08:22 AM
I know! I thought it was interesting as well. In my limited experience (a few dozen dives, and reading about my reef aquarium) nothing I ever read was that they were mobile with those neat little appendages. I thought it was quite interesting!

jlong11
06/09/2011, 08:33 AM
there are lots of different type of sponges while some and only few can move around like that at a very slow rate most just encrust rock on the bottoms where it is dark and not really any lighting it is not very common unless special ordered to get those type of sponge the one were talking about is not going to move it will probly just fade away with time in the light if its positioned in a nice non lit spot u will see nice growth over time and will start covering the bottom of rocks sponge come in all types of color ive seen alot