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04/22/2009, 01:52 PM
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Growth on emerald crab? pics
Anyone seen this before?
  
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04/22/2009, 02:10 PM
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it looks like a filter sponge of some sort... strangest spot i have seen one.
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04/22/2009, 02:23 PM
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Haha that's hilarious, he's covered in them.
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04/22/2009, 02:25 PM
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Maybe it's common. I have a couple of emerald crabs with sponge growing on them as well. Probably picked a piece up somewhere in the rocks and it just grew. Looks like yours picked up a pineapple sponge.
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04/22/2009, 02:47 PM
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I have a few that look like balls of lint crawling around my tank... They keep my tank clean, but I am assuming that they cant reach their back to get the goodies off of themselves .
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04/22/2009, 06:03 PM
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it is a cuetip sponge just a filter feeder, you can pluck them off really easily if you want but it is kinda funny
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04/23/2009, 12:59 AM
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+1 on the cuetip sponge
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04/23/2009, 01:53 AM
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Bizzar!
I thought they might be some sort of parasite, there is even a small one starting to grow on its leg. At this rate its going to end up a walking sponge, the poor fella! |
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04/23/2009, 09:05 AM
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Next molt, he'll be clean and clear, so no worries about him getting overrun with sponges. That's kind of cool, actually!
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04/23/2009, 10:18 AM
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 Very cool!Scypha sponge aka Q-tip sponge or pineapple sponge. http://www.melevsreef.com/id/scypha.html
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04/28/2009, 06:55 AM
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The fella has been AWOL for three days now
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