PDA

View Full Version : What lays eggs that look like tiny pineapples?


AnnetteG
04-09-2008, 12:33 PM
I have all these tiny pineapple shaped somethings all over the inside of the sump and refugium. I think they must be eggs because they're all the same shape and are just on the glass and some are stuck on the sides of the pump, some on the blue sponge, but there aren't really any that I've noticed in the main tank.

Any guesses? Sorry no pics, but my camera won't do pictures of things this small. They are creamy white and pineapple shaped even to having a little tuft of something coming out of the end not stuck to the glass.

Thanks!

Reefscape
04-09-2008, 12:40 PM
Check out the sponges on this weblink....Sounds like a pineapple sponge to me...

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchsponge.html
(about the only decent pic i could find of one...Second picture in, top row)

AnnetteG
04-09-2008, 1:44 PM
You're right, that's totally what it looks like! I didn't expect them to spread all over the glass, but I'm sure it came in from TBS. Are they good for anything?

rxdoc_85
04-09-2008, 2:17 PM
i have A TON of them popping up all over my tank. it think they're pretty cool. i'm taking their populatino explosion that i'm doing something right :)

Reefscape
04-09-2008, 2:28 PM
They are just harlmess filter feeders that will come and go depending on nutrient levels...

AnnetteG
04-09-2008, 3:59 PM
kewl :dance:

The Zigman
04-09-2008, 4:13 PM
is this what a pineapple sponge looks like? :D