Freshwater Sponges

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Jack Dempsey
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Anyone else have any experience with these? I got some on some driftwood I collected. When I got it home I rinsed a lot of it off with the hose because I didn't realize what it was, but its growing back and spreading to other pieces of driftwood as well. It's in my native tank, which stays around 68*-72*F. The colonies mostly grow where there is good flow, here is a pic...

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Ya looks like some kind of mold or something. I would take it out and boil it if you can... or at least scrub it with really hot water and put it in a bucket to see if its gonna grow back. Never know what ill effects it could have on your fish, especially if they try and munch on it.
 
biguebs said:
Ya looks like some kind of mold or something. I would take it out and boil it if you can... or at least scrub it with really hot water and put it in a bucket to see if its gonna grow back. Never know what ill effects it could have on your fish, especially if they try and munch on it.
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Your fish are gonna 'trip balls'!! lol

It does look like mold to me too, try posting the picture on the freshwater diseases section and see if there is a positive ID.

I pulled a piece of driftwood from my pond the other day, wife got me this piece from the ocean last week, I pulled it out and there was a crap load of clear egg sacs looking things on all the places that touched the water... Hope the lack of salt killed whatever it was...If not, whatever killed my 5 feeders in there should kill off anything else alive the pond and I'll boil the wood later...
 
Pull the wood out and scrub and boil if possible. Looks like fungus not sponge to me.
 
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