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crazzbaby
 
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Ok heres the deal... I have these little white sponges growing everywhere... inside my pumps and skimmers and powerheads... no kidding... 1000's of them...I'm pretty sure they are Q tip sponges altho I did find them in my Marine Invert book they call them Calcareous sponges... anywho I'm not freaking because they are there... they have been... but I just noticede they are inside my powerheads and pumps... how do I get rid of them?? Worried that they are gonna fry them up... I was gonna give them a piping hot bath in the sink...would that work?? And why do I have soooooo many of these things... I hope its a good thing!! some of them are over an inch long....
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Fish are friends not food...
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woodycb
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They come and go, they are filter feeders. Try soaking your pumps in some white distilled vinegar, that usually cleans them up for me.
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Man I love this hobby.
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KingDiamond
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crazzbaby said :
Ok heres the deal... I have these little white sponges growing everywhere... inside my pumps and skimmers and powerheads... no kidding... 1000's of them...I'm pretty sure they are Q tip sponges altho I did find them in my Marine Invert book they call them Calcareous sponges... anywho I'm not freaking because they are there... they have been... but I just noticede they are inside my powerheads and pumps... how do I get rid of them?? Worried that they are gonna fry them up... I was gonna give them a piping hot bath in the sink...would that work?? And why do I have soooooo many of these things... I hope its a good thing!! some of them are over an inch long....
They are calcareous sponges. The calcium level must be good in your tank. Eventually, they will meet a population equilibrium.
Brad
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin
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hc8719
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I'd like to take some if you come to the next meeting
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"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission" -Neil Kendall
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