Photo of my eggs - what are they?

[alan mcilvried]

Any idea what these might be? Have about 4 of these sacs on my live rock. About 1/2" in diameter. I am assuming they're egg sacs. (The white ball of "eggs" - hopefully you'll see it in the photo)

 

I started a new topic since it took me awhile to figure out how to post pictures. If that is bad board etiquette, please let me know.

 

Thank you to Steveoutlaw for helping with posting photos.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u42/alaninmd/DSC_0138.jpg

 

Al

[lanman]

Any idea what these might be? Have about 4 of these sacs on my live rock. About 1/2" in diameter. I am assuming they're egg sacs. (The white ball of "eggs" - hopefully you'll see it in the photo)

 

I started a new topic since it took me awhile to figure out how to post pictures. If that is bad board etiquette, please let me know.

 

Thank you to Steveoutlaw for helping with posting photos.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u42/alaninmd/DSC_0138.jpg

 

Al

These eggs?

 

I haven't a clue.

 

bob

[ReeferMan]

sponge

 

sponge

[lanman]

I was assuming these were the eggs:

 

bob

[jason the filter freak]

Clearly the african great plains *** mouse

[Prunfarm]

I second sponge.

[alan mcilvried]

So if they are sponges, should I be really happy or prepare for doom as they take over my tank? If I should be getting rid of them - how should I go about it? If not, I'll watch to see what happens.

 

(I was happy with the new anemones I had in my tank until I found out they were majanos and spawn cousins every 11 seconds - which they do by the way.)

 

Al

[YBeNormal]

Sponges are good.

[lanman]

So if they are sponges, should I be really happy or prepare for doom as they take over my tank? If I should be getting rid of them - how should I go about it? If not, I'll watch to see what happens.

 

(I was happy with the new anemones I had in my tank until I found out they were majanos and spawn cousins every 11 seconds - which they do by the way.)

 

Al

 

If it's a sponge, it should develop a 'hole' somewhere for water to flow through. I have lots of pink and yellow sponges in my nano.

 

bob

[Grav]

okay, so what is the photo posting trick?

 

I've taken some cool pics in the last few weeks.

[Rascal]

I agree that it is a type of sponge. I have several of these in my system. Every once in a while they will release a bunch of spores - which look like little tiny fuzzy balls. Pretty cool.

 

Sponges help you filter your water -- take in a lot of nutrients. This is a good thing. I guess majanos and ataipsa do too, but unlike the anenomes these don't harm anything and won't reproduce to the extent that they threaten to take over your tank.

Edited April 20, 2007 by Rascal

[treesprite]

sponge

[lanman]

okay, so what is the photo posting trick?

 

I've taken some cool pics in the last few weeks.

 

The 'trick' is to get your photos out on the web somewhere, and get a 'link' to them. You can upload some photos to the club website, apparently, but I didn't have much luck with that. Set up a FREE account on photobucket. I haven't used photobucket - but after you upload, you should have available (some services use a 'share' button) a link - like http//photobucket/21837463.jpg. Be sure to pick one with an http at the beginning, and a .jpg at the end. Then - if you want the picture to appear in your post, type (left square bracket)IMG(right square bracket) - and with NO spaces, put in your link. Then at the end, again with NOT spaces, put (left square bracket)/IMG(right square bracket). Then do a 'preview post' to make sure you didn't accidentally put in that picture of your wife that nobody was ever supposed to see.

 

Look at my post up above. Hit 'reply' - and it will show you in the quote the link to my photo.

 

and - VOILA! - a picture of the pink chalice I tried to frag for you, and the fungia frag I got from you in the lower right. Which is doing GREAT by the way! It has pink almost all the way around it now.

 

bob