Tube like growth on chalice skeleton?

[musaabi]

So I’m doing some maintenance today and I was moving my chalice when I noticed this growth on it. I’ve seen these guys on a rock I have in my sump that has fan worms on it so I figured they were baby worms until I saw them on the skeleton of my chalice. One was heavily infested while the others had only a few on them. I tried searching and couldn’t get anything on it so uploading them here.
They’re soft and scrape off pretty easily and I scraped them off the few corals I have in the sand but will need a more thorough cleaning. I figured if it’s on the Skelton than they can’t be good for the coral. I haven’t seen any damage to the chalice and it extends every night as well. I also dipped all my corals so not sure where it could have came from unless it survived the dip. Also there’s no movement from them when I was scrapping them off or touching.

 

[Saltyreef]

Hard to tell but may be sponges or tunicates.
Best to scrape anything off the chalice plug anyways as it will be easily irritated then mount it onto a bigger plug or glue it to a rock. Its ready to encrust :)

 

[vetteguy53081]

Appears to be sponge. While you have frag out, you can scrape it off with a paring knife and rinse in a cup of tank water and return coral to the tank

 

[Blenny1988]

I have heard a few conflicting stories about sponges and have a good amount of them in my tank some people say there harmless and are a good indication of a healthy system and others say that they can leak toxins in to your system and tbh i dont know what is right lol could someone help to clarify this please??

Thanks in advance guys :cool:

 

[musaabi]

I have heard a few conflicting stories about sponges and have a good amount of them in my tank some people say there harmless and are a good indication of a healthy system and others say that they can leak toxins in to your system and tbh i dont know what is right lol could someone help to clarify this please??

Thanks in advance guys :cool:

Healthy system? My tank has been up since feb and was just battling a Dino issue from having too clean of a tank. They did seem to flourish at that point however so maybe my tank matured rather quickly?

 

[CWoods]

Healthy system? My tank has been up since feb and was just battling a Dino issue from having too clean of a tank. They did seem to flourish at that point however so maybe my tank matured rather quickly?

They look like pineapple sponges to me. Harmless but sometimes can upset certain corals. I had thousands of them about a year ago and now I can't find a single one.

 

[musaabi]

They look like pineapple sponges to me. Harmless but sometimes can upset certain corals. I had thousands of them about a year ago and now I can't find a single one.

Any natural way of getting rid of them?

 

[CWoods]

Any natural way of getting rid of them?

Not that I know of. In every tank I've had them in their population explodes then collapses. I just picked them off if they were bothering a coral and left the ones growing else where. They filter the water column so they never bothered me

 

[Blenny1988]

So can be a nuisance then. I shall keep a close eye on my corals and be prepared to pick off a few if needs be lol thanks for the info guys :) also out of interest what salt mix dose everyone use?

 

[musaabi]

So can be a nuisance then. I shall keep a close eye on my corals and be prepared to pick off a few if needs be lol thanks for the info guys :) also out of interest what salt mix dose everyone use?

I’m using tropic marine pro

 

[Blenny1988]

I’m using tropic marine pro

Thanks for your reply :) I am currently using Iquatics its not a bad salt mix and not overly expensive either,