Freshwater sponges
Can you give me any information on how I would be able to keep a freshwater
sponge in an aquarium? Also any additional info you might know would be
appreciated
<interesting if unattractive <G>... follow here my friend:
http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/p171.html
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able/news/fall2000/page2-f00.htm
http://www.zool.iastate.edu/~c_drewes/quickindex3.htm
http://www.walden.org/thoreau/default.asp?MFRAME=/scholarship/a/Alden_Peter/SPONGES.htm
<best regards, Anthony>
FW Sponges
>>Peter? Did you want to ask me something? LOL! Marina<<
>Actually yes, Do you know of anyone who had tried their luck in culturing
freshwater sponges?
>>No, I'm afraid not.
>As far as the alga, I'm coming up empty handed.
>>Me too.
>Did I send you an empty mail? Pete
>>Yes! You sure did! LOL! Marina>
Orange growth in freshwater?
I have a 20 gallon tank, has been established for over a year. I have a
Betta, 8 white cloud minnows, 4 blue danios, and an albino Cory cat in there.
But the problem isn't with the fish, they are doing great. However, on my fake
Cabomba plant, right at the stem where the leaves would be growing out, there
are these very strange looking orange puffy growths. I have never seen, nor
heard of anything like this before.
<Hmm, me neither>
I searched on the web, but to no avail on information found. I took one out and
tried to examine it, however it turned pretty much to mush, there were no eggs
inside or around the growths either. What could this possibly be? Thank you for
any info you can provide.
Shannon
<My best guess is that you actually have encountered a freshwater sponge (please
put this term in your computer search tools)... Rare in aquariums, ponds... but
do occur... this is about all (my second conjecture would be algae of some sort,
third, a gastropod egg-mass...) that is amorphous, soft/mushy as you describe.
Bob Fenner>
