Hello all, posted this here as the pests thread felt inappropriate after reading on them a little bit. As the tittle suggests, I have what I'm 99% sure are pineapple sponges. I could try and post pics but they're not going to be good enough to really nail down an ID. They're pretty exclusively in the sump leading me to believe that my DT residents are picking off the ones up there. So a couple questions that came up while I was reading.
1 - Are they indicative of any areas in the tank I should be concerned about? I think I had read high nitrates but I could be mixing them up with something else.
2 - Several months ago I had purchased some(5) snails for the sump and all of them had died leading me to believe that there wasn't enough food for them. I know that there is a bristle worm in the low flow section of the sump, I placed him there to deal with the detritus, but I'm wondering that since there is a clear ecosystem in the sump now, will there be enough food for a new batch of snails to survive?
3 - I had read a post dating back several years that the poster had claimed a member of his local club had gotten his plumbing jammed with pineapple sponges. Has anyone heard of this happening? seems like they would need to be in pretty epic populations to achieve that.
1 - Are they indicative of any areas in the tank I should be concerned about? I think I had read high nitrates but I could be mixing them up with something else.
2 - Several months ago I had purchased some(5) snails for the sump and all of them had died leading me to believe that there wasn't enough food for them. I know that there is a bristle worm in the low flow section of the sump, I placed him there to deal with the detritus, but I'm wondering that since there is a clear ecosystem in the sump now, will there be enough food for a new batch of snails to survive?
3 - I had read a post dating back several years that the poster had claimed a member of his local club had gotten his plumbing jammed with pineapple sponges. Has anyone heard of this happening? seems like they would need to be in pretty epic populations to achieve that.