Description
This is the Yellow Tube Sponge, also known as the Aplysina aerophoba. The animal’s name is very self explanatory. This animal, who is commonly mistaken for a plant, has a rough outer, tube-like shell. It is yellow, hence the name. Also, it is hollowed out, with one tube coming out from the top, and it is capable of growing to 3 feet tall.
The Aplysina aerophoba in its natural habitat.
Habitat
The Yellow Tube Sponge lives underwater, near the northern zone of the Atlantic ocean. It is found in the Neritic Zone, which is also known as the Coastal Line. The coastal line holds 98% of wildlife in the ocean, which so happens to include the Yellow Tube Sponge.
Diet and Predators
Yellow Tube Sponges must eat, as with every other …show more content…
However, it can produce both asexually and sexually. The sponge reproducing sexually is much more common than it producing asexually. Sexual spawn happens when a male sponge shoots sperm into the water, and with luck, it will reach a female. Asexual spawn happen when a piece of the Yellow Tube Sponge breaks off, during a storm or whatnot, and lands somewhere hard, like a rock. It then sustains a life of its own. It cannot truly care for its young, as the young sustain for themselves as soon as they are born.
A microscopic mite Lorryia
Medicinal Properties
Scientists have seen many outstanding properties in the Yellow Tube Sponge, but possibly one of the most outstanding ones is the antimicrobial properties inside the sponge. If this can be properly exploited, it could mean less toxic microorganisms, such as Toxic Shock Syndrome, would be seen in the future.
A microorganism.
Fun Facts
There are many interesting things about the Yellow Tube Sponge, one of them being that Yellow Tube Sponges can practically never fall. They can be knocked down, from being hit by a diver, from a storm, whatever, but they will get up. Although they cannot physically move, they can rearrange their molecules so that way they make an upright
This is the Yellow Tube Sponge, also known as the Aplysina aerophoba. The animal’s name is very self explanatory. This animal, who is commonly mistaken for a plant, has a rough outer, tube-like shell. It is yellow, hence the name. Also, it is hollowed out, with one tube coming out from the top, and it is capable of growing to 3 feet tall.
The Aplysina aerophoba in its natural habitat.
Habitat
The Yellow Tube Sponge lives underwater, near the northern zone of the Atlantic ocean. It is found in the Neritic Zone, which is also known as the Coastal Line. The coastal line holds 98% of wildlife in the ocean, which so happens to include the Yellow Tube Sponge.
Diet and Predators
Yellow Tube Sponges must eat, as with every other …show more content…
However, it can produce both asexually and sexually. The sponge reproducing sexually is much more common than it producing asexually. Sexual spawn happens when a male sponge shoots sperm into the water, and with luck, it will reach a female. Asexual spawn happen when a piece of the Yellow Tube Sponge breaks off, during a storm or whatnot, and lands somewhere hard, like a rock. It then sustains a life of its own. It cannot truly care for its young, as the young sustain for themselves as soon as they are born.
A microscopic mite Lorryia
Medicinal Properties
Scientists have seen many outstanding properties in the Yellow Tube Sponge, but possibly one of the most outstanding ones is the antimicrobial properties inside the sponge. If this can be properly exploited, it could mean less toxic microorganisms, such as Toxic Shock Syndrome, would be seen in the future.
A microorganism.
Fun Facts
There are many interesting things about the Yellow Tube Sponge, one of them being that Yellow Tube Sponges can practically never fall. They can be knocked down, from being hit by a diver, from a storm, whatever, but they will get up. Although they cannot physically move, they can rearrange their molecules so that way they make an upright