How do I keep sponge alive?
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Topic: How do I keep sponge alive?
Posted By: Skyetone
Subject: How do I keep sponge alive?
Date Posted: April 22 2004 at 10:15pm
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I just got some LR from the nickle ads. The guy had a bleak tank, but one peice of LR had a lot of flat sponge on it. is there anything special to keep it alive? MAybe If I had enough, I could get one of those cool slugs.... ------------- I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it. Magna |
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Posted By: chrisslc
Date Posted: April 23 2004 at 5:42am
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Other than not exposing it to air, absolutely nothing ------------- Murray, Utah just north of the park. "It's all the same to the clam" -Shel Silverstein |
Skyetone wrote:Posted By: Jared Wood
Date Posted: April 23 2004 at 8:10am
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Some types of sponge will only grow in the dark. They all need what Mark Peterson has recently been calling Live Water. Are we going to get a WMAS microscope so that I can look closely at my water. I would love that. ------------- In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth ... then He let it cycle. Have you read my http://www.jaredwood.com/observations.htm#dinosaur" rel="nofollow - dinosaur theory yet? |
Posted By: Skyetone
Date Posted: April 23 2004 at 4:19pm
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cool i guess It was in a bleak tank... ------------- I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it. Magna |
Posted By: dianatabor
Date Posted: April 24 2004 at 9:19am
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Most sponges feed on bacteria and phytoplankton in the water. Some like high current areas, but some prefer low level currents. In my experience, lighting isn't very important to most of them. I have several different types of sponges and I've found that they grow like crazy if you supplement with small amounts of Kent Marine Coral Accel and Strontium & Molybdenum. I have most of mine in a stiller area of the tank, in line with a drift from where I usually feed my fish, so they get juices from my feeding mixtures also (including Zoe supplements and xyclopeze). I add DT's to the tank occasionally. I've also heard that they like bacteria that grows within the sand bed, so you should make sure you have some sand-stirring critters in your tank.
I'm not sure what type of filtration your tank has, but I only use filter cartridges about half of the time. The other half of the time, I just let the water circulate. That way I'm not removing valuable "food" from the water. I have lots of filter feeders in my tank, so they basically keep the water clean for me. This is an FYI, not necessarily a recommendation on what you should do. This totally depends on your tank circulation and what you have in there, but it is something to consider. |