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Skyetone 
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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....
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
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Posted: April 23 2004 at 5:42am |
 Skyetone wrote:
is there anything special to keep it alive? |
Other than not exposing it to air, absolutely nothing
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Posted: April 23 2004 at 8:10am |
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.
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Posted: April 23 2004 at 4:19pm |
cool i guess
It was in a bleak tank...
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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: 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.
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