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    Smile Sponge Coral Care

    How do you properly care for Sponge Coral? What do you feed them?
    I have a 24 gallon Nano Cube.Please help.
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    scoobado@vickijkent@bellsouth.net What kind of lights and so forth are needed for these,are the ones that come standard with a Nano Cube set up
    for a reef and coral tank sufficent?????
    My orange sponge coral is turning white.........HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
    What can I do for it??????????Am feeding it Phyto.It is not under much light ,is in the middle section,to one side of the tank.
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    Sponge doesnt need lights so lighting is not a major issue. Just provide gd water flow & feed them with phyto ... O remember not to expose them to air ...

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    The care for almost every sponge is different. Some only grow in dimly lit areas, some house algae and need light. Their feeding requirements are all different as are their flow requirements. Without being able to ID your sponge, which in most cases is EXTREMELY difficult to do, you usually can't say much about how to care for it. As a general rule though, most of the sponges sold in the hobby need laminar flow that you can't reproduce in a regular aquarium to survive.
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    what is laminar flow??

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    Laminar flow refers to water flowing in parallel layers with no disruption between the layers. Tidal flows would be laminar below the surface but turbulent where the surface meets the reef crest. A steady flow in one direction is a laminar flow.
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    Re: Sponge Coral Care

    So, what if I place the sponge next to to a small waterpump, as to create flow in one direction directly to it?

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    Re: Sponge Coral Care

    Quote Originally Posted by hjrosas View Post
    So, what if I place the sponge next to to a small waterpump, as to create flow in one direction directly to it?
    Hi hjrosas,



    It would depend on the size of the pump and the distance from it, otherwise you can simply dismember all the cells in your sponge. If the sponge is far enough from the output of the pump I guess you can recreate the laminar flow to some degree, however it would be highly debateable if your sponge will really benefit from it. ;)
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    Re: Sponge Coral Care

    I just got an orange sponge coral my self. The place where I go to is called Big Al's. They said that when your coral turns white, it means you have let in air in the coral. This is why it turns white.

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    Re: Sponge Coral Care

    Quote Originally Posted by Pishy-Guy98 View Post
    I just got an orange sponge coral my self. The place where I go to is called Big Al's. They said that when your coral turns white, it means you have let in air in the coral. This is why it turns white.
    Note do not expose the sponge to air longer than five seconds this will make the sponge bleach and die best way to put a sponge in a fish tank is to put the bag in the water open the bag with the bag in the fish tank ones the whole bag is in the tank all the water has entered the bag then put the sponge in the tank.


 

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