Morning, was wondering how many of you have spider sponges and where they are located in your Aquarium? I’m wondering if I have the best location for mine or if there might be a better home for it. Wondering if I got it out from under the rocks a little bit more if it would get more flow to help keep the build up off it
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Where did you find it? I really want oneMorning, was wondering how many of you have spider sponges and where they are located in your Aquarium? I’m wondering if I have the best location for mine or if there might be a better home for it. Wondering if I got it out from under the rocks a little bit more if it would get more flow to help keep the build up off it
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I have about a dozen sponges in my tanks. The spider sponge is one of the most difficult. Doing research on it, one of the schools of thought is that the zoas may be parasitic. In time, they tend to take over the sponge. Yours is Indo-pacific. I tried the caribbean version. Sadly, I did not have much luck with it. The zoas have to be fed fine food while the sponge needs super fine food. It must be fed at least a couple of times a day. I stir the substrate of my tank to get the microfauna into the water column and the sponges do fine on this. The zoas will pick up food also. They tend to need a moderate flow and too much light is bad. If yours gets debris on it, just blow it off.
