Thanks Brandon, and your thread here is great! I find it intriguing that you are mixing "methods" with the tank system in that you have Zeolite and a refugium/algae export and a skimmer (basically mixing Triton and Zeovit from what I gather).
This past week I introduced two orange ear sponges (Agelas clathrodes) to my main tank, using gel superglue on their holdfasts attached to pieces of PVC for mounting. A question, how do you mount the sponges?
I'm trying to place them in the part of the tank's water movement that best suits their current shapes. I'm assuming the water is supposed to move from the bottom and fan out to the top according to their shapes, but I could be wrong... I don't see any osculums on their surfaces. I tried to put them in shadier spots (to limit algae on their surface) and somewhat perpendicular to the water flow.
The ones I have are basically shaped like this photo below, except the holdfasts are not buried. Alternatively, I could place them so flow enters from the top and out through the bottom, or from 45 degree angles either from the top or the bottom.
However, they're now oriented like this:
Also, I'm feeding now with Seachem Reef Phytoplankton 5ml every other day, but the tank also has a puffer whose food contributes to excess nutrients. I'm not sure where silica is coming from besides fish food, but there is definitely diatom growth (not microscope confirmed) so I assume there is enough silica to host sponge lifeforms also.
Thanks Again!
