Can you frag a tree sponge

The time now is AM. TapaTalk Enabled. Use of this web site is subject to the terms and conditions described in the user agreement. User Name. Remember Me? Mark Forums Read. Visit tmcgaughey's homepage! Re: can you frag a sponge? Quote: Originally posted by tmcgaughey I assume so but thought I'd ask are they really that hard to take care of? Visit Aquarist's homepage! Find More Posts by Aquarist Visit Gary Majchrzak's homepage!

Quote: I am sure that PaulB suggested that he feeds his copper banded butterfly fish spongesbut then again that could have been his Moorish Idols. Find More Posts by Paul B. Find More Posts by ErikAnderson. Find More Posts by KarlBob. Find More Posts by fatdaddy. Quote: Originally posted by KarlBob A tank-use-only blender or food processor is not a bad investment if you plan to make your own frozen food. And you can imagine how devastating this is when sponges grow in the lower dead branches of birdnest and other SPS corals.

But what you might not know is that sponges can grow inside coral! These endolithic sponges can kill corals from the inside out — usually this is only experienced in colonies that have some wild skeleton with them, but it just goes to show you that sponges are not as innocuous as the seem.

Our aquariums operate in a delicate dance that requires a lot of moving parts to operate flawlessly. Any slight perturbations to the functioning of our pumps, valves and sensors can throw off the entire balance of the system, sometimes with only slight impairments and other times really throwing things our of wack.

The tolerances of pump impellers are very tight and will suffer a performance hit if anything hinders it.

Sponges simply add to the biofouling that takes place from a wide range of life forms but their prolific growth can clog everything you can think of. Clogged pumps, imbalanced needle wheel impellers, and clogged pipes can all lead to reduced performance from pumps, protein skimmers and it can prevent switches and sensors from accurately doing their job. By now you may be thinking that I have a grudge against sponges but in fact I have immense respect for Porifera.

I do have plenty of sponges growing in my own reef tank, but I find myself removing and siphoning out loads of diverse sponges on a monthly basis.

Sure little ball sponges are cute and interesting, but so many of the branching and encrusting species constantly creep up from behind and under the rock, continually encroaching on every kind of coral that they come across. I love seeing impressive and unique sponge species while diving but in my reef tanks, I have an all out assault on removing and preventing sponges from growing in any way.

Removing sponges from the equation makes it that much simpler and straight forward to zero in on the ideal environment for growing corals in an aquarium environment. Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years.

Volcano Red Velvet sea sponge for sale. Rare to find with this deep coloration and texture growing on a live clam in pics. This sponge is unique to all other sponges in the sense that it is symbiotic with a clam. So each one is Red dragon fire live sea sponge small for sale for saltwater aquariums. Sponges are reef safe and filter feed plankton and bacteria from the water column.

You get a Red Beard Sponge Clathria prolifera specimen similar to the Extra Large size 7 inch plus tall and 7 inch wide with gold veins running all around this one of a kind specimen. This sponge will be the Lava Fire Jumbo Sponge for sale. Grey silky sponge colony large specimen. Rare growth form of sponge silky skinned grey. Red Tree Sponge Special Branchy specimen. Unusual growth pattern rare find. Size: 8"". Spikey Gorgonian extra large specimen.

Pics don't do it justice on this one. Great for dwarf seahorse aquarium tanks. Red Lava Wall sponge and gorgonian combo rock. One of a kind center piece for reef tank. Mix types of Gorgonian with sponge combo rock with small yellow ball sponge. Gorgonian sponge combo rock with small yellow ball sponge for sale. Mixed Gorgonian combo rock with small yellow ball sponge for sale. Blue goddess sponge growing together with orange knobby finger sponger cluster. Orange yellow Encrusting with Blue Goddess growing together.

Magnificent contrasting colors on this live sponge combo. Rare find. Blue Starburst sponge growing with yellow ball sponge on base of rock.

Another one of a kind center piece sponge combo with a Orange yellow encrusting sponge growth form and a Black Tunicate coral. The surprise is that the Tunicate coral is not growing attached or rooted to the live rock base.

It is held there by a good Sponge combo rock with orange ridge ear and grey blue egg sponge growing together. Look at the clean growth on this grape macro algae rooted on it's original base live rock. Look at the all the bright primary color combinations on this one of a kind multi sponge cluster.

Sea Sponge combo growing on original live reef rock where the sponge spore egg seed settled and adhered itself to begin it's life cycle. Red lava Fire with small Orange Ridge sporite sponge. Extra large Blue goddess sponge growing together with a yellow knobby finger tree sponge cluster.

Good size specimen for this rare grey ball sponge with many mouths or orifices. Sponge Combo. Orange Ridge ear sponge on live rock base growing on original substrate rock from the spore egg.

Strawberry Tuni coral growing together with orange yellow encrusting sponge combo rock.