Sponges Goronians

[wieselspor]

I was thinking of getting a sponge and gorgonian. Anyone know what the care is for these? I know the need zooplanktons are they live or are they packaged frozen/dried. I thought they would add some good color to the tank w/o going into corals.

 

[airforceb2]

Make sure you have a semi-low flow area in your tank. They don't like high flow or high intensity lights. I have never head of them being packaged dried. I know that sponges can't touch air at all. Make sure you float the bag and then submerge it before you take the sponge out.

 

[wieselspor]

Oh sorry I was talking about the food

 

[jdragunas]

you might get a better response if you post this in the "reef tanks" forum, or the "Corals and trading" forum. We're all beginners here, so we're not too familiar with these.

 

[puffer32]

Here's my purple fan. I feed him plankton, he is at the bottom with just alittle flow to keep algae from growing, algae will kill gorgs.

 

[mudplayerx]

I would skip the sponge, but that is only my opinion. I have never lost anything in my tank until I got a sponge. It slowly started turning a clear whitish color on the surface. After doing some research I found that it was dying, so I tossed it.
They are listed as difficult to keep. I had a difficult time balancing a high flow area with low light (I have mh). I used a clean toothbrush to clean off the cyano that grew on it, which may have led to its demise.

 

[wieselspor]

I've only got 65W in my 37g so maybe that wouldn't be bad. Just curious did the hermit crabs and snails crawl on it and clean it