sponge & fire shrimps

[woonming]

hiya any1 know isit hard and what kinda of lighting and water type and food for sponge ?

are they hard to keep and any1 seen a fire shrimps isit easy to keep them in like about 4

plus do star fish eat coals and fishes or sponge ?

[Chris]

I have had 4 fire and 4 cleaner shrimps for a long while and they are doing fine. They need rocks to hide, will come out to search fro food when lights are off or when white light is off. Also, they need iodide to molt. Preferably temp should be below 27. Sponge, I'm not so sure. Starfish, they type with five pointed knobs in the center are not reefsafe. Only the blue and orange type called Lankin are reefsafe, but the blue ones can grow very big. Just my 2 cents worth.

[souphamster]

i want to give up my sponge.. too bulky for my 2 feet tank. Orange colour some more, i have read up that if the sponge is expose to air, even when transfer out ot tank so on, this will affect the passage way of the sponge. The sponge will die...

[Achilles Tang]

Sponges are filter feeders and do well when fed with plankton and to a lesser extent... plankton substitutes.

The blue ones commonly seen in LFS are photosynthetic but should be kept in an area of good flow to prevent algae/cynano growing on them.

If you are afraid of air bubbles in your sponges, simply shake it, or even squeeze it slightly to remove air bubbles. Broken pieces can be wedged into LR and they will embed and grow (provided they get fed).

[souphamster]

ARGH... when i first bring my sponge home, a small bit of it was broken .. so i threw it away.. so that means the part can be regrowth... hmm... how? i notice that the bottom part of the sponge is like white grey.. isit the root?? mine is orange sponge..

[woonming]

WoW Thank You for your reply

Erm do we consider shrimps output (waste) the same as we do for fishes . i mean is 4 fire shrimps bio load the same as 4 clown fish ..

Will a small 1.5 feet with one angle of the tank taken out to be an internal overflow and with about 4 shrimps and LR .. Do well ? maybe with a DSB

i was told some fishes will eat up good stuff on a DSB and if ur tank is too small no point keeping them . WIll shrimps do the same 2 eatting up good stuff on a sea bed ?

wow 27degress ? i guess itis hard to achieve it without a chiller or fan

But fan will cause salt spray around the house . *sob*

vivien