Five Reasons Sponges Are BAD For A Coral Reef Aquarium

[Reef Builders]

Sponges are some of the most remarkable life forms that we can encounter in the ocean. These resilient and diverse ‘creatures’ are not quite single celled, not quite organisms, but colonies of single cells all working together. The can be found from the shallowest coral reefs to the deepest hydrothermic vents, and there is no […]

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[jakeh22]

Still love my red non photosyntheticlook at this puppy...on the right

 

[DSC reef]

I prefer sponges and diversity plus there easy to keep in check IME.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

With the amount we don’t really know about alllpothy, I’d say “toxin” is relative. All corals do it. Leathers and acros Esp. Toxins in corals (fish too) decrease the farther away from the wild they are. (Like dart frogs, is food source based).
Many macros also do this.

So I have to wonder if this is lab tested or science based findings or an over abundance of caution or just personal observation.

One theory on diversity and the treatment of Dino’s and other plagues , aside from nutrient competition is allpeothy.