my new baby... AKA The Café

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

Eagle_Steve said:
Even a plain ole finger sponge will last them a very long time, as long as you are feeding them other food. I have a red finger sponge that is 3 years in my tank, 2 yellow sponges about 2 years that my eblii munches on from time to time and they are not affected at all. Granted he is a sump fish now, just due to me tearing down the macro tank, but he hasnt touched a single coral in all that time. He also has macro, sponge and other foods to eat.

I feel that if you can provide close to the diet they need (not what you think they need) then they leave corals alone. Same goes for Foxface. I have only had 1 foxface that ate corals. Towards the end of me being in the military, I was not home and it was only getting frozen food. It then decided to eat corals. Once home, I started giving it plenty of macros to eat and eating corals stopped. It was like it was missing some nutrient/vitamin or something from the macros and decided it needed to eat corals to get it.

I feed lots of nori, emerald entree, selcon, rotifer powder and copepod powder, the red bacteria powder , pellet.

I do want a macro tank eventually that I can harvest some algae to feed

Eagle_Steve · Aug 4, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
I feed lots of nori, emerald entree, selcon, rotifer powder and copepod powder, the red bacteria powder , pellet.

I do want a macro tank eventually that I can harvest some algae to feed

If you are feeding that, then you are feeding a nice and diverse diet.

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

Eagle_Steve said:
If you are feeding that, then you are feeding a nice and diverse diet.

Yep

treat the homies

Goaway · Aug 4, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
I have no sponge thats something i wanna get.

No live rock?

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

Mibu said:
No live rock?

I started DRY so its only alive with what comes from frags and additions. i've seen some cool sponges that people have an i think woah wish i had some of that.

fishguy242 · Aug 4, 2022

better hurry ,i only have about 1500 lbs live rock left...

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
I started DRY so its only alive with what comes from frags and additions. i've seen some cool sponges that people have an i think woah wish i had some of that.

@Mibu meaning corraline, pods, some algae, bristles , some stars, aptasia, the only live im missing is sponges .. err algaes.. considering the macro display sump ill probs get some nice live rock

fishguy242 said:
better hurry ,i only have about 1500 lbs live rock left...

I really wanna christmas tree worm rock . like real bad.

fishguy242 · Aug 4, 2022

christmas tree worm rock is sold as a coral...

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

fishguy242 said:
christmas tree worm rock is sold as a coral...

true because they host the coral right?

fishguy242 · Aug 4, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
true because they host the coral right?

that is how collected and sold .

Goaway · Aug 4, 2022

Nate Chalk said:
@Mibu meaning corraline, pods, some algae, bristles , some stars, aptasia, the only live im missing is sponges .. err algaes.. considering the macro display sump ill probs get some nice live rock

I really wanna christmas tree worm rock . like real bad.

I 100% promise you. Your angel will feel like they are having a christmas with one of those colonies.

I am sure there is more to live rock than what we can get from frags. That's a much larger discussion than I'd like to try to get into this next few weeks.

Nate Chalk · Aug 4, 2022

Mibu said:
I 00% promise you. Your angel will feel like they are having a christmas with one of those colonies.

I am sure there is more to live rock than what we can get from frags. That's a much larger discussion than I'd like to try to get into this next few weeks

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