sponges taking over

D_Hood87 · 12/03/2008, 09:54 PM

the sponges arnt taking over the main tank but in the over flow and the sump and fuge i almost cand see through the glass. is this somthing i should be worried about or as long as they arnt taking over the main tank im ok type of thing??

im trying to get some pic's to post

D_Hood87 · 12/03/2008, 10:13 PM

anyone??

m2434 · 12/03/2008, 10:13 PM

Picks would help of course, butI'd guess you have excess bacteria in your tank. Are you dosing a carbon source by chance?

D_Hood87 · 12/03/2008, 10:14 PM

yes i have some carbon in in a filter bag in my sump.. dose that affect it?

m2434 · 12/03/2008, 10:40 PM

No, I meant are you dosing sugar, vodka, vinegar etc... I would guess from your response that you are not. I pick would help... If you have a lot of sponges, there has to be excess food for them. They tend to eat bacteria and other plankton.

sassafrass · 12/03/2008, 11:13 PM

They won't harm anything , It is just another sign that your husbandry skills could be honed a little more.

crvz · 12/04/2008, 07:57 AM

Nope, they're helping filter the water and not something to be worried about. A picture would help in the ID, but in general you're fine.

BigJay · 12/04/2008, 08:49 AM

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Originally posted by sassafrass
They won't harm anything , It is just another sign that your husbandry skills could be honed a little more.

Don't listen to this chowderhead, he doesn't know a darn thing about your husbandry skills.

Sponges are a sign of a healthy and thriving ecosystem. Assuming that your tank isn't super-infested with algae, it actually means that your doing pretty well.

I have plenty of sponges in my overflows, because I dose live phytoplankton a few times per week to feed my featherduster worms.

12/03/2008, 09:54 PM	#1
D_Hood87 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia Posts: 323	sponges taking over the sponges arnt taking over the main tank but in the over flow and the sump and fuge i almost cand see through the glass. is this somthing i should be worried about or as long as they arnt taking over the main tank im ok type of thing?? im trying to get some pic's to post

12/03/2008, 10:13 PM	#2
D_Hood87 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia Posts: 323	anyone?? __________________ DONALD Current Tank Info: 160gal REBUILD....GOING SPS ALL THE WAY!!!

12/03/2008, 10:13 PM	#3
m2434 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,171	Picks would help of course, butI'd guess you have excess bacteria in your tank. Are you dosing a carbon source by chance? __________________ Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. ~Richard Feynman

12/03/2008, 10:14 PM	#4
D_Hood87 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia Posts: 323	yes i have some carbon in in a filter bag in my sump.. dose that affect it? __________________ DONALD Current Tank Info: 160gal REBUILD....GOING SPS ALL THE WAY!!!

12/03/2008, 10:40 PM	#5
m2434 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,171	No, I meant are you dosing sugar, vodka, vinegar etc... I would guess from your response that you are not. I pick would help... If you have a lot of sponges, there has to be excess food for them. They tend to eat bacteria and other plankton. __________________ Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. ~Richard Feynman

12/03/2008, 11:13 PM	#6
sassafrass Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: capitola ca Posts: 1,729	They won't harm anything , It is just another sign that your husbandry skills could be honed a little more.

12/04/2008, 07:57 AM	#7
crvz Team RC Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: houstonia Posts: 7,989	Nope, they're helping filter the water and not something to be worried about. A picture would help in the ID, but in general you're fine. __________________ -Chris- You don't win friends with salad. "Look! They're trying to learn for free!" ... "Use your phony guns as clubs!" Current Tank Info: rectangluar? wet?