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Originally Posted by noy
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I have a little anecdotal input on my Spider Sponge. I have found that they seem to need a lot of flow.
When I first put it in the tank, it blew over so I put it in a calmer spot but it slowly started to decline even though I was feeding it a lot of varying foods for NPS. The polyps weren't coming out as much, month after month and a brown film was starting to form near the center of the branches.
That is when I moved it right into the thick of flow. I happen to use a Neptune COR with a 1 ¼ inch outlet and a Gyre, both on the left end. I programed them to ramp up and back down about every 30 seconds but I don’t think that is a big deal. I don’t know.
In my 6 foot tank. I put the coral about 4 feet away so that the flow would be more laminar and then turned up the flow enough to get it to bend slightly.
Within a few minutes, it started to perk up and in hours it looked much better. In just about a week or two, it had shed the brown film and now the polyps are out most of the time, day or night and regardless of feeding.
This might be a coincidence but it seems to be working.
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