Spider sponge commensal zoanthid pics

[Brie]

I was finally able to get some shots of this super cool coral. It lives commensally with a red sponge, Trikentrion flabelliforme.

 

[reedman]

that is sooooooo cool

 

[Myteemouse]

wow soo neat
So how much for a frag of that bad boy????

 

[declivis]

no frags at this time, the colony is $79.99.

 

[Myteemouse]

Well I just read up on this and the sponge shouldn't be fraged...
Your right for not fraging it..
Good luck to whoever buys it..
It's read that they like phytoplankton
Oyster eggs and cyclopeez
Also don't like nitrates over 20 and don't like phosphates at all..

 

[Brie]

Well I just read up on this and the sponge shouldn't be fraged...
Your right for not fraging it..
Good luck to whoever buys it..
It's read that they like phytoplankton
Oyster eggs and cyclopeez
Also don't like nitrates over 20 and don't like phosphates at all..

From what i've gathered, its like any other sponge(hard to keep). The zoanthids themselves you just have to target feed alot, like any other non photosynthetic coral. Today they fed on bits of mysis and arctipods.

I read a thread on some other forum somewhere about a guy who had one, had the sponge die, but kept the zoanthids alive by glueing em down to rocks and target feeding them.

 

[reefsurfer]

Brie,

Great photos!!!