Anything out there eat sponges?

BlazinNano · Jul 22, 2009

One of my rocks has a hitchhiker. It is a white sponge that looks like spaghetti. I know it is a sponge because it is soft and always grows back when I suck part of it out. it is not bothering anything it is just really ugly. Is there anything I can do to get rid of it.

Sikryd · Jul 22, 2009

I have one too that I don't like - It turns black when it is climbs over the top of the rock and is in the light.
I hope someone knows. Otherwise I am going to pull the rock and scrape it off, then dry it out.

ahayes13 · Jul 22, 2009

ive had the black kind before and i took the rock out and scraped it all off really good then rinsed it off and it hasnt come back...

Sikryd · Jul 22, 2009

ahayes13 said:
ive had the black kind before and i took the rock out and scraped it all off really good then rinsed it off and it hasnt come back...

I'll do that then. Probably less work than any other alternative.

BlazinNano · Jul 22, 2009

I cant take the rock out. Plus it is covered with zoas

Jason edwards · Jul 23, 2009

Im sure theres species of nudi that eat sponges. I had a giant tumorus looking sack one. I had a zoanthid colony lean over onto it and completly nuked it.

pwoller · Jul 23, 2009

Maybe a Spaghetti worm, do you have a picture of it? If it is and you dont want it just pull it off the rock.

AlexStinson · Jul 23, 2009

some cowries are good at eating sponge... I had a plague of black sponge in one of our 4x4' coral tanks... 3 cowries added took itout in a few days

joemarchetti · Jul 23, 2009

large angels eat sponges... unfortunately, most things that eat sponge eat other, more desirable things as well

BlazinNano · Jul 23, 2009

I know it is a sponge because I can see the base of it then all the strings come out of the base.

Cuda · Jul 23, 2009

Yes thats the stuff. It getting worse. I thought starfish were suposed to eat it?

Bagged87blayzer said:
I know it is a sponge because I can see the base of it then all the strings come out of the base.

BlazinNano · Jul 23, 2009

I know like choc chips will as well as eating everything else in the tank.

Acezwild · Jul 23, 2009

I had pencil urchins that would clean it all up not sure how the urchins would do in reef

Yellowtang · Jul 23, 2009

Some of the dwarf or pygmy angels are supposed to eat sponges, but I've never seen any do it. and there only about half reef safe, depends on your luck. I myself have never seen a reef safe fish, in the long run they will all start to pick on something you don't want them to.

JR,

Cuda · Jul 24, 2009

I have a Flame Angel and a Coral B. In there and still sponges

Yellowtang said:
Some of the dwarf or pygmy angels are supposed to eat sponges, but I've never seen any do it. and there only about half reef safe, depends on your luck. I myself have never seen a reef safe fish, in the long run they will all start to pick on something you don't want them to.

JR,