fish that eat sponge

[bruno21447]

I was told a swallow tail angel will eat sponge? I have a bunch of white and dark sponge takin over some of my tank.Plus I dont care for the look. I dont mind a small amount since I understand it is benificial. So, is it true these angels will help out? Or is there some other fish critter that will help?

 

[Captain Nemo]

a moorish idol will eat sponge sometimes I have been told. However, good luck keeping one alive.....

 

[bruno21447]

Yea I seen they are hard my friend has one but he likes clams too

 

[AquaticReeferMan]

Bruno pictures of the sponge that your talking about would be helpful to identify the type of sponge you have in your tank. So from there we can help you on which fish will eat your sponge.

 

[Neon Reef]

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<----- This lil guy loves sponges over anything else, but I wouldn't recommend him unless you have a big enough tank to sustain him.

 

[Dog Boy Dave]

All my angels eat sponges. They also eat algae, any soft corals, lps, zoanthids, aptasia, rodactus, clams, gorgonians, sps but no more than 1/4 inch at a time and probably anything else they could catch.

 

[Cubbies]

Angels for the most part.

 

[bruno21447]

Tried gettin a good pic of darker sponge but not easy with iphone cam it to the left of the blurry clown tang lol

I want a reef safe angel that is why i was thinking of a swallow tail angel or part of that same family.
My tank is a 225g

 

[MattL22]

Dude that's awesome !!!

 

[bruno21447]

lol like I said I dont mind some but the dark stuff already took over and killed some coral and at my LFS they had the same looking sponge and it took over there mummy eye chalice.And if you look close the the pic with clown tang that is takin over half a piece of [h=3]Pocillopora Coral[/h]

 

[JSemour]

Swallowtail Angels won't eat sponges, they are planktivores, which is why they are reef safe 99% of the time. The majority of the sponge eaters will also nip corals, clams, etc. If I was in your shoes, I'd go with a deepwater Centropyge angel, like a Golden or Multicolor. They are less likely to eat photosynthetic animals being deepwater, and being an angel, LOVE sponges.

BTW, the two sponges in question are actually the same species, commonly called Chicken Liver Sponge, Chondrilla sp. They get dark when exposed to light due to symbiotic algae.