Sponge attacking my corals

[gustavo]

I'm a new member of the R2R and this is my first request for help.I been in the hobby for almost 4 years,I have a 150 gal reef tank with fish and corals.Recently I got a rock from friend(?) of mine,with a coral and covered with a shiny yellow sponge,I set next to a toadstool soft coral, beautiful,then I noticed that the toadstool start to get the same sponge around the body and start to decay,I tried Reef Dip from Seachem twice already,with no good results;the problems is that another corals are been attacked from this sponge and small balls of sponge are showing in differents rocks.Somebody know how I can control and eliminate that weird sponge?I'll really appreciate your inputs.Thank you in advance.
Sincerely
Gustavo

 

[afamousjohnson]

Ya sponges can do a number on corals but they sure look sweet. I have seen certain sponges die off from being exposed to air, but it sounds like you've already done that. light seems to take some sponges out. Good luck.

 

[Triggreef]

Interesting first post. I can't offer advice but I'm interested to hear responses. I have a white sponge that's a little crazy in my sump I worry about sometimes.

 

[IdahoFledgling]

I cannot offer any advice either mate. Sounds frightening. Any pics?

Subscribing and hoping for a successful outcome.

 

[cymaster007]

Sponge will die if you can treat it with hydrogen peroxide, also there are some nudibranchs that eat sponge

 

[TXRon]

I recently noticed some bright yellow/green sponge looking stuff in the middle of an alveopora with polyps receding away from it. I removed it with tweezers (pic1) and the next day the coral had filled back in with all polyps extended. Then I noticed i lost a coral head from my green hammer. A day later the hammer looked like pic 2. I took that image while dipping the coral. You can see the same sponge or whatever on the skeleton of the hammer. Any help is appreciated. Anyone seen this before?

 

[FreeEnergyReefer]

I can only tell you my experience with sponges and what worked for me. At the 6month mark in my 75g high end mixed reef I was infested pretty bad with the standard white pineapple sponges and another white spider web looking sponges. I know now they came from me dosing phytoplankton daily for the entire 6months. The spiderweb looking sponge would crawl up my sps from the bottom n slowly kill them off as they climbed. I finally got ticked and scrubbed every sponge out of my tank and sump, all besides the few small ones in tiny rock crevices. After doing so I quit doseing daily ,took 3 weeks off and only dose it once a week now. The remaining 10 or so sponges have dwindled down to 3 and looks like they'll be gone soon. It's been 3months since doing so. Now I have no worries of some raggedy sponge wrecking thousands o dollars worth of colonies. IMO sponges are a parasite to corals and have no place in a reef tank. Good Luck n Happy Reefing my friend.