Anything out there eat sponges?

[BlazinNano]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Jason edwards]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[BlazinNano]

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

 

[Cuda]

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

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

 

[BlazinNano]

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

 

[Acezwild]

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

 

[Yellowtang]

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]

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

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,

 

[Yellowtang]

Main Diet sponges:

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Rock Beauty

JR,

 

[Cuda]

any inverts?