Does cleaner Shrimp or bristleworm eat sponge ?

[SleepingDragon]

Beside some fish, does anything else consume sponge ? I am losting a sponge that i recently got and wonder if it is the bristleworm or cleaner shrimp. Or something else that I can't think of.

Any idea ?

 

[LeslieH]

Bristleworms & cleaners don't eat sponges but a lot of other inverts do - usually small & cryptic ones. Some sponges will also quickly die if the conditions aren't right.

 

[SleepingDragon]

Dear Leslie,

Thanks for the input. Is there anything particular that one need to watch out for in water chemistry ? My tank has a few sponges. Some of them growed by themselves. It is just this one that I newly introduce into the tank that is decaying. I have tried different water current by changing loaction (different part of the tank and moving it into the refug.). It does not help.

 

[LeslieH]

Sorry.... I know natural history, not aquarium behavior. There's been a lot of discussion about the right conditions for sponges here. Try a search using a couple of keywords like "sponge" "growth" "condition" "light" etc and you'll find a lot of information.