Red plating sponge

[MuShu]

http://http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+2341+2512+3540&pcatid=3540

I really like the look of this sponge- I love the look of the red plating SPS corals, but I want to keep my reef LPS and softies. My 55gal reef is 7 months old. Could I put this in?

The place I want to put it has a few vermetid snails. They were bothering a duncan so much that I had to move it. Would a sponge have the same issue?

Are there any other sponges I should look at? I like the look of the yellow ball sponges too.

 

[badbreath]

Your link has a few too many https I think.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+2341+2512+3540&pcatid=3540


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[Ron Reefman]

MuShu, the red plating sponge is one of the very few that is photosynthetic. I have one in my tank and it's doing quite well. It even survived a month in a crappy holding tank when my DT sprang an unfixable leak. Some of it died, but now it's in my new tank and the dead tissue has dissolved and it's started growing again. I got it from Live Aquaria too.

Most other sponges are not photosynthetic and therefore need to filter food from the water. The problem is, the foods that we feed our tanks, even coral foods, are WAY TOO BIG for sponges to use. They also like a regular supply of food (i.e. lots of nutrients) which we tend not to have in our tanks. Most sponges that do well in aquariums don't care for light (look under rocks that have been in a tank for a year). Leave the rock with a sponge turned over and the sponge fades away over the next few months.

I've tried a lot of small sponges that I can collect when I snorkel in the Keys and they almost always fade away over weeks or months.