Sponge eating fish

[STEVE]

Any suggestions on a fish that will eat Sponge? I know some Angels...anyone with 1st hand experience? Has to be reefsafe of course!

[smallreef]

ahhhh The angel that eats sponge will eat zoas

so your not going to want one of those!

 

dont really know of any fish that are only sponge eaters and leave corals alone...

[STEVE]

Yea Kim.....Im looking for a good answer, unfortantley, I'm pretty sure of the answer already!

[STEVE]

On another note Kim...can I borrow your Refractometer Calib solution again? PM me your phone number again.

[Integral9]

I had a Coral Beauty that ate sponges very well and didn't seem to bother my zoas too much. Occaisionally it would nip at them when I forgot to feed the fish, but that's all it seemed to do. I never saw it devour a colony or outright attack a colony. It was more of a passing nip-n-go. IIRC, it was a south pacific Coral Beauty. The markings were only yellow and red stripes on it's body with a blue border, which I don't see too often. The blue was only on the edges. Most CBs I see have red, yellow, and blue stripes. I had seen the fish in the LFS for months before I bought it. At first I thought it was sick because it didn't have the pronounced blue I had typically seen in CBs, but after several months and no change I decided what the H-E-double hockey sticks and bought it figuring it would blue under my lights or with different foods. Nope.