Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Not Reef Tank Suitable
Not Suitable for Fish-Only Tank
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Caribbean, Belize, Jamaica, and Colombia to Panama.
Natural Environment: Inhabits reef and lagoon areas
Aquarium Suitability: Usually arrives attached to live rock and possible the lower exposed areas of stony corals, where it can eat its way into the skeleton material. Removed when seen.
Furthermore, keep in mind, if a hitchhiker sponge arrives attached to a coral specimen or live rock, it is reasonable to assume that at one time it was subjected to 'air' when the specimen or rock was harvested/shipped/transferred to various storage areas, thereby endangering the ongoing lifespan of the hitchhiker sponge, as it should never to subjected to air! Therefore the ongoing culture of hitchhiker sponges is dismal at best!
Best left in the wild.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Heteroscleromorpha
Order: Clionaida
Family: Clionidae
Genus: Cliona
FYI: Shown here for identification only.
