Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Caribbean, Bahamas, and to Colombia.
Natural Environment: Inhabits reef flats and lagoons and often found on sandy flats between reefs.
Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.
Best left in the wild.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Verongimorpha
Order: Verongiida
Family: Aplysinidae
Genus: Aplysina
FYI: Feeds by drawing water in and through its pores and filtering out bacteria and organic particles, then expelling the filtered water out through the osculi.
Can reach 14 inches (35 cm) in height and grows in clumps of up to twelve tubes.
