Importance of Sponges in a reef..

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Did the article mention many sponges will not thrive, or live long, in an aquarium?

There is a recent thread on this.

This article is purely about coral reefs and not about the hobby:

The mystery of how coral reefs thrive in "ocean deserts" has been solved, scientists say

Alongside, there are sponges that can easily thrive and help captive environments (forgot the names; almost every matured reefs have most of them, doing an excellent job by filtering water). Its the ornamental and fancy ones that are hard to keep.