A CLIMBER SPONGE

Authors

  • ROBERTO PRONZATO

Abstract

A three years lasting experiment on growth and behaviour of Chondrilla nucula is described. About 100 sponge fragments were transplanted in plastic tubes, in a sponge farming structure. All fragments showed the tendency to grow “climbing” on the internal vertical surface of tubes. Sponges moved 10 cm upward in a period of four months. Mortality was lower than 10 %: Sponge biomass proliferation was up to 800 % over a three years period.

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2018-05-23

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Vol. 68 (2004): Sponge Science in the new Millennium “Papers contributed to the VI International Sponge Conference“ Rapallo (Italy) 29th September - 5th October 2002

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