A new study suggests that the expelled mucus from sponges could support biodiversity in coral reefs and other seafloor ecosystems.
What lives under the sea and sneezes out mucus for fishes to eat? Sponges do, according to aSponges filter dissolved sugars and proteins from the surrounding water. They incorporate these tiny particles that are too small for other animals to eat into their bodies. Scavenging fishes can eat sloughed-off sponge skin and move vital nutrients up the food chain.
This snot trapped bulky particles and carried them down slimy “mucus highways” back towards the intake valves. Every three to eight hours, the sponge contracted its surface to “sneeze” the snot back into the environment.
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