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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Marine Biology Volume 2012, Article ID 417360, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/417360 Research Article Sponge Farming Trials: Survival, Attachment, and Growth of Two Indo-Pacific Sponges, Neopetrosia sp. and Stylissa massa ¨ Karin Schiefenhovel and Andreas Kunzmann Department of WG Ecophysiology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstraβe 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to Andreas Kunzmann, andreas.kunzmann@zmt-bremen.de Received 20 March 2012; Revised 1 June 2012; Accepted 3 June 2012 Academic Editor: Wen-Xiong Wang ¨ Copyright © 2012 K. Schiefenhovel and A. Kunzmann. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sponges, an important part of the reef ecosystem, are of commercial value for public aquaria, pharmacology and chemistry. With the growing demand for sponges, natural resources are at risk of being overexploited. Growing of sponges in artificial or semi natural farms is an alternative. In this study different farming methods were tested on two Indo-Pacific sponge species, Neopetrosia sp. and Stylissa massa. Survival, growth and attachment ability were observed with different substrates (suspended ropes, coral boulders and artificial substrate), two types of aquaria with different water volume and two different field sites in Indonesia. The two species responded differently to their individual locations and environmental stresses. Survival, growth and attachment rates of Neopetrosia sp. at the field site are depending on the cultivation method, we found hig