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View Poll Results: Do you think these starfish are eating my montiporas? | |
Yes.
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Not Sure.
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08-10-2005, 11:25 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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|  Re: Pics of my montipora getting mowed by asterina starfish
lol i dont know u need a movement detector for ur camera and catch him red handed! _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
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08-11-2005, 01:48 AM
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| | Sailfin Tang
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: SF/Monterey Bay Area, CA
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 | Re: Pics of my montipora getting mowed by asterina starfish
guilty 
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Feeding the reef... one polyp at a time... | |
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08-11-2005, 04:33 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 41
Posts: 2,947
| Re: Pics of my montipora getting mowed by asterina starfish
I have a curious question,....I read somewhere (I think it was WWM,) that the asterinas with 6 legs are safe, while the ones with 7 legs are predatorial...
How many legs does yours have? I would say remove the suckah! _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch | |
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08-11-2005, 08:38 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,339
   | Re: Pics of my montipora getting mowed by asterina starfish
Thanks guys (and gal  ) ... that's interesting Sue.. I think going by that pic, that mine have 7 legs?
I just looked in my tank at that montipora in the pic and the trail he left is still bone white, but polyps around it are extended.. hmm... | |
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08-11-2005, 10:17 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Overland Park, Kansas
Posts: 202
Karma: 31
| Re: Pics of my montipora getting mowed by asterina starfish
When in doubt, GET IT OUT! Why risk your coral? _________ -Mickey 175g Bowfront - 75g Refugium - 100g Sump - 3 Phoenix 14k 250W MH - AquaC EV240 Skimmer - 240lbs Haitian Live Rock - 4" DSB - Red Velvet Fairy Wrasse - Azure Damsel - Banggia Cardinal - Firefish Goby - Blackcap Basslet - Purple Tang - Powder Brown Tang - Regal Tang - Green Manderin - 2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - 2 Peppermint Shrimp - 2 Emerald Crabs - Rose BTA - Orange Linkia - Tuxedo Urchin - Spiney Urchin (hitchhiker) | |
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05-06-2007, 03:27 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,605
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Hi Matt,
Did these guys multiply on you? - If so, did you discover any way to get rid of them? They definetly like to chew on polyps and soft corals.
The best I can do is remove them when they get on glass.
Got a sixline in hope it might develope taste for little ones. Only thought I have.
Scott _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | |
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05-06-2007, 03:57 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 3,663
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I have yet to ever see one of these stars to harm anything .. What I do find is when you see them on a coral its feeding on the base where the detritus and maybe some sloughed off dead flesh is.
But I have myself never witnessed them feeding up on any LPS or SPS coral above the corals base, Now on some leathers I have seen them up on the cloral to be what I think was eating off dead flesh nothing was ever harmed.
But even on a soft they still tend to settle out around the base of these even. Not saying they won't Harm anything ? But to date I have yet talked to a single person who'd I consider knowing what they where talking about to ever say they had seen these mutant stars doing any harm first hand themselves.
A few site where all up in arms with them a few yrs ago and even touted the use of Harlequin shrimps to control them But again I have never seen a Harlequin to ever touch one of them ..I had them all over the tanks and I had the Harlequins also _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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05-06-2007, 04:28 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 4,605
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tangster  I have yet to ever see one of these stars to harm anything ... |
Well the "version" I have in my tank, likes to eat sarcophyton - have watched one eating a edge and putting holes in one of mine.
Also my yellow zoanthids have been slowly disappearing ever since these little buggers started showing up in my tank. 
I WANT THEM GONE!!!::mad: :mad: :mad:
Scott OmarD Silverdale, WA  | |
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