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03-20-2005, 08:05 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west bend, WI,Wisconsin
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 |  what the heck is this?
i saw this on my glass moving its about 1/4 inch from end of arm to the other end of arm what is it ? is it a baby star?
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125 gal, pro clear wet dry with built in skimmer, 2 maxi jet 1200 power heads, outer orbit with 2 150w mh and 2 130w pc, 150 pounds fiji lr, a large carpet anemone, 1 coral bannded shrimp, large colony of stars, 1 yellow tang, 1 naso tang, 1 snowflake eel, 1 koran angel juvi. i sold most of my corals to get the 125 gal tank so basicly starting over. | 
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03-20-2005, 08:14 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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  | Re: what the heck is this?
Yep its a type of starfish. If you have one now give it a couple of weeks and you'll have plenty. They reproduce by splitting and they do it like crazy. i started out with one that my LFS gave me just for fun and now i count about 30 that i can see. They only thing is that they are knowned to eat SPS polyps. So im trying to get them out. Do a search on he threads here and you'll find 2 or 3 about that type of star.
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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03-20-2005, 08:20 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west bend, WI,Wisconsin
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| Re: what the heck is this?
thanks marc. how big do they get. and im guessing they are a bad thing for my reef im trying to start? | |
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03-20-2005, 01:18 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: what the heck is this?
There are SOME that say they may eat coral polyps, but most say they are just detrivores. 
Check here.. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/asterinafaqs.htm _________  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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03-27-2005, 05:02 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: chesterfield, VA,Virginia
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| Re: what the heck is this?
i have a million(well maybe not a million)of these little stars and as far as i can tell they have not touched a thing, i have sps and lps and all type of zoos and 9 clams etc and i have never had a problem with these little stars, i believe they have gotten a bad rap(is gotten a word???)rest easy and enjoy the free stuff. _________ 125 reef, 6 vho,double spinner wet dri,turbo twist 18w uv,custom sea life 1/5 horse chiller,octopus 150 needlewheel skimmer,2 scwds,midwest aquatics sulfur nitrate reactor,jalli 500w titaninum heater,island aquatics calcium reactor,main pump:quiet one 5000,skimmer pump  r 2700 needlewheel,chiller/uv pump:ca 3000.21 moon lights in banks of 3.automatic sump-fill.4 hydor 360 degree flos.1 maxijet modded,1 vortech 3100gph flow pump | |
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03-29-2005, 06:08 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
| Re: what the heck is this?
Thats what the guy at the LFS told me... i dont have any first hand experience since i dont have any LPS or SPS yet. So i guess its one of those personnal experience things... So sorry if i misguided anybody.
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03-29-2005, 01:36 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: ,
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| Re: what the heck is this?
4/5's of a starfish. They don't get much bigger than that. They don't do any harm that I've noticed. They come in on your liverock.
I usually see these right after the lights come on. They run for cover quickly after that. | |
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