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12-18-2005, 07:08 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west bend, WI,Wisconsin
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 |  baby brittle????
last night my tank lights were out and my son turned 1 light on. he called me to hurry and look and to my surprise i saw what looked like a baby brittle or serpent star. its about a the size of a pea. could my brittle had a baby? i only have 1 and had him for a year so i think not. is there a brittle or serpent that is that small that was living in my live rock this whole time? it is also white in color.
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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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12-18-2005, 07:51 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Lancaster, WI,Wisconsin
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It is probably a hitchhiker star. I have alot of them. They dont get any bigger. Kind of fun to watch. How much liverock do you have? You probably have more in there than you think. | |
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12-18-2005, 11:58 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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Yup, I have one of those. Has 6 legs, is white and has tiny black vertical markings. Looks like a brittle, but just might be another species, this thing was tiny, the center of his body was probably bigger than an ordinary dot. I saw him cruising my rear glass looking for rockwork. I still haven't found what species it is exactly. Hopefully it's harmless.
My bro got these nasty tiny stars as hitchikers that were munching on his corraline algea, luckily, he managed to get one out.
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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12-18-2005, 01:04 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I have a species that gets as big as a quarter. There were hunderds in my tank befor I moved.
Jay
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60 Gal Acrylic, 30 Gal Acrylic, 55 Gal Glass.
Remora skimmers, 440 Watts VHO URI's. Mag canister for carbon. 90 Pounds liverock, 100 pounds live sand DSB, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Clown Percula, Royal Gramma, Domino Damsel. Pulsing Xenia, Devils Hand Leather, Frogspawns, Torches, Hammers, Fox Corals, Gorgonias, Various Zoanuthus, Favietes, Toxic Green Star Polyps. Candy Cane corals, Purple Indica. | |
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12-18-2005, 03:03 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
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Got to love those mini-brittles. 
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46 gallon bow front, 62lbs Fiji/Tonga live rock, 312 watts T-5 lighting, 75lbs sand. Seaclone 100.
Emerald Crab, Blue Leg hermits, Astrea Snails, Sand Sifting Star, Mini Brittles, 2 Ocellaris Clowns, 2 Blue-Green Chromis, 2 Yellowtail Damsels, 1 Blue Damsel, Sebae Anemone(getting huge).
Button Polyps, Starburst polyps, Sunburst polyps, Pink Polyps,Teal Polyps, Green Polyps, Galaxea, Green Goniopora, Red Shroom, Green/Blue Ricordea shrooms, Green Blastomussa Merletti. | |
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12-18-2005, 06:11 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by billrwilson last night my tank lights were out and my son turned 1 light on. he called me to hurry and look and to my surprise i saw what looked like a baby brittle or serpent star. its about a the size of a pea. could my brittle had a baby? i only have 1 and had him for a year so i think not. is there a brittle or serpent that is that small that was living in my live rock this whole time? it is also white in color. | Can't say much other than what has already been said. Just watch it and drop a very small piece of clam or squid in for it about 2x a week and watch it grow. If you notice that it is starting to eat stuff that you do not want eaten--pull it out and do what you see fit for it.
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