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06-24-2007, 11:29 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Apr 2007
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 |  little white brittle star
they measure only about 1/2" they look like baby brittle stars. is that what they are or are they something else and should i worry about them. could that be just a hitch hiker on a coral i picked up and nothing to worry about? mainly im thinking there baby brittle's cant seem to find one when ever i have a camara handy but. they look like a really small white brittle star. _________  and yes those are my zoa's in that pic.
60gal salt water tank. live rock yea i got that.(not sure how much) live sand im guessing about 70lbs natulas proteenskimer uv filter sumptank w/ bio bio balls eheim canster filter 2 heaters 1/10 chiller firefish 2 scissortail dartfish a yellow and a blue tang watchtower goby coral beuty red wrasse tomato clown bicolor blenny and some coral | 
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06-24-2007, 11:38 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Feb 2007
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dunno what they are called but i used to have a solid pink coraline algee back glass'
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06-25-2007, 02:01 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Yup, they are mini Brittle Sea Stars and if you have live rock, chances are you have these as well that come via hitchhiking on your live rock. Definitely beneficial to your tank! The more the better...
Cool, be glad you have them Bill! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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07-02-2007, 02:52 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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i have them and they are good to have.several people bugged me till i gave them some of mine. | |
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07-09-2007, 07:25 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Apr 2007
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that is what i thought they were. but wanted to make sure better safe than sorry thank you everyone | |
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08-23-2007, 12:16 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: IL Age: 34
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Do you have any pics of these. I have a tons of them and they have leveled my coral to death. My acro and mushrooms are all gone from these little things. I have been sucking them out of my tank for about 2 months now. Looking for a Harlquin shrimp to get rid of them for me. | |
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08-23-2007, 01:06 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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I think that what you're talking about is an asterina star. | |
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08-24-2007, 05:21 PM
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| | Zoanthid
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ontario, canada
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Ya Asterina's eat corals not brittle stars. I just started noticing a month ago that I have tons of brittles in my substrate. I want to catch some and put them in my hubby's tank but it's hard to get them out of CC. _________ 20g
25lbs LR
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rio nano skimmer FISH: blk/white clown, damsel, yellow watchman goby CORAL: grn open brain, acan, torch, rics, toadstool, zoo's
INVERT:[/u] hermits, nassarius, astrea, turbo's, nerites, crocea clam
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08-24-2007, 09:16 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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if you catch them one at a time and put them in another tank they often just die.you need to just scoop some of the cc up that their in and dump it in the other tank.i put a net bag of course ceramic in my tank for a few days then transfer it to the tank i want it in.
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08-25-2007, 11:59 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nemo79  Ya Asterina's eat corals | Not all of them eat corals. I've had a ton of these starfish and they've never bothered anything. There supposedly is a variety of asterinas that do eat corals but I've never seen them and I don't think that they hitchike into our aquariums too often. | |
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