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10-26-2004, 06:49 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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|  What kinda star is this
What kinda star is this.
it is in the bottom of a shot glass.
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[img ]http://www.3reef.com/uploads/Birdsig.jpg[/img]&&75Gal,Jebo 180 skimmer,20Gal Sump/Refuge,cascade 1000 filter filled with cured liverock.&&2clowns,1yellow tang,1 niger trigger,1firefish,1scarlet cleaner,1 emerald crab,,3feather dusters,8green?????,3 blue legged hermit crabs,30 Yellow polyps and one Striped mushroom.30lbs Of live rock so far.
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10-26-2004, 06:57 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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10-26-2004, 08:08 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: What kinda star is this
Nice link AC! _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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10-26-2004, 09:05 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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  | Re: What kinda star is this
The guy from my LFS gave me one just for fun. He told me that they'll clean your tank glass pretty good but they will also chew on hard corals when the glass is clean. And they reproduce like crazy 1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4 type reproduction. He only has one tank that he lets then in, the rest of the tank as soon as he see's one he takes it out. I kept mine cause i don't have any stony corals.
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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10-26-2004, 10:15 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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| Re: What kinda star is this
GARF has a good article about those star fish (in the Aquarium Pests section): http://www.garf.org | |
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10-26-2004, 12:14 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: What kinda star is this
Ron Shimek says....
A few species of stars may be kept successfully in aquaria. Probably the most ubiquitous of these are several (?) small species of cushion stars, possibly in the genus Asterina. These small stars are gray, white, or sometimes mottled with green, and are about one half inch across. They reproduce by fission, and are seldom seen with a complete array of arms. There appear to be three distinct types, which may be different species, found in reef aquaria. The most common variety is one that appears to eat algae and surface films. The second most common variety (although it is quite rare) eats zoanthids and soft corals. The rarest variety of these small white stars eats stony corals. Fortunately, aquarium control of them is pretty easy. They are not the speediest of animals, and if you find you have a type that is causing problems, periodic starfish safaris can generally rid a tank of them.
in his article here http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-04/rs/
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