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11-23-2006, 05:56 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Watervliet, Michigan Age: 37
Posts: 88
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 |  Hitchhikers on my LR
Last week I bought some LR and low and behold I have discovered 2 new additions to the tank. The first one was a white colored snail which looks just like my astrea turbo snails and the other was a tiny starfish which was about 1/4 inch in size. I regret now not taking a pic of the starfish because it is now MIA. Who knows my crabs will probably have it for lunch if they find him. Should I be worried about either of these?
Q
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Tank Contents:
55 gal
30 lbs. LR
70 lbs. LS
1 BTA
2 ocellaris clowns
1 yellow tang
2 3 striped damsels
2 blue reef chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
Yellow polyps
Star polyps
3 hermit crabs
11 snails
*Also have a 12 gal nano cube tank
that houses 1 picasso trigger | 
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11-23-2006, 06:55 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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Maybe some Asterina starfish AsterinaFAQs
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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11-30-2006, 10:48 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Watervliet, Michigan Age: 37
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| Star has reappeared!!
Well not only did the star reappear but it brought another one with it. This pic isnt very clear but hope its atleast visible.
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11-30-2006, 10:56 AM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: St. Louis
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Marc was right on the money. It's a harmless Asterina starfish. _________ Curt  | |
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11-30-2006, 10:57 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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Still leaning towards Asterina starfish for the star fish... the small white snail is probably just a baby snail. I have some in my tank.
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11-30-2006, 11:31 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Watervliet, Michigan Age: 37
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I will snap a pic when it comes out away from the rocks. | |
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11-30-2006, 03:37 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Originally Posted by QTYPIE424  Well not only did the star reappear but it brought another one with it. This pic isnt very clear but hope its atleast visible.
Q | Not to worry about the little star in a few months you will have plenty of them.. As for them being harmless ??? _________ 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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11-30-2006, 04:10 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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To clarify the last message, there are SOME species of asterina that supposedly eat the flesh of sps corals. That being said, I've never had one bother any of my corals. | |
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12-01-2006, 06:13 AM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
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Heck, they eat all kinds of flesh. I had several attack me and started digesting me. My mantis are overprotective and they tried to save my hands and arms to no avail. The Asterina simply kept reproducing via fission and killed all of them off. In fact, the only reason you can read this is because I taught my Labrador Retriever to type before I lost my hands. She's quite skilled at dictation. 
Seriously, Asterina spp. or Asterina sp. is shorthand denoting an entire Genus because it's too difficult to identify down to the species level. I have had many tanks with Asterina sp., I know hundreds of people with marine tanks with Asterina sp. starfish. I only know of one person who had one from a damaging species. That's not to say that yours is not....however, I would say that the odds are greatly in your favor that they are harmless. | |
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12-01-2006, 06:33 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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Originally Posted by inwall75 Heck, they eat all kinds of flesh. I had several attack me and started digesting me. My mantis are overprotective and they tried to save my hands and arms to no avail. The Asterina simply kept reproducing via fission and killed all of them off. In fact, the only reason you can read this is because I taught my Labrador Retriever to type before I lost my hands. She's quite skilled at dictation. |  | |
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