There are so many stars

So I woke up this morning, turned on my lights and saw these little orange things in my overflow box. My initial thought was that my little niece threw some crap in the my tank. I looked a bit closer to see that they were a bunch of baby starfish. ;D
What's the possibility of their survival in the tank and how do I keep them alive?
It's hard to get good pics pf such tine creatures but there are a few.

 

Oh how pretty!!!!

 

I can't answer your question - but that is AWESOME!

 

Just put them in the tank they will be fine, no special attention needed.

 

Thanks guys. They do look pretty cool don't they.

Ok great. I was actually thinking of fishing out most of them from the DT and putting them in another one of my tanks that's loaded with all types of algae. Especially the ones tangled up in the filter floss in the first pic. I worry that the ones tangled up my die and cause an ammonia spike.
But I don't want to damage them in the process of moving em.

 

Survival chances are very good. If you have a lot of them they will reproduce and you will have more. Also they aren't babies, that is as large as they get.

I wouldn't worry about an ammonia spike from these guys. I've seen fish waste bigger than them.

Which tank are they in? Your trigger will probably find them to be a tasty treat.

 

They really do stay that small? What kind of stars are they then? I thought that they were red sea stars (Fromia milleporella) because I have at least 5 big ones in my DT.

They're in my reef tank not the tank with either of the triggers.

 

I have the same problem in my tank, but thier not orange, just the regular odd shaped star-fish. I forget the name. To give you an idea of how many I have, I "fish" out about 50 a day and its been 2 weeks already.


Luna

 

So they're undesirable then? And here I am thinking I'm lucky to here these stars reproducing in my tank:
Are they Asterina Stars?

 

I dont have the same "star-fish" as you do, so I cant speak for them. Yes, I have Asterina stars in my tank, thats the name. To be honest, I dont know if their bad, there are mixed emotions out there. All I know is that there where too many in my tank and I lost all my Yellow polyps and their always around my Zoas too. So......."forget about it" "hasta la vista baby".



Luna