pests

ok, since my wife and I attended the freak in your tank show, we now see the things in here.  I have a small cup FULL of the little starfish, white ones, and greenish ones.  We pulled 20 of them off of the corals in the frag tank tonight.The tiny ones that everyone says eats the corals.  We are picking them off at a rapid rate now.  I set up a frag tank to be my quarantine tank, and moved all of my corals into it preparing to move the rock and fish into the new tank.  I have damaged or killed too many corals moving rocks before.  I don't want to risk anyone getting smashed in the move.

Here is the other thing that has happened. is there is what looks like baby brittle stars falling to the sand beneath the frag rack.  I took a pic of one, they are tiny, but have the round body of a brittle star and look to be brown.  I am attaching the pic of it. Hope you can see it.  Anyone know if it is brittle stars?  They seem to be dying and falling into the sand.  OR is it a new pest I picked up somewhere??? 

And, oh guru of hte bugs, will the bayer dip kill the damn little starfish?  or do I just need to keep hunting them down?  is it true they do hurt the corals?

Mac the starfish slayer!!!

OK Nikki, what is it?  do I keep them or kill them?  And do I get psycho on getting rid of the little tiny starfish?  if I do get psycho on them, what is your weapon of suggestion?   The Bayer dip, flame thrower, thermo-nuclear device, 380 hollow points??????  you get the idea.   :-)

lol.  I really wasn't freaking out.  Just trying to be funny.

I have only seen 2 of the micro brittle stars.  Is that what they really are?

and it isn't me who starting wanting to hunt down and find all of the little tiny starfish, it was my wife.

bmac2 wrote: Besides Molli, YOU are the one who scared the hell out of the boss about the critters in the dark tank.  NOW all she does is stand at the tank hunting for bugs.

haha .. no reason to be scared if you quarantine   I got scared when I first joined this site after reading numerous posts from people asking for help in how to get rid of "bad" critters .. I figured out that for me, quarantining is the way to go!  That's not for everyone .. its just an easier solution for me.  Now once I find a bad critter in my quarantine tank I still have to figure out what to do about it, but at least its not spreading about in my display tank!

I want to see the "Hollow Point" method!!!

I think a presentation of good hitch hikers is an excellent idea.  That way you can help us decide what is good and what is bad.  My wife is looking at everything that moves as possible evil.