Brittle starfish???
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Topic: Brittle starfish???
Posted By: Brandon1985
Subject: Brittle starfish???
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 8:27pm
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So I have ALOT of little stars all over and I think there killing my Zoas Iv seen my zoas go from GREAT to Bad in the last few weeks I thought it was from me cleaning the glass a week ago but Iv seen the little stars all over my zoas now theres a PIX its a cell phone PIX what eats or kills the stars? You cant tell in the PIX but he is Green and brown I have them EVERYWHERE!!  ------------- 24G JBJ Nano with LEDS |
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Posted By: DanhNgo
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 9:51pm
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Brandon - I don't think they are bad you. I have a ton of them in my tank and they are great clean up crew. ------------- 200 Gal Reef 25 Gal Nano Reef |
Posted By: McClure
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 10:37pm
| Harlequin Shrimp will eat starfish |
Posted By: Brandon1985
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 11:09pm
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I all ready have a Harlequin Shrimp they eat the little white stars well if there good ill leave them but it just seems like they are the only thing ill hive it time and see what happens ------------- 24G JBJ Nano with LEDS |
Posted By: Crzyfshguy
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 11:33pm
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yeah these are a great part of your clean up crew and are harmless. Every healthy tank has a bunch, you just normally don't see them. Also harlequins will not touch brittle stars.... ------------- 45G w/ leds 15G sump MP10es |
Posted By: the seanze
Date Posted: March 23 2012 at 11:36pm
| I haven't seen any little brittles in my tank. Will they come from my bigger brittle starfish? |
Posted By: McClure
Date Posted: March 24 2012 at 12:48am
| I did not know they didn't eat brittles..... yay for my daily dose of "learn something new"! |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: March 24 2012 at 9:07am
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Love those stars. Feel free to bring a bag of them at the next meeting! Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 24 2012 at 11:23am
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The Stars are probably cleaning up around the zoanthids or catching and eating whatever is bothering or cleaning. May we see a pic of the Zoanthids to try to help you figure out why they are not doing well? Also post a pic of the entire tank and tell us the Alk and Ca levels. Is anything else doing poorly? ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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