about 100+ little starfishes

[dimsumboi127]

hi everyone,

i have a 125g reef tanks, and lately ive been seeing more and more of those little starfishes on the back and on the glass of my tank. is there any way i can get rid of those besides grabbing them out one by one. and are they good or bad for my tank?

 

[Lightsluvr]

Harlequin shrimp

Some of the little stars eat algae, others appear to prefer coralline... more than few is too many for my tastes...

LL

 

[zooty]

asterina starfish

harmless
I'd leave them in

 

[dennisdeng2002]

It would probably be more of a hassle to remove them, they're very similar to MT snails in FW tanks, they just keep reproducing so you should use the aforementioned Harlequin shrimps to naturally remove them.

 

[Lightsluvr]

Harmess until you see them on your coralline covered rocks, and the coralline is receding...

LL

 

[brookers]

i remember when i had about 100 of these, now i have about 1,000,000 of them and i wish id spent time getting them out manually.
my coraline is looking all patchy and every morning i'm greeted with litrally hundreds of these all over the glass.
cant use a harliquin shrimp either as it would just be an expensive meal for one or two of my fish......get them out while you can !