Asterina starfish

[Nu2SW]

I was looking in my refug and saw this white blob of something. So a couple days past and I look at it and its an Asterina sp. starfish. It must of hitchhiked off the LR I got from Ost

I also saw something else on my sand, like a small shrimp or something. Im gonna try to find out what it is.

And It also looks like I have a bunch of small white snails on the glass and a couple in my tank.

Also on the bottom of my refu on the sand I see like this brown pile of stuff that is getting bigger. anyone might know what it is.

 

[Sheldon337]

The starfish are fine.

The shrimp like thing is probably a copepod or a mysis shrimp.

The brown stuff is probably detritus or some kind of algae. Maybe red or brown slime.

Check out www.melevsreef.com for identifications.

Lee

 

[Pico1]

I have tons of those snails too. They mostly come out at dusk though. Never hurt anything of mine.

 

[loup]

watch out for those starfish, i pluck mine out as i see them because I've seen them attached to my lps and eating them

 

[Nu2SW]

Yeha i read up on it a lil bit, saying that it eats some corals, Ill keep an eye out on it.

I cant find it now in the refu.

I was staring at my refu and I saw 2 long bristle worms about an inch and a half long and it is a shrimp. does look like a mysis.only one though.

The white things I looked at touched one and its hard, it scraped off with my nail and was stuck like blued on to the tank... kinda weird.

 

[Sheldon337]

Really the starfish eat lps?

Jeez I have thousands.