asternia eating fish?

[Eyore]

any possible potentials?

a harelequin shrimp is unlikely to remain uneaten with my melarus in particular

invert safe is not a concern, sps and lps is

 

[RDtrack]

I have a melenarus with my pair of harlequin. But then again I had cleaner shrimp in before I added the melenarus. Also they wiped out my issue in three weeks.

 

[Eyore]

thankyou

any more have positive or negative experience with halicoeris wrasse, your post is appreciated as a "straw poll" as it were

i have never heard of an asternia eating fish personally so the chances are slim on this, but you never know, i may have missed something or somebody may have dropped on something by luck

 

[Dmorty217]

There aren't any fish that eat them but there is a starfish that you can get every now and again that eats them. Sorry that I'm no help in remembering the name of the star at this time but I'm sure a google search will answer that question

 

[MattyO]

I have a little Toby Puffer, he picks at them and keeps them in check. Not sure on the rest of ur tank but starfish are a natural prey item for them.

 

[tc2007]

How many asternia do you have? From what I read and my own experience, they aren't that bad. I never saw them on my zoas or LPS before. I did see them around them or on the glass but never munching on the corals. There haven't been any real proof of them eating corals. So unless they are too many and becoming a eyesore why bother?

 

[Betta132]

Whatever you do, don't get something that only eats a pest. Said thing will eat all of the pest and then starve.

 

[Eyore]

lets say that if my observations over a lengthy period did not promote me towards a genuine feeling of need- i wouldn't be asking the question:rollface:

 

[Toddrtrex]

Not sure if it coincided with natural population swings, but I have noticed this twice.

Had a bunch in my 75, added both a potter's dwarf and an C. deborai within weeks didn't see any of them on the glass or rocks. After a screw up on my part, I lost both of those angels. Within a month, the tank was covered in them.
When I added an C. venustus and C. acanthops they disappeared again within weeks of being added.

 

[snorvich]

Todd has a very interesting empirical observation. Anyone else notice this?

 

[Moort82]

Todd has a very interesting empirical observation. Anyone else notice this?

Not personally witnessed this but I have heard the same observation with a potter's angel before. We could only come up with the angel removing their main food source through pecking at the rockwork.

 

[criticalencore]

I had read in a thread here that had pics of his linkia starfish eating them. He had time lapsed pics of it eating them. I'm tagging along because I have thousands