can starfish carry crypto cysts?

[SeeCrabRun]

I've spent the last half hour looking for an answer but I've not found anything.

Can harder bodied starfish like sand sifters carry dormant crypto cysts?

 

[JoelA7]

I would assume so. At this point I think of crypto as the devil.

 

[Dmorty217]

I've spent the last half hour looking for an answer but I've not found anything.

Can harder bodied starfish like sand sifters carry dormant crypto cysts?

Yes ANYTHING wet can harbor disease

 

[andy01748]

Ich won't encyst on asterias starfish. Not sure about other species.

 

[Spar]

Ich won't encyst on asterias starfish. Not sure about other species.

curious how this is known?

 

[andy01748]

curious how this is known?

Burgess, 1992. http://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/pearl_jspui/bitstream/10026.1/2632/1/PETER JOHN BURGESS.PDF

 

[Dmorty217]

Not worth the risk IMO, corals can harbor disease and so can snails, rock and sand so I wouldn't chance it with a starfish... Don't plan on reading the 330+ page article that was sited right this second but I'm sure there is good info in it

 

[ThRoewer]

Burgess, 1992. http://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/pearl_jspui/bitstream/10026.1/2632/1/PETER JOHN BURGESS.PDF

Nice! I was looking for that.

 

[Deinonych]

Nice! I was looking for that.

+1

Great find.