Chocolate chip starfish. Reef safe?

[piranhaking]

the title says it all..............

 

[Petie]

Afraid not.

 

[piranhaking]

thats a shame, they are so cool looking. I was hoping to put one in the tank at school. Oh well.

 

[Mndrsn2000]

I have had mine for almost 6months in my reef and it just scoots around the bottom.

 

[sushistix]

Mine now lives in the fuge becuase he was not.

 

[RicksReefs]

definitely not reef safe, they eat coral.

 

[Pandora]

Definitely not reef safe. I see some people unknowingly put them in reefs before they know better, eventually with disastrous results.

 

[BlackOnyx]

No but their definately Harlequin Shrimp safe!!!!!

 

[Pandora]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6754721#post6754721 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BlackOnyx
No but their definately Harlequin Shrimp safe!!!!!

That's not true either. Some harlequins don't eat them as readily as genus Linkia, but they can adapt to eat them when there isn't availability of the other. I would not trust them around choc chips.

 

[BlackOnyx]

Guess most harlequins arent 3" either mine was huge!!!

 

[Andrew]

I used to have a chocolate chip star and he ate the foot of my anemone. I hated that thing.

 

[whiirly]

I had one in my reef for ovcer a year with out any issues then all of the sudden he started messing with my coral so now he lives in my bro-in-laws FOwLR

 

[Infern0]

Even if you have one in with a reef and it appears to not be messing with it, you have to be careful because some corals will start to emit some toxin that could be bad for certain things in your tank. I think I heard the same thing about mixing certain types of corals...I don't know the exact physics of this, but something to look into if you're tempting the rules of nature. ; )

 

[marilynrn711]

Had mine for a year too and then he turned postal. Took him back to the LFS.