Little star fish

[Teknagen]

I have an outbreak of those stars too! There are hundreds of baby stars that I can see on the tank walls probably thousands I can't see.

The biggest one so far is 1" and it looks like deformed star.

 

[gho]

woops...

 

[gho]

Those things drove me nuts when I was setting up my tank. I caught as many as I could scraping them into a net. They started thining out, and I vigillently caught every single one I found.

My daughter even helped me - Daddy! Starfish!

Took me a couple of weeks go get every single last one of them, but they're finally cleared out. I ocassinally get one here and there, and promply pluck it out.

And to think... I originally thought they were "cute!"

 

[Teknagen]

Atleast yours are shaped nicely mines are deformed stars! 6-7 uneven legs

 

[gho]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9404663#post9404663 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Teknagen
Atleast yours are shaped nicely mines are deformed stars! 6-7 uneven legs

Must be the shrimp... Hehe

 

[billyzbear]

I looked real close and I do notice a major decline in my snail count. I use to have atleast a hundred of the little guys. They must be getting starved out. It seems the stars reproduce faster. I have no algae anywhere except some diatoms on the glass that I clean off but not that much. I just don't want them stealing food from may corals like I'm seeing them do.

 

[coast2coast7390]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9404663#post9404663 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Teknagen
Atleast yours are shaped nicely mines are deformed stars! 6-7 uneven legs

i think thats the way they reproduce...by dropping a leg becaue i had the same thing happen to me they all had diffrent sized legs

 

[billyzbear]

I talked with my LFS about these stars and she told me they also eat coraline algae.

 

[phishx]

FRY EM... taste GREAT with Garlic!