Mini bristlestars on sps

[Tracey2]

Everything I read about these little stars is good, that they are great clean up crew etc. I have pulled a couple of sps lately that were not looking healthy and gave them a coral revive bath and had about 50 birstlestarts comes off the coral, anyone know if they eat sps?

 

[Finland]

I have hundreds mini brittles in my tank. I have never seen them on a healthy coral. They like to go on the dead spots of corals that died on me though. I think they were feeding off the dying parts. When you dipped, did they come off the coral or the rock it was mounted on?

 

[Bigcefa]

The white ones seem to be ok but I've had problems with the darker ones , I've seen them on coral with dead spots or dying. Whether they were eating it or cleaning up the dead spots I'm not positive but I don't trust them

 

[Tracey2]

I'm talking about the birstlestars with long legs, black/brown in colour.

They were on the coral not the rock but you could be right that the coral was dying and they were feeding on the dead tissue. I dipped a couple of healthy looking corals and there weren't as many on them but I had about 50 of them come off one large acro that looks poor.

 

[polywise]

do you have any pictures?

 

[floridascape]

dip your power heads and watch the genocide, it's insane they love my powerheads?