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Vinny Kreyling
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Starfish, no problem unless it multiplies into hundreds & you have corals.
I had a large starfish about a year ago but it disappeared presumed dead . But nothing since and haven't added anything to the tank in 9 months
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Vinny Kreyling
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Looks like a plant spreading for new territory & the feelers are the root system.
Vinny Kreyling
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Macro Algae.
Pull on it & you will see where it goes.
Pull on it & you will see where it goes.
Sawblade caulerpa. I agree, it looks too big to be an asterina. Also there's only one, right? Your long lost sea star?
Ye that appears to be it should I be worried ? Ye its def a starfish . I had a chocolate chip starfish a large one that I thought died cause disappeared
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It's not a terribly invasive caulerpa, so not a huge worry. However, with it growing on your rocks it will be difficult to remove completely, should you decide to. I had some growing on sand and it was easily removed.
I'm definitely no sea star expert, but it looks kinda like a chocolate chip sea star.
I had a similar situation with an anemone. It disappeared, presumed dead. Months later I found it, and it was much smaller. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but similar. A better comparison would be a shrinking sea cucumber. In many aquariums, there just isn't enough food to support even one cucumber. So they gradually shrink down to nothing and disappear. I suspect this happened with your choc-chip star. It starved, shrank and disappeared. Now your tank has matured and maybe produces more star-food.
From Wikipedia: Horned sea stars seem to be opportunistic carnivores; adults are known to prey on most sessile life forms including hard corals and sponges in aquarium. In this same setting, they will hunt down snails and eat them.
I'm definitely no sea star expert, but it looks kinda like a chocolate chip sea star.
I had a similar situation with an anemone. It disappeared, presumed dead. Months later I found it, and it was much smaller. Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but similar. A better comparison would be a shrinking sea cucumber. In many aquariums, there just isn't enough food to support even one cucumber. So they gradually shrink down to nothing and disappear. I suspect this happened with your choc-chip star. It starved, shrank and disappeared. Now your tank has matured and maybe produces more star-food.
From Wikipedia: Horned sea stars seem to be opportunistic carnivores; adults are known to prey on most sessile life forms including hard corals and sponges in aquarium. In this same setting, they will hunt down snails and eat them.
