New hit hikers!!!

[ConnorG]

So yesterday I took a trip to my LFS and was only going in to buy a new test kit. We walked out with 2 new corals and a peppermint shrimp! Oops! But what we didn't know was we really got the corals the shrimp what I believe is another coral(don't know what it is tho) and 2 red brittle sea stars! Keep in mind that the corals we got were a bright green fluorescent mushroom, and a COLONY of the 8 tenticle star polyps! Literally a 1 pound peice of rock covered in these! For $42! But tonight we were looking at both of them and notices some spiney red arms sticking out of the 2 pieces of rock that the corals came on! We got 2 brittle stars for free! Woohoo!:bounce3::bounce3::bounce3::bounce3::bounce3::bounce3:

 

[ConnorG]

Ok I have since another one! And I am pretty sure they r baby stars because they are very tiny. but they almost look like a thin read/pink arms that slowly rise from the rock and their arms have what looks like little tiny white thin hairs. I just got done watching its arm come up and pull a small star polyp down and bent it in half! Idk if I can get a pic because it is so small and it doesn't come out in the light but I have seen 2 arms on this one. I really don't want these to take over the tank and eat all my fish and I really don't want it to eat corals so how do I figure out what it is? And how do I remove them? I haven't seen a full body yet that's why I'm afraid it's not a star.

PLZ HELP!

 

[ConnorG]

I have just found out my new rock that the coral is encrusted on is home to 5 bristle worms! As well as 3 aptasia anemones my plan for tomarrow is to frag off both mushrooms and a a couple polyps from my star polyps and glue them to a new peice of coralline alge encrusted rock or frag plugs and throw away the rest of the rock and hopefully extinguish the problem

 

[rocking]

connorg if ur going to frag the star polyps can u do 1 more frag and ship it out to me ?
all i can get are the tan

 

[ConnorG]

The ones I have are tan/maroonish with a fluorescent green center. But I will see if I am able to ship them, this will be my first time and I'm not sure how it will go.

 

[tripdad]

Hello Connorg,
Try identifying under micro brittle stars, I have black and white that came with a clavularia colony but red and white are common also. They are usually id'd as harmless and this has been true for me for 2 mos. now. Good luck.

 

[ConnorG]

I ended up just fraging off the polyps and returning the rock because I really didn't like the look of the them basically got a colony for free

 

[Preble]

I get atleast 10 mini stars every time I get a coral from my lfs. I love my lfs here is a picture of one of the ones I got yesterday, its by far the largest mini star I have seen.

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