Shrimp to the rescue!

[ynnhoj86]

it was like santa was listening and reading all along LOL thank you MR. MIKE at SEAS for getting this dude in. Mike said he ordered everyone one, but only this one came in, guess ill have to share.

I present: Harlequin shrimp

think he was going after star fish already!

 

[aquaph8]

Next in line.

 

[victornator333]

hes purdy

 

[brettinteriors]

Gorgeous

 

[sillygoose]

What else does he eat? Detritus, etc?

 

[Tucson Reef]

Starfish footsies only, people feed them choclate chip stars to keep them alive

 

[Tucson Reef]

Haven't been in a Reef store of any kind in awhile. Gonna have to get out more. Hope it does the job for you, I'm still picking 2 or 3 a day. Wish there was a bait for the star critters, the eat Acros and coraline algae so impossible to bait.

 

[itsmateo]

Awesome! Looks good in your tank. and Good looking out Mike

 

[ynnhoj86]

saw him today eating a asterina. one down, a zillion left

 

[victornator333]

nom nom nom

 

[99Trev]

I have only seen a couple here and there in my tank, but I know where there is one there are many more. I have also had some daisy polyps that have come up missing. I was thinking it is bristle worms, but now I am wondering if it is asterina. I have had everyone in the house watching for the bristle worms, and have managed to pull out a couple.

 

[savageAJC]

Well I spotted an asterina all over my Millie! Been wondering why my Sps have had chunks and slithers of flesh missing.. Hmmmmm

They've also been all over my t. Neon green toadstool.. And it hasn't opened in days..

 

[Tucson Reef]

Yea, sometimes you'll even see a perfect star shape skeleton on a Acro after they spent the night there

 

[ynnhoj86]

chomp chomp

 

[Tucson Reef]

Cool thanks for posting the pic, I think I'll find one too. I still get 2 to 6 a day so they are still in the rock and will never all come out. I think thats why I never had stars in my old Reef, had a few harliquins in there for about a year. They probably kept them under control and eventualy wiped them out.

 

[Tanque Verde]

These SPS-munchers, are they regular old asterinas or some sort of evil green asterina?

 

[aquaph8]

There were six eating this one little acan colony yesterday. They've also been pestering my Zoa's lately. I dont think my RPE's or nightmares are gonna make it. They didn't bother anything for so long, why now? Johnie do those Shrimp eat brittles too? Ben, yeah its just the regular white ones. The same ones that behaved for years.

 

[Tanque Verde]

:furious:

 

[Tucson Reef]

I've seen them all do it over the years, most times they just eat a spot and move on. Almost impossible to wipe them out by pulling them, never thought Harliquins would touch them. But remember I had a tank without them that I had put a few Harli's in that lived a year or so. I've got them down to only find a few a day now so maybe a couple of shrimp will find the rest.

 

[Tucson Reef]

Got mine today, thanks Mike.

They must put out some bad vibes, couple hours after release, bunch of stars climbing glass near rocks where he went. Mitch Rapp of the reef tank world!