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    Posted: March 23 2012 at 8:27pm
So I have ALOT of little stars all over and I think there killing my Zoas Iv seen my zoas go from GREAT to Bad in the last few weeks I thought it was from me cleaning the glass a week ago but Iv seen the little stars all over my zoas now theres a PIX its a cell phone PIX what eats or kills the stars?
You cant tell in the PIX but he is Green and brown I have them EVERYWHERE!!


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Brandon - I don't think they are bad you. I have a ton of them in my tank and they are great clean up crew.
 
 
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Harlequin Shrimp will eat starfish
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I all ready have a Harlequin Shrimp they eat the little white stars well if there good ill leave them but it just seems like they are the only thing ill hive it time and see what happens
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yeah these are a great part of your clean up crew and are harmless. Every healthy tank has a bunch, you just normally don't see them.

Also harlequins will not touch brittle stars....
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I haven't seen any little brittles in my tank. Will they come from my bigger brittle starfish?
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I did not know they didn't eat brittles..... yay for my daily dose of "learn something new"!

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Love those stars. Feel free to bring a bag of them at the next meeting!

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The Stars are probably cleaning up around the zoanthids or catching and eating whatever is bothering or cleaning.
May we see a pic of the Zoanthids to try to help you figure out why they are not doing well?
Also post a pic of the entire tank and tell us the Alk and Ca levels.
Is anything else doing poorly?
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