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Posted: October 21 2008 at 9:26pm |
Anyone know what this is? About the size of my pinky fingernail.... 
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Posted: October 21 2008 at 9:26pm |
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The starfishy thing with 6 arms on the right side of rock
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Posted: October 21 2008 at 10:00pm |
Asterina Star. Most are harmless, some are not. I take them out of my tank when I find them. Many other people leave them. Some of them eat SPS.
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Posted: October 21 2008 at 10:09pm |
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he is in my tank with nothing in it except LR. How big do they get? SPS is like digi and green slimer stuff right? I can never keep that straight
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 1:58am |
They don't really get any bigger than that, Cameron
Unless you get some SPS - and - they start bothering it I would just let them be... I have quite a few in my 225 and I have not seen them go anywhere near my SPS corals...
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 6:59am |
Yes he is full grown and those corals you mentioned are SPS (small polyp stony corals.)
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 9:49pm |
As stated many are harmless. I have hundreds of them in my 150 gallon reef at my office. If I stand and count them I can I can get to 100 without even trying. My clients think they are great. They notice them first of anything in the tank. IDIOTS!  
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 10:10pm |
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Lol ok, do they reproduce fairly fast?
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Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:28pm |
yes, and when you get lots you can have a Harlequin Shrimp 
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I dont mean to brag but, yeah it's 6ft long.
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Posted: October 23 2008 at 3:23pm |
They reproduce by growing extra legs, as the one in your pic has done, and then splitting and becoming 2, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, 64, 128,...well you get the idea. 
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