Starfish
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Topic: Starfish
Posted By: Cameron
Subject: Starfish
Date Posted: October 21 2008 at 9:26pm
Anyone know what this is? About the size of my pinky fingernail.... ------------- [COLOR="Red"](801)664-4240 |
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Posted By: Cameron
Date Posted: October 21 2008 at 9:26pm
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The starfishy thing with 6 arms on the right side of rock ------------- [COLOR="Red"](801)664-4240 |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: October 21 2008 at 10:00pm
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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 By: Cameron
Date 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 ------------- [COLOR="Red"](801)664-4240 |
Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 1:58am
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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... ------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 6:59am
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Yes he is full grown and those corals you mentioned are SPS (small polyp stony corals.)
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Posted By: Will Spencer
Date 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 By: Cameron
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 10:10pm
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Lol ok, do they reproduce fairly fast? ------------- [COLOR="Red"](801)664-4240 |
Posted By: Rioreefer
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 11:28pm
yes, and when you get lots you can have a Harlequin Shrimp ------------- I dont mean to brag but, yeah it's 6ft long. |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date 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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