spiders??

[steamboatwv]

ok i have 2 pics but not sure how well you can see the spiders on them they are only about the size of a dime, my question is how bad are they for the tank and am i going to have to find a way to chase them down or will one of the fish eat them "hopefully" I just got these star polyps today and figured i would check them after dark for any hitchers. well guess i have a couple, i only seen 2 and they darted into the polyps after i took the pics.

[dobejazz]

Sorry I can't really tell what it is it does look like a spider though

[steamboatwv]

oh it is for sure a spider i caught one of them and flushed it lol, i checked the hitchers sites that i could find but cant find what they eat and if they are a danger, or if there are fish that will eat them so i dont have to go moving things around again trying to catch them... any suggestions would be nice. but it is for sure a seaspider here is the pic that was on the hitcher site and its exactly the same as the one i caught but there is at least one more that i could find and couldnt catch without aggrivating my starpolyps...

[LeslieH]

Yup, it's a pycnogonid otherwise known as a sea spider. They're mostly carnivores and some do feed on corals. Some fish will eat them but you might want to simply pick them out whenever you see them.

[JY13131]

Ick!!!

[steamboatwv]

Originally Posted by LeslieH

Yup, it's a pycnogonid otherwise known as a sea spider. They're mostly carnivores and some do feed on corals. Some fish will eat them but you might want to simply pick them out whenever you see them.

ok thanks, first i have seen one other than pictures and just worried me....

[ChrisPrusha]

Kinda cool looking!!