asterina stars.

dorian965 · 02-05-2007, 06:29 PM

i have some in both my tanks. i keep them for a year with no problems until two days ago. i looked in the tank with the lights off and saw about 10 of them chowing down on my kenya trees. they left black spots where they where eating. also saw a white path across on off my sps where they had killed it.

DO NOT KEEP THESE IN YOUR TANK IF YOU WANT CORALS!!!!
i have 2 different species and have observed both eating hard,soft, and lps corals

tims · 02-05-2007, 06:36 PM

know anyone with a sexy shrimp?

YLChik · 02-05-2007, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tims

know anyone with a sexy shrimp?

do sey shrimp eat these?! I knew harlequin ate stars, but to sexy shrimp eat 'em too?

dorian965 · 02-05-2007, 06:50 PM

i was growing the population to hopfully sustain a group of harleguins in the 30gallon but now they have to go.

stang5_o2002 · 02-05-2007, 07:01 PM

I have a billion of those, only mine are a light tan color. I've never seen them even crawl on a coral. I sure hope they dont start. I'll never get em all out.

Geoff · 02-05-2007, 07:25 PM

there are many different species of Asterina stars. some eat coral some eat algae. unfortunately there is no easy way to tell them apart. in most cases the lighter coloured ones are algae, the darker are coral. extremely generalization going on here. if you were to get the two together you can tell other differences, but they are very subtle.

G~