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06-28-2006, 11:08 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cumming, GA
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baby starfish in sump
Coolest thing happened today! I was just checking out the tank/pumps etc...and saw this small cream colored thing on the glass of the refugium.....its a baby starfish!! About 1 cm in size and the shape of a star. I guess it is from part of our starfish in the main tank. It looks kinda like a sandsifting starfish which is what we have in the main tank.
Should I move it into the main tank?? Or leave it??? I am nervous I won't be able to find it for a while once it buries itself in the sand. I guess that is o.k. too.
I am trying to find our camera to take a picture of it. As soon as I find the camera I will post a pic.
(BTW also found a baby kenya tree frag growing on a rock in the sump)
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06-28-2006, 11:16 AM
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Country Living
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ontario, Canada
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If it has more or less than 5 legs, it's probably an asternia starfish.
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06-28-2006, 11:22 AM
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Tang Lover
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rockville, MD
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if you get a pic of it, we can (hopefully) tell you if it's a good one, or a bad one (rarer). At which point you can move it out of the sump, and up into the display!
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06-28-2006, 11:23 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cumming, GA
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It has 6 legs. I am still looking for the camera.....
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06-28-2006, 11:25 AM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Tampa, Florida
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May want to take it out of the tank while you can see him and put him in a coffee cup with some tank water until we can ID him.
Tim
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06-28-2006, 12:08 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cumming, GA
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Here is a blurry picture. I hope the link works!
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06-28-2006, 12:11 PM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Tampa, Florida
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If i am not mistaken i think that is the kind you dont want in your system i believe they eat SPS corals.
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06-28-2006, 12:30 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cumming, GA
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This may be a better picture. Here he is in the bottom of a coffee mug.
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06-28-2006, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: spartanburg, south carolina
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That does look like an asterina starfish, I had a couple in my tank as well. I've read that they are usually algae eaters but some of them may eat corals. The general advice that I got was to go ahead and remove them if you don't want to take a chance. I got one of them out yesterday, the other was on the back glass and I'm waiting for him to pop back out to fish him out. HTH
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06-28-2006, 01:07 PM
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TCMAS Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: River Falls, WI
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Asterina Starfish. They are quite prolific and it is debatable whether they are good or bad.
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06-28-2006, 02:28 PM
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Stinky Slimey FEESH
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: San Antonio
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It's an asterina. I found a bunch of them in my nanocube, picked them out and they live in my sump now....wasn't sure if they were bad or not!
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06-28-2006, 02:33 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cumming, GA
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I guess I will throw him out. Thanks for the advice. I hope i don't get any more!
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06-28-2006, 05:40 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Waseca,MN
Posts: 1,443
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Don't toss him....I had these appear in my 125 on some LR...they soon multiplied like crazy. They never bothered anything, and were pretty cool. I bought a Harlequin to control the populations and have really enjoyed both the shrimp and hte stars
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