a good star or a bad star?

[daisy]

what do you think - is this a zoa-eating star?

 

[MatthewScars]

toss them

 

[daisy]

anybody got a harlequin? I have HUNDREDS of these stars

 

[ming]

asterina, not zoa eating, sometimes found on dying SPS and people blame them for the SPS death, but they're really eating the algae thats growing on the dead SPS

 

[DevIouS]

:sigh:

 

[daisy]

i know it's asternia, but have recently read that there are many types of asternia, and some will munch on zoas... and many months ago, all my zoas disappeared.... have not repopulated yet, but want to at swap...

 

[House of Laughter]

anybody got a harlequin? I have HUNDREDS of these stars

See you today! :shhh:

House

 

[ming]

Never heard of asterina eating zoa, but I heard of a zoa eating spider or zoa eating nudi
But you can get a harlequin to rule out the possibility

 

[DevIouS]

Search the forums Ming....

 

[daisy]

here is what I just pulled off the GLASS of my tank b/4 lights came on.. there are different types here!

 

[DevIouS]

 

[TOTAL AQUARIUMS]

These and emerald crabs get the most bad press of any animal in our tanks, I swear. They're fine unless starfish keyed your car or something and you have a personal vendetta against them. Otherwise let them help clean up the tank.

 

[prattreef]

asterina, not zoa eating, sometimes found on dying SPS and people blame them for the SPS death, but they're really eating the algae thats growing on the dead SPS

+1

 

[BZOFIQ]

I'd leave them alone.

 

[masterswimmer]

asterina, not zoa eating, sometimes found on dying SPS and people blame them for the SPS death, but they're really eating the algae thats growing on the dead SPS

+2, not that you need any reinforcements above and beyond ming and Randy, but I'll throw my towel in the ring too.

swimmer

 

[DevIouS]

:wow:
OK....


I agree! You win!

 

[Deanos]

Asterina Starfish

Predators

Asterinas & Zoanthids

KathyC - yes...that KathyC

 

[daisy]

okay - so i pulled out maybe 200 of them just from off the glass and off the tops of the rocks highest up in my tank. put them in the fuge. (I have a hard time killing anything...)

I will be getting a pair of harleys from HOF once I get my params in check (hopefully later this week!)


Sorry Randy, Russ, Ming - I actually remember that it was shortly after I added these stars that my GARDEN of zoas started to disappear. Not melt - disappear. I just didn't want to believe it. I have not been able to keep zoas for a year now, and I want them again. Stars are out. sigh. I hope some of the mini brittle stars survive! I like those guys a lot!

 

[KathyC]

Asterina Starfish

Predators

Asterinas & Zoanthids

KathyC - yes...that KathyC

Thanks for posting that Dean
Philly...:sigh:..I know, I know... :starfish: :eat: :starfish: ...:banghead:

Tahl...you did the right thing in talking out what stars you could find and the Harley will do a great job of getting rid of the others hidden where you can't see them.
I won't run my 120 without a Harely in there anymore and have NOT lost a single zoa to a mysterious circumstance (aside from the usual zoa deaths from whatever causes them to melt away..but you can see that when it is happening..) since then.

Zoanthid eating asterinas are real and no, not all asterinas eat zoas (far from it) but when you have them, you're screwed.
Better safe than sorry!

 

[prattreef]

If that is the case, then please, please, please give a bunch to me. My tank is overrun with Zoanthids that I don't want and can't get rid of. Let's see what these terrors can do.