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bowkry
07-17-2009, 01:01 AM
what is this and why is it eating my coral???
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Asterina sp. Many varieties and many opinions. Since it is obvious these ones are eating your corals it is time to remove them as you see them. Flush.
xtreme
07-17-2009, 01:09 AM
Harlequin shrimp should eat them.
bowkry
07-17-2009, 01:12 AM
ya and my lunar will eat them
bowkry
07-18-2009, 02:51 PM
now since I found those ones I have been checking every one of my corals is any bad sections and those star fish are every where!!! Does any one have any ideas how to kill them. I have been pulling corals out and removing them but there is thousands, and I cant tell the dif the good ones from the bad so they all go.
Navarchus
07-18-2009, 03:52 PM
As far as I know they doesn’t eat corals….
chandigz
07-18-2009, 04:55 PM
I put a harlequin shrimp in a tank full of asternia stars and he cleaned then up fairly quickly.
bowkry
07-26-2009, 02:28 PM
so I have been killing these stars for 2 weeks now and I cant get a anywhere with them:evil: I have a fish trap and a net in the tank trieng to get my lunar out so I can put a shrimp in there but he is smart. I am ready to rip all my rock out to get him but good god:sad: A trigger should distroy them wouldn't they!!!
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