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			 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. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 Harlequin shrimp should eat them. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 ya and my lunar will eat them 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 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. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 As far as I know they doesn’t eat corals…. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 I put a harlequin shrimp in a tank full of asternia stars and he cleaned then up fairly quickly. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
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			 so I have been killing these stars for 2 weeks now and I cant get a anywhere with them 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
	  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 | 
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