Starfish Outbreak!!

[Scavenger]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Sounds like a species of asterina starfish.

Thanks Beverly I think you are right. I just googled asterina starfish after reading your response and got wetwebmedia. The pix and writeups, seem to be right on the money. Seems some think they are and others think them not reefsafe. I'll just keep my eyes on these guys I guess.

[Ruth]

I have also been noticing those same stars in one of my tanks for the last 2 or 3 months. Same here - established tank - no new additions so who knows where they came from.

[G1GY]

I've had lots of them in my tank for a long time and have never seen them eating corals.(I do see them on the stalks of frogspawn and hammer coral sometimes.) It seems like they spend their time on the glass and rock grazing on algae for the most part.

If you don't keep any other kind of starfish........... You might have a good enough supply to add a harliquin shrimp.

[KrazyKuch]

Yeah have a couple of those aswell!!!

[Richard_Dicosimo]

Not only do I have those little white starfish, but every time I feed about a million baby brittle starfish tentacles appear out of every crevasse of every rock I have!

Richard