Are there any reef safe starfish?

[my2rotties]

They are NOT reef safe. My bubble coral is half gone now that the halides ore on. It is a bare skeleton on the right hand side. SO far the left is out, but I am not sure if it can or will survive such a thing. I am not sure if it can regrow at where it was eaten or not, time will tell I guess.

The one ate a mushroom at $10 for the head and a ricordia head that was $20 the other got my bubble which was $80, pretty expensive lesson for me.

I am sicker the a dog today but a trip to the city to rehome them will be happening. I don't even want them in my sump since they might end up plugging a pump or something else in the near future. They were model citizens for about 5-6 weeks though.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

That's a really good way of putting it. I find there are two categories of star: 1) it's not really reef safe (of varying degrees depending on type); or, 2) we don't really know what it eats (so hit and miss whether they adapt to whatever slimes they find in our tanks). Think I've tried 3 blue linckia's ("linkia" 's ? I never know how to spell it) and one lived about 20 months, but the other two lived very short lives (a couple months tops). I tried a red Fromia, same thing, only a couple weeks, and a purple linkia (not a linkia per se but looks just like it, I forget the latin on it), same thing, only a couple months and then it literally tore itself apart and I had 5 individual arms crawling around the tank until they eventually disappeared.

I don't bother trying stars anymore.

It's funny, I've heard the claim now a couple times that pillow stars are safe. I don't know, I get the heebie-jeebies just looking at them, how can they possibly be reef-safe? I don't believe it. Guess it depends on one's definition of "reef safe"...