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03/08/2010, 06:53 AM
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Identify this Sea Star/Serpent/HitchHiker???
I took a peice of LR out to drill some shrooms and I found about 20 of these
    What are they? Good or bad?
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03/08/2010, 06:57 AM
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I found this link and they say they eat detritus and clean the LR.
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/brittlestars.htm I put the ones on that rock in the fuge just to be safe. Seems like if they were 20 on that one rock, then there are bound to be more in the DT.
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03/08/2010, 08:18 AM
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Those little guys wont hurt anything, I bet I got 1000 or more in mine. You can look close at live rock and see them waving their little tentacles in the current trying to catch food.
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03/08/2010, 08:24 AM
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those all appear to be small serpent stars. as was mentioned above, they are GOOD! The orange/brown thing in your 3rd pic is a bristle worm - the ones that size are fine in your tank - they will help keep things cleaned up as well.
All Good - leave them be
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03/08/2010, 08:33 AM
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The mini serpent starfish are great additions to your clean up crew. I intentionally hunted out frags when I started adding livestock to my tanks that had them in/on them. Over a year later I have thriving populations of them in my tanks.
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03/08/2010, 10:25 AM
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I wasn't sure. I recently added 3 anthias and the next day, one was injured so I put her in the fuge and she didn't make it through the night. I have not seen any big sea stars, but I have seen some huge bristle worms. 6 inches out of the rock.
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03/08/2010, 10:26 AM
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Excellent free clean up crew.
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