sps eating star [Archive]

hobogato

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 04:14 PM

i have seen this kinda damage, but never caught one in the act. came home from work to find this little bugger cutting a trail in my cap - sorry for the bad pics - was in a hurry to get it out of the tank

hobogato

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 04:15 PM

star munching on cap
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/star1.jpg

removal - you should have seen the slime when i took it off.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/star2.jpg

you can see the trail from the edge to where i caught it - hopefully it wont spread like it does on acros
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/star3.jpg

SueT

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 04:19 PM

in the past I had those #@$%*'s but they mostly got on my newly cut frags. If the frag was healing fine then they couldn't bother it but if the frag was having a hard time recovering they were right on it.

Hope you got to it in time.. it should heal fine for you.

apedroza

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 04:38 PM

Are those the little 6 arm starfish with the uneven arms??? I have had these also but have never seen them damage my coral.

SueT

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 04:57 PM

yeah, some will have only a couple of arms and some will have a few more.

caferacermike

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 06:18 PM

I didn't want to believe it myself as I had been told they make great detrivors. Yet I began getting frsh cut frags and sure enough I found one wiping out my frags. Realy bummed me out.

Enigma13

Fri, 6th Oct 2006, 11:59 PM

I had one take out a nice blue-tipped acro frag about 3 weeks ago or so. I plucked him out and sent him down to the Austin wastewater processing plant. Hope I don't see anymore. Good luck, Ace.

caferacermike

Sat, 7th Oct 2006, 06:36 AM

UGGGHHH!!!!! Jason what where you thinking?????? Oh man I hope it doesn't get chopped up into tiny pieces that reproduce....

JeremyGlen

Sat, 7th Oct 2006, 10:14 AM

IME the brown odd legged stars are bad and the blue ones are fine. I've had the blue ones in my tank forever and they have never bothered anything but the algae.

Enigma, I've got blue-tip frags if you need another. :skeezy

Enigma13

Sat, 7th Oct 2006, 12:25 PM

Mike- Well, what I was thinking is that if he could survive living in the sewer pipes and through the treatment process and still reproduce it is natural selection at its purest, I wouldn't want to interfere with that.

Jeremy, thanks for the offer but I have already replaced the frag.

SueT

Sat, 7th Oct 2006, 04:13 PM

these odd legged stars that I have are not brown or blue but a creamy-grey color. they are very small less than half the size of a pencil eraser.

caferacermike

Sat, 7th Oct 2006, 04:16 PM

But what if you created the one star that did? It would all be your fault.........