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liquidcowboy
02/23/2010, 01:58 PM
I noticed recently that I had a tiny what looks like a baby serpent star on one of my new rocks I just put in the tank. Today I noticed several more like about 10 or so all over the rocks. I have never had serpent starfish in a tank before so i am curious if this will end up being a problem down the road when they all start growing bigger? Or will they be ok?

orion1
02/23/2010, 02:10 PM
most likely you have astria stars. There is a lot of debate on them I personally feel they are beneficial to your system I have a bunch of them

brdracing
02/23/2010, 02:10 PM
Those are mini brittle Stars and will not get much bigger then 1 ro 2 inches long. I have bunches in my tanks and they do a good job of getting up left over food!

d3rryc
02/24/2010, 11:53 AM
If the arms and long and skinny, they're mini brittle stars. If the arms are fat and stocky, they're asterina.

+1 to both orion1 and brdracing for their descriptions of each.