irinki16
04/18/2006, 12:11 PM
hello. i am new to this hobby. i started about a little over a month ago. my tank is finally getting established, after many ongoing cycles. i have a 12G nano tank with 15lbs of live rock and about 1 1/2" deep of live sand. I also have a lemon damsel, 6 dwarf tiger hermit crabs and 6 astrea snails. I was watching my tank (in awe of how cool the hermit crabs eat algea and finding new corraline algae) when i saw this spiny looking thing. at first i thought it was a worm until i slightly moved the rock to find something that looked like a tiny starfish with 3 long arms and 2 really small arms. when i researched it up, it looked like a fancy brittle star. i also found out that brittle's can grow to be 10" long which is not good for my tank and my fish ( i also read that they were omnivores). is he going to grow to be that big in my tank? if so, should i get rid of him? if not, what should i be feeding him? he's smaller than my hermit crabs. i would say the brittle is less than half an inch long. is he a baby? how did he survive the cycle in the first place?