Looks like a protoreaster. Was received and sold under chocolate chip starfish.
1st attempt at feeding it to harlequin shrimp was seemingly typical. She went after it, stood on it's head flipped it over and dragged it somewhere. Then proceeded to inspect the tubefeet and let it go!!!
I took it out and put it in one of our plankton tanks. Waited a few days tried it again .
2 nd attempt ignored it
Then tried a 3rd time a few days later figuring she'd be super hungry fasting for almost 25 days ( with a few asterinas here and there) .
I put the starfish next to her as she usually grabs it out of my hands.
She actually ran away from it.
I had gone and gotten a "regular" P. Nodosus as back up. As soon as I dropped it in she came to take it.
It has red/brown tubefeet instead of the beige colour of nodosus and linckii. Otherwise basically looks like a faded version of choco chip.
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