Asternia stars. now with solutions, and stray voltage
 

Found this guy munching algae lastnight, wanted to make sure he's the good kind
How can you tell?
Dark on its back
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/DSCN2505.jpg
Lightish colored mouth
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/DSCN2504.jpg

I have a whole pile of these guys, don't seem to harm anything, they like to roam around the glass and munch algae.

yeah he was munching algae, I just want to find out if hes the good one for sure or the kind that mow down corals

I've never seen any on my corals and have hundreds of them, and have had them for over a year.

Yeah this is the first time I ever saw this little guy. I was going around with a flashlight in the tank last night and boom! micro turbos and asternias! Naturally I was up for like 2 hours looking for info on them all lol. I sure hope this isnt the coral munching kind

IMO they're all bad. Here's a little read for ya.

http://www.garf.org/STAR/starfish.html

Yeah I have read this one haha. not sure what to do with this one I have him in a cup, will most likely garbage it, but when I do my tank upgrade (37 gallons) is there anything that will keep these little guys under control? I have heard harlequin shrimp will but have to be trained or coaxed to eat them

Sorry but that statement makes me laugh. :lol:I see it quite often in regards to people training their fish to eat a certain thing. ie; mandarines and CBB. Seriously people? If something is hungry enough and a certain food is there for the taking than if everything is all good they should eat it. But i'm no fish whisperer or trainer.:biggrin: But I had alot of asterina stars before and IME with my last harlequin they mysteriously went down in quantity when I added him.

Haha yeah I suppose so. Is there anything aside from shrimp to take care of them? I have bad luck with shrimp, I have a minute amout of stray voltage in my tank that I can't pinpoint the source no matter what I do. I actually think it my apartments electrical. So any shrimp usually dies in a few weeks. which is a bummer cause they have character!

How have you been testing for voltage ?
Shouldn't be that hard to nail down