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Originally Posted by Reef Pilot
One other thing I noticed in this tank is a lot of the small mini brittle stars. Do they eat asterina stars?
I am wondering too if these mini brittle stars are the reason I can't keep zoas, as I saw them crawling over them too.
The mini brittle stars also hang around my dendros and sun corals, and try to steal the mysis I feed them. My tank is definitely full of them.
Are there any fish or other predators that eat the mini brittle stars?
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the brittle stars wont hurt your zoos , if i am to pick up any given colonie or frag of zoos from my tank theres on average a dozen or more stars intangled in the polyps . i could estimate i bet a few thousand in my tank , asterinas on the other hand you def dont want, good or bad brown or not........
its not uncommon for butterflys diets to change , my guess would be thats the trouble for your keeping zoos , im not sure about them eating stars i mean anythings possible but ive never first hand seen that happen.
i know for a fact theres not a whole lot that eat brittle stars , i have about 8 wrasses, a butterfly and 3 mandarins....neither has ever touched the stars.
my harlequins keep the asterinas from ever appearing .