bad star

bowkry · #1 07-17-2009, 01:01 AM

what is this and why is it eating my coral???

Snaz · #2 07-17-2009, 01:08 AM

Asterina sp. Many varieties and many opinions. Since it is obvious these ones are eating your corals it is time to remove them as you see them. Flush.

xtreme · #3 07-17-2009, 01:09 AM

Harlequin shrimp should eat them.

bowkry · #4 07-17-2009, 01:12 AM

ya and my lunar will eat them

bowkry · #5 07-18-2009, 02:51 PM

now since I found those ones I have been checking every one of my corals is any bad sections and those star fish are every where!!! Does any one have any ideas how to kill them. I have been pulling corals out and removing them but there is thousands, and I cant tell the dif the good ones from the bad so they all go.

Navarchus · #6 07-18-2009, 03:52 PM

As far as I know they doesn’t eat corals….

chandigz · #7 07-18-2009, 04:55 PM

I put a harlequin shrimp in a tank full of asternia stars and he cleaned then up fairly quickly.

bowkry · #8 07-26-2009, 02:28 PM

so I have been killing these stars for 2 weeks now and I cant get a anywhere with them

I have a fish trap and a net in the tank trieng to get my lunar out so I can put a shrimp in there but he is smart. I am ready to rip all my rock out to get him but good god

A trigger should distroy them wouldn't they!!!