hitchiker ID

[Van down by the river]

Way to go Quinn,
Yes it is Linckia multiflora. I've had one drop all 5 legs, within a few weeks new little blue legs appeared from the leg end. Many starfish reproduce through asexual fragmentation. They will split from the oral disk and each new leg will regrow the rest of the entire body.

The sad part is it took TRT 11 posts to get it right. Although they weren't the worst guesses I've seen on a BB.
It was also a Canreefer that figured it out for them!

I'm glad that Mitch was at least going in the right direction on the first reply. I did get a good laugh from his "yolk sack" guess. It is in the same family as the Blue Linckia Linckia laevigata, but a different more colorful species. It is often imported on coral, unfortunately it isn't often on order lists. So usually the only way to get them is as a hitchhiker. The upside is they seem to fragment frequently, so everyone should start being real nice to bright eyes_13 [/i]