Asternia Starfish Question

[marko22]

My system has been up and running for closet o 2 years now. Over the past 30 days I have had a huge increase in Asternia starfish in one of my 150 gallon tanks. Do I need to be concerned? At night I currently have about 30 or so on my front glass which quickly leave when the lights come on? This occurred all of a sudden and I am wondering if I need to manually remove them, or if they will come and go and just let it be? Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[puffer9375]

In my experience it only got worse although I can not say they did any damage. They did distract from my display just so many of them. I would manually remove them as best you can.

 

[qasimja]

if you do deside to remove some of them i will take some i dont have any lol

 

[lilrobb]

Qasimja;664668 wrote: if you do deside to remove some of them i will take some i dont have any lol

So you decided to remove all your zoas? LOL
Read up on them before you introduce any...

 

[qasimja]

i dont have any zoas my tank is lps and softies

 

[lilrobb]

Zoas ARE softies

 

[qasimja]

by zoas i thought you meant zoanthids

 

[lilrobb]

Qasimja;664680 wrote: by zoas i thought you meant zoanthids

Zoas = Zoanthids = asterina food

 

[qasimja]

oh i dont have any zoanthids is what i meant

Edit: just tons of lps and kenya trees and xenia maybe i'm using the incorrect terms is xenia and kenya trees considered zoas too

 

[crew]

asterina's aren't a problem until they get a taste for "insert soft coral here" and then they become lawn mowers... I didn't mind them either until my zoa's started disappearing.

I rubber banded a toothpick on to the end of a rubber hose so when I do water changes I can suck out as many as I can see, works great.

 

[qasimja]

oh so they eat any soft coral i thought it was just zoas maybe not then lol

 

[rockdog]

I had an excess and some had developed a taste for zoas. I now have a harlequin shrimp in stead. Also have 2 chocolate chip stars, and an ugly linkia in a rock vat for food...

Jason

 

[elfloyd]

Yep... they will decimate zoas!!!!!!