ID please?

[dave]

Ok..so a week ago my 16 year old says he saw a baby star fish. I thought he was crazy because we don't own a mommy starfish. And he hasn't added any rock or livestock for 4 months.

So what is this? It about the size of a pencil eraser.
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[derek_s]

Asterina starfish. Generally considered harmless. Typical hitchhiker.

 

[grouper]

Dave;213780 wrote: Ok..so a week ago my 16 year old says he saw a baby star fish. I thought he was crazy because we don't own a mommy starfish. And he hasn't added any rock or livestock for 4 months.

So what is this? It about the size of a pencil eraser.

It's a star fish.....

 

[dave]

corvettecris;213782 wrote: Asterina starfish. Generally considered harmless. Typical hitchhiker.

Thanks! I'm looking on wetwebmedia.com about them but can't find how BIG they get. Any idea?

 

[jaydm93teg]

they dont get very big...all of the ones i have ever seen in my tank stay about the size of the one in your picture

 

[skriz]

Asterinas. THey stay very small. Jin (futureInterest) is the resident expert on these and can identify the harmful from the harmless ones. Some will kill your zoas.

 

[FutureInterest]

Well... Even the "bad" ones don't exclusively eat zoas from my observation. I'm trying to put together some photo evidence though for the unbelievers out there . Anyways if you get me a pic of the topside of the asterina I can ID it for yah.