Asterina Starfish / Harlequin (Hi res)

For those of you that do not know what asterina starfish are, they basically are tiny stars that quickly replicate. They are oportunistic feeders so will move from green to coraline algae to whatever it has to for survival. I had tons of these in my tank until I employed my new little buddy "Harley". He is munching away in fact I actually captured a pic of him eating one. (kinda blurry but I tried)

Here is a good shot of his colors.



Here he is in his environment.



Here he is eating an asterina. You can make it out in his claws.

He is pretty active during the day. When you get close to the tank or a fish comes close, he waves his arms and does a neat little dance. He has a lot of appendages as you can tell so its a pretty neat thing to watch. I wouldnt recommend them if you don't have its natural diet of starfish feet tubing or possibly sea urchin tubing. I havent had him but more than a week so I am hoping he gets enough to eat although they don't need to eat nearly as much as fish. For now thats about all I know!

Mike