wow wood, ur tanks really comin to life now, love the crab, just think pretty soon you'll havesome fish in there!!
The 75gal reef tank cycle has started!!!!!!!
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I just buryed it in the sand and the Sally has left it alone. Is there anything thing else that is hard about keeping them other then tank mates picking at them?
It's from Africa.
Dose anyone know what kind of start this is. It just turned up on our over flow box and was wondering if it is reef safe? I know allot of these type stars are and I was wondering if I should take it out?
LOL.. well, they can get out of control, but next to bristle worms, I think those stars are the second most common hitch hiker. They are good, although little, cleaners. They are reef safe. Just keep the population in check by scraping them off the glass and picking them out of the tank if/when they start to get out of control. My neighbor has about 100-200 of those all over his 75G tank. I think that is too many.. but 50 or so is ok. They multiply pretty fast and it seems rare to find one with all its legs grown out.
OK cool I'll remember that. Thanks Ace. I'm still amazed at how much stuff just keeps popping out on these rocks and stuff.
Looks like a yellow coco worm. Nice one, don't see those often around here. Feather dusters are incredibly easy to care for and make wonderful beginner inverts. I'm not surprised your sally light food is going after it though, they don't have a good reputation for being reef safe or even reef safe-ish in my opinion. Now that you've seen it on the feather I'd probably get rid of one or the other.
It is an asterina starfish. I disagree with saying they are reef safe in general. Some are, some aren't. If you see them on your glass or rocks they are probably one of the reef safe ones. However if you see them on your zoas, sps, etc. they probably aren't. I've found some of the bad ones in my own tank and remove them when I see them. I leave the ones on the glass or in the overflow alone. Oh, and don't be suprised if you see white areas where they eat the coraline.
Looks like a yellow coco worm. Nice one, don't see those often around here. Feather dusters are incredibly easy to care for and make wonderful beginner inverts. I'm not surprised your sally light food is going after it though, they don't have a good reputation for being reef safe or even reef safe-ish in my opinion. Now that you've seen it on the feather I'd probably get rid of one or the other.
It is an asterina starfish. I disagree with saying they are reef safe in general. Some are, some aren't. If you see them on your glass or rocks they are probably one of the reef safe ones. However if you see them on your zoas, sps, etc. they probably aren't. I've found some of the bad ones in my own tank and remove them when I see them. I leave the ones on the glass or in the overflow alone. Oh, and don't be suprised if you see white areas where they eat the coraline.
Do you think it would be better not to have them? the one you saw is on the black overfolw box. I don't want anything to eat the Coraline or is that not a big deal?
I stock the worm in the sand and covered it and the Sally has left it alone. So I guess we will see waht happens I like both and want to keep both.
With all of the things just monitor them closely and decide if and when you have to what you want to keep. I agree with what has been said overall but when and if you start getting those zoas that cost 25 bucks a head even one is an semi-expensive loss..
