death came quickly...muahahah

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rxdoc_85

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hey guys. remember that asterina that i got on a coral i purchased, but didn't know what it was at the time so i left it in the tank? well, i was ticked because not 5 min later i read grins' thread on an asterina, and how they were bad, and i immediately looked for the one i had just seen, and he was gone. well, i walked in from work today and there it was. it was right on the front of the tank on a piece of LR. it might as well had a siren and a flashing light on it. with flawless, rapid precision, i reached in, grabbed the sucker, and flushed it before it even knew what happenned. muahahaha. :devil: but seriously, i'm glad i got it out of the tank before it caused any problems/replicated. thanks to grins for letting me know that it's something that i don't want in the tank.
 
Well that is only 1/2 of what I was trying to say. The information on them is really varied, what I've believed (and experienced myself) is that only some are a danger to coral while others feed on algae. Up til the other night I only found the occasional one on a zoa and I'd remove those. Then I found the one eating the SPS and after that 4 more on the zoas. I have noticed that the ones that have been guilty are bluer in color. I don't know if that is a distinguishing mark of a different types or if they absorbed the pigementation of what they were eating much like an aeloid nudibranch will do.
 
well the one i had was on the corals the first time i saw it. even if it wasn't one of the ones that eats corals, i really don't care. i'm really not wanting to take a chance on having something in the tank that could eat my corals. the thing was pretty ugly anyways, it only had 3 full arms, and a lot of buds between two of the arms. i'm just glad it's out of there. i'm just glad it reared its ugly head so i could see it and get it outta there.
 
Hey I understand completely...and seeing that I just checked for more in the zoa garden and found at least a dozen more sucking on zoas they were removed along with friends nearby. I'm going to spend some more time over the next who knows how long trying to rid myself of them.

By the way, for those that have them in their tanks and have zoas...I just take the turkey baster and tick the zoas off with the tank water so they'll close up and make the little "blood"suckers easier to spot.
 
i think a turkey baster is more useful in the marine aquaria hobby than it is in cooking!! haha. seriously, when does anyone ever use one of those things? and how often do you roast a turkey, once a year? i never thought i'd own one, and i think i'm going to end up buying one.
 
lol, there are a few other useful purposes I've found for kitchen stuff. For instance these bamboo skewers are not only good for making kabobs but great for feeding things like silverside to hard to reach things in the tank, picking murderous asterinas off of rock near zoas...:

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great idea grins!! it's amazing how stuff that wasn't even designed for the aquarium works better than some stuff that was specifically designed for the tank.
 
I just bought a syringe in case I need to dose any aiptasia or whatever else. I felt like explaining the the clerk that I really wasn't an IV drug user. My husband of course thought it would be funny to make remarks like "they should just sell the spoons and lighters with it...like in a kit". Yeah. Great.

Congrats on getting it out of the tank!
 
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