Asterina Stars eating Palys

[Engloid]

Yip, Travis told me the other day that they do. I had never seen it, so I have been watching. About 8 times now, I have plucked stars off of polyps. They will be right on top of the paly, all arms wrapped down around it...and when I remove them, the paly head is gone.

So...other than plucking every one out, how do I get rid of them without killing hermits, snails and other stuff?

 

[Finnaddict]

Get a Harlequin shrimp. They love those things!

 

[Gladfelter]

If you hurt one it sends some type of signal through your tank to flee. I'm really not kidding about this. They will literally all run to the tank walls. Then get to picking.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Get a Harlequin shrimp. They love those things!

That's the approach I've taken

 

[Engloid]

I have a coris wrasse that might make dinner of the shrimp. He doesn't bother my hermits, but I'm not sure if he would mess with a shrimp.

The last couple days, I have been scraping them off the glass...have probably captured and gotten rid of about 200 of them so far. It would take a lot of shrimp to eat the number of them I have.

 

[Gladfelter]

I have a blue jaw. That's why harlequin and bumblebee shrimp were out for mw

 

[hybridazn]

Get a blue linckia starfish. They will make short work of them for you.

 

[Engloid]

Get a blue linckia starfish. They will make short work of them for you.

I have been wanting to get a linkia. Is it only the blues that eat them?

 

[_Alex_]

I have never heard of blue linckia eating them?? And site to back this up?

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

I have never heard of blue linckia eating them?? And site to back this up?

+1 to this. I had a blue linckia that lasted 2 wks for me in a tank with a bunch of asterina.

 

[_Alex_]

I had blue for 2 years then slowly just withered away. But now that I think about it and ask my wife, we did notice less asterina stars while alive. And have a ton now. Hmm would like to see something on this lol been over a year since lost our blue lol

 

[CastAway]

Is this a bad one?

 

[fishroomlady]

that's an asterina

 

[SaltyH20]

I have a blue and oarnge linkia they wiped the population out, there's a load in the sump but I'm fine with that