Asterinas eating my zoas

[VirginiaReefer]

Asterina starfish ate all my zoas. I got a harlequin shrimp to eat the starfish but something killed that( beat it up). 29 Gallon tank with 1 clown, 1 royal Gramma, 1 Springeri damsel, 1 cleaner skunk shrimp. Next steps before I add gasoline and fire?

 

[KrisReef]

Get rid of the fishes and put another Harlequin shrimp in the tank and let it do its magic.

Otherwise, take the tank apart and manually remove the starfish.

 

[Lavey29]

How do you know they ate your zoas? Do you see thousands of them in your zoa patch?

 

[Stomatopods17]

None of those should hurt a harlequin shrimp unless it was really small or that royal gramma is mistakenly miss ID'd for a bicolor dottyback.

I'd try again, lower water flow if its too high for the shrimp, or double check if thats a royal gramma before introducing more inverts.