new blasto!! with weird tentacle?

[coastalcoraline5181]

so i got new blasto frag yesterday and it’s already puffed up really nice. however when it shrinks just enough, theres these super long (kinda spiky?) tentacles that come out. now i read that blastos don’t have sweeper tentacles but can this be one? i tried to get as decent of a pic as i could being that the blue lights kinda messes with my phones camera. any ideas?

 

[KrisReef]

Perhaps a starfish arm?

 

[coastalcoraline5181]

Perhaps a starfish arm?

i was thinking the same thing! maybe a brittle sea star? seems to behave like them

 

[Goaway]

There are micro sea stars, which are harmless and cute.

 

[coastalcoraline5181]

There are micro sea stars, which are harmless and cute.

thats so exciting!! hopefully it ends up coming out and moving around, its just been chilling in the frag since i got it yesterday evening

 

[Goaway]

Toss the lil guy a mysis or whatever food you feed the fish couple times a week. They are very fun to keep.

I do have a halichoerus chrysus (yellow wrasse thing). All of my micro brittle stars were eaten :(

 

[coastalcoraline5181]

Toss the lil guy a mysis or whatever food you feed the fish couple times a week. They are very fun to keep.

I do have a halichoerus chrysus (yellow wrasse thing). All of my micro brittle stars were eaten :(

definitely gonna try that today! i have some mysis that i already feed my fire fish with. and good to know about the wrasse (so sorry to hear about losing the stars though!), i was considering getting one but now i know not to, i wanna keep this little guy alive. thank u for ur help!

 

[coastalcoraline5181]

so i got new blasto frag yesterday and it’s already puffed up really nice. however when it shrinks just enough, theres these super long (kinda spiky?) tentacles that come out. now i read that blastos don’t have sweeper tentacles but can this be one? i tried to get as decent of a pic as i could being that the blue lights kinda messes with my phones camera. any ideas?

EDIT: its not 1, but in fact THREE baby brittle stars! did a coral dip today and they popped right out. didnt expect them to live through the dip but they did so i threw them back in the tank and theyre doing great :) thanks to everyone for the advice!