Thousands of small brittle serpent star. What eats them

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Most of my larger leopards and tamarins eat them and also I had a large foxface that ate them, but none of them touch my asterina stars...
 

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I have thousands of small black brittle serpart stars and they drive my wife nuts. What eats them??
Bongo Shrimp. Wrasses won't take care of the problem if there are that many. I lost a lot of coral from these little ****ers
 

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Many of the halichoeres wrasse will eat them (bristleworms also). My favorite is the dusky, but that does get quite large. My leopards have never been very good at eating pests. Harlequin shrimp will eat asterina stars but not brittle/serpent stars.
 

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