What is this crawling on my acro

[gacolt]

What is this crawling on my acro[spider]

What is this on my acro.i was looking at my tank with a flashlight and noticed what looks like a spider on my acro and i started looking and there's 3 or4 of them that i see.what are they?

 

[gacolt]

ok so i just look it up and i ave acro eating spiders ftw

 

[Cleverbs]

good luck =/

 

[eliramos]

Oh man! I've never even heard of those! It's bad enough we have to deal with spiders on land!

 

[gacolt]

i know ..the one thing i hate most is now in my tank.i dont even know how to get rid of these things.

 

[BristlePad]

wow never heard of these.......At last you can see them pretty good, I would just manually remove them

 

[GreatWhiteTang]

ok so i just look it up and i ave acro eating spiders ftw

With an odd number of legs I would research a bit more, as ive never heard of "apropos eating spiders" and looks like a small serpent star species.. Not saying your wrong.. But I wouldn't accept that quick of a conclusion.. Where did you find info in this.. I would check wet Web media or ask one of the guys on there with that pic what they think!

 

[gacolt]

they hide in the rocks during the day.is there any fish that hunt at night

 

[GreatWhiteTang]

Now but different crustaceans eat smaller crustaceans.. I would try and arrow crab if anything but like I said that's under the assumption it's a type of crustacean.. Can you post the link you used to diagnose these?

 

[diablomaster9045]

If its anything like a starfish, I would do a Levamisole treatment(Flatworm killer). That stuff instantly nukes starfish.

 

[gacolt]

from what i have read you can use interceptor to get rid of them.but that will kill a bunch of good stuff aswell.
i will hard to add inverts to the tank with 6 wrasses.

 

[gacolt]

there not sea stars.they move just like a spider and look just like a spider.

 

[Vpham]

Here's a link I found. I am not sure that what u have....

Pycnogonid / spider | Melev's Reef

 

[SteelerMike]

Are the acros they are on looking stressed?

 

[Vpham]

At the bottom of the description, there's a link on other forum people discuss about interceptor treatment which does make sense to me to give it a shot....
Gacolt, ur wrass will be just fine with out pods present in ur system, as long as they eat frozen foods or others.

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

Will the interceptor kill all inverts as well as well? What about long term affects? As in putting a decorative sea star later down the line?

 

[gacolt]

Are the acros they are on looking stressed?

they look stressed,poor pe or no pe color fading

 

[GreatWhiteTang]

I would assume after the treatment, a good size water change.. And running carbon to take the remainder out this will have no long term effects.. But.. Assumptions in this hobby can be dangerous lol

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

Haha yes it can.. well best of luck.

 

[KrustyArt]

WOW, I had only ever heard of Zoa eating sea spiders before. Awesome photo!!!!