What is this?

[joshua1316]

What is this? Is it safe? What's it worth?

 

[Aiden Parker]

Looks like a Harlequin shrimp. They are very cool. They usually only eat star fish.

Here's a wiki link if you want to read about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenocera

 

[Tahoe61]

Very cool, quite the hitch-hiker. Extremely diet specific, only eats starfish. Hobbyist use them for control of Asterina stars, you can feed them Chocolate Chips stars (this star is not reef safe). Without starfish the shrimp will die of starvation.

 

[Rookie2reef]

Cool hitchhiker usually you have to pay $25 for one of those, get a chocolate chip star fish about once every two weeks starfish won't touch corals cause this guy won't give him the chance

 

[joshua1316]

Big or small starfish?

 

[Rookie2reef]

Mostly all starfish if you have those small nasty starfish he'll clear it up

 

[joshua1316]

Aw ok, have a 56gal tank, no starfish. Was given this little dude for free. I'll go pick up a starfish at a shop today.