Zoa eating starfish ?

[Hallowhead]

Howdy

Are these zoanthid eating starfish ? I saw one on a zoanthid and when I pulled it off it had some stuck to it

 

[fishguy242]

hi,asterina stars ,yes some do eat corals mostly just multiply fast,manually remove as many as poss, knock population down :)

 

[Hallowhead]

So here are more photos.. when my lights went out I took my flash light out and boy do I have thousands of these little jerks.. I caught tons sitting on top of zoanthids and when I pull them off zoanthid comes with. I will be removing each rock today or tomorrow and scrubbing clean of these critters....