Fishn00b Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Ok not sure how to handle these little pest. I have thousands of them in the bottom of my tank. I know they are harmless, I find them annoying and they are messing with my Mandarin Dragonlet. What I Am thinking about doing is pumping a 29gal tank full of my salt water, moving all fish, snails, and Anemone's over, and start washing all crashed coral with fresh water to kill as many as I can. Any thoughts on this? Or any better ideas on how to handle them? Thank you all so every much for any info. Link to comment
seabass Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Well don't kill them. If you have a local reef club, bring a bag of them to it; you'll be a hero. A LFS would probably take them off your hands for free. Their population IS due to available food (probably detritus in your crushed coral substrate). Replacing the bed with a 1" sand substrate will probably limit their food source, and thus their population. If you decide to replace your sand bed, take everything out of your tank first (including any water that you want to save). Once you disturb the sand bed, you will foul the water (and it will have to be discarded). Although the crushed coral might also be supporting pods for your Mandarin. Link to comment
Islandoftiki Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Ship me a whole bunch of them. They're hard to come by when you want them. Link to comment
najluni15 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I will take as many as you want to send. I will pay for shipping and then some if you want..,, Link to comment
Fishn00b Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 These are the little white bristle star's down in the crushed, I'd be happy to overnight some to a few people if you just private message me your address, Tomorrow Ill try to get a little film to show what I am talking about. Link to comment
thegambler26 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Almost sounds like your talking about asterina star fish. Mini Brittle stars are usually black and white or red and white. All you can usually see of them is there legs sticking out of the rocks. If you can see the whole thing, its white, and is an oddly shaped star... it's an asterina. Link to comment
Fishn00b Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201195284074194&l=292787632495374385, this is a really bad video of the star fish i'm talking about, you can see the little white arms on the Mandarin, then i moved over on a rock that has an asterina star with bristle arms sticking out, the last couple seconds are on a rock that has them all over it. If anyone want some of them let me know I live in small town USA so there is literally no one in this town that I know of that has a salt tank. And thanks for the suggestion seabass if anyone wants some Ill scrap some of the crushed coral out with them in it. that would also give me some room to add straight sand sub straint. Link to comment
BojanMilenkovic Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 If you don't want a massive population of asterinas buy harlequin shrimp,they are cute and eat only starfish. Link to comment
paintblljnkie Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 I would take some of them as well, if you are going to get rid of them Link to comment
lakshwadeep Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 The video doesn't work, likely because it is not public. Link to comment
fretfreak13 Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I can't believe you WANT to kill these!!! You're nuts... Link to comment
Charlesbrooks Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 I know that this thread is old, but l would like to buy some if anyone still have some available. Link to comment
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