InAtTheDeepEnd Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 As title! I'm in the UK... Plenty of places selling asterina but as a diehard zoa fan those are definitely NOT what I want 😂 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 On 4/13/2023 at 3:41 PM, InAtTheDeepEnd said: As title! I'm in the UK... Plenty of places selling asterina but as a diehard zoa fan those are definitely NOT what I want 😂 From a quick Googling, Aquilonastra (which is a type of Asterina) sounds like a dedicated sponge predator.  Seems unlikely to survive in a tank.  The Asterinas we commonly see are algae scavengers...or bacteria and diatom predators if you prefer.  😉 On a coral, they could only manage to eat mucus or disintegrating tissue.  Wait....did you say there are places selling what is possibly the most common hitchhiker in the hobby???  😅  Sign of the times...  🤪   You may have already seen this site, but I just bumped into this for the first time: https://www.reeflex.net/tiere/13914_Aquilonastra_cepheus.htm  For comparison, the more common Asterinas appear to be listed there as well.  Seems like a petty nice set of info! Quote Link to comment
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