Found a white brittle star in tank - suggestions?

[nick morgan]

I receintly added a cluster of young feather dusters to my 10 gal tank. A few days later I found a small - 1" - white brittle star in the tank. I guess it hitched a ride with the cluster although I didn't notice it when I put it in the tank. So far it seems peacefull enough but I don't know what it eats. I do know that a large one will eat my sea horses. I also have a 30gal hex and a 45gal hex and a 2gal hex that I keep my live brine in. The 10 gal also has a couple of worms - cool looking - and a lot of very small feather dusters - about 30 or more. I've already got the 30gal set to put the horses in but I'm not sure what to do with the star. I have plenty of "Live Rock" in all my tanks if thats what it eats. Any Suggestions?

 

[Anonymous]

The green ones are the ones to worry about.. I'll need to try and find genus and species on that for you, but it's very <giggle> specific. Otherwise, leave it be.

 

[Anonymous]

Aha! Found it, the animal one MUST be wary of is Ophiarachna incrassata (notice that "achna" bit, like the "arachna" bit of spiders and scorpions, eh?), the Green Brittle Starfish.

 

[Anonymous]

The little white brittles are fine. I have hundreds among my rocks. Probably won't grow any more than an inch...BTW if it was a fish eater, I doubt it could even eat a neon goby at that size. Leave it be and enjoy

 

[Anonymous]

Don't worry it will be just fine and will not harm anything. My Hawkfish tore my Brittle Star to pieces.

 

[nick morgan]

Cool,thanks!! I want to put a few of the LRocks into my other tanks to help get the eco going again. I'm waiting to see what comes out of a couple of the rocks - 2 of the rocks have a small pile of waste outside of them. The waste used to be a cream color, now it's more of a light brown.
Anyway, thanks for the tip on the star!!