sea star id
 

Richard, in my last shipment you included a sea star that I,m trying to id. it looks like a brittle star with for want of a better word, thorns all along the sides of the arms.it wraps around an object like a gorgonian and hangs on, never moving over days, idea's?

Basket star...like this one..... http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...&highlight=tbs

cool critters...

not even close. I,ve had basket stars before. this is the size of the serpents, maybe 5" across. I may have to get a photo

searching online, some kind of spiny brittle star

picture would help....but sounds like a brittle star maybe...but usually they do not hang on gorgs....

sea star
 

Interesting...have you added anything else to your tank besides The Package?

Ophiothrix spiculata ?? problem is this is a california species...

other possibility is a feather star

no Richard. it was in the bag with the other stars

Dan will know.....

yes, it came from him. great shipment btw.

We call them goldline brittle stars and they come from Tarpon Springs area . They hang on gorgs versus hiding under rocks in 30 foot of water or deeper most of the time .

thanks, don't know if I like it hanging on my coral, but it doesn't seam to be hurting it.

I think they have a symbiotic relationship in nature . In tanks the same . After a while it might cruise around at night then come home to its main place to hang . Lots of gorgonians displace their exterior to slough off algae thats starts to grow on them .

I will watch and enjoy, for now