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Brittlestars and nps
Does anyone know if there is a specific species of Brittlestar that eats Chilli corals? I found this star on my chilli and noticed the centre was exactly the same colour. I don't know if this is camo or whether it had ingested some of the coral. The legs are different coloured so my first thoughts were possible predation, although there were no obvious marks.
I'm also suffering from a boom in brittlestars on my nps gorgonians. I don't mind them and they were there when i bought the gorgs, just thought nice symbiosis, but they do hinder some of the polyps feeding and recently read an article where they had to constantly strip them from their gorgs. Has anyone else come across this problem? if so how did you over come/fight it? I can't take them out and wasn't looking at adding a wrasse or similar to eat them, so will likely just have to let them be.
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