Ummmm :notsure: How is that disgusting? You put snails and crabs and fish that crap and pee all over themselves and everything else in your tank.... and you reach in the tank to move stuff around. You may or may not have other starfish that are exactly the same thing as the mini ones except that they are a different species and grow larger.... I dont understand your logic here. These little guys are very benificial for your tank, they are just an addition to your clean up crew and they will reproduce rapidly....
Anyway... congrats to you. I paid shipping for some but most of them died in transit.
I ended up wiht a few. They reproduce by either splitting for one species or simultaneous hermaphordites for the other (Ophiura
). According to what ive read they reproduce readily and very quickly in your aquarium... keep watchinng you may see more soon.