How bad is it?

flower

flower

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I see a little brittle starfish...it is not the tiny type you find in refugiums, it's little but I can already see ridges on the arms and my eyes are bad. It stuck it's arm on the seahorses tail and the seahorse pulled away but it held on for a moment and the horses acted like it was stuck..
They are not on the chart so how bad is it to have one in the tank?
I have snail eggs everywhere...I hope that's a good thing, but there are no fish to eat the eggs...does that mean I will have so many snails I can't count them all?
I have all kinds of little aiptasia, I am sooo glad I have some peppermint shrimp on it's way. I have been killing them with Joes juice but some are in spots I can't reach...but they are very small yet.
 
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smartorl

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The aiptasia is the biggest threat. I personally know someone who lost all her horses because of them.
I would remove the brittle as your horses are smaller but I wouldn't sit by the tank until I got it out. I really don't think it will cause any real problems but probably a better safe than sorry scenario.
I would sit by the tank until the aiptasia are eradicated. I have to be the voice of gloom and doom but there is no sure way of knowing that the peps will even eat them and one sting is all it can take.
 
flower

flower

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Okay, I have been zapping them as I find them. There are two tiny ones way down on the underside of a rock. I can get them by lifting the rock but that may disturb them and make them spawn, I can tip the rock and when they come out again zap them.. I can't believe how many I have been finding, 8 so far over the last three days.
How will I get that little brittle out? I tried to grab it but it was sticky to the rock and I think I pulled part of an arm off...I want to put it in the 90g. When it gets larger...what is the danger, what will it do to the horses?
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Flower...put a piece of tubing on the end of the Joe's Juice syringe....and then guide it to the ones you can not reach
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/384655/how-bad-is-it#post_3370450
Flower...put a piece of tubing on the end of the Joe's Juice syringe....and then guide it to the ones you can not reach

No that won't work, it is on the underside of the rock..I would need a U shape to reach it. I don't have stacked rock because of the rock back, so my rocks are easy to reach, they serve for corals to rest on. I will just gently tip the rock and wait for it them to poke their little stingers back out and feed them some juice and watch them melt. I hate to mess with them for fear of spawning but on the bright side 5 peppermints should be very happy in this tank. I always watch this tank, so if the peps don't do their job I will know it. COME ON TUESDAY!
 
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