celacanthr
Active Member
I saw 2 brittle stars, that I would like to know about.
1)Central disk is 1/2 an inch (or less) (kinda hard to tell from pic). the legs are really long, I would say 1 1/2- 2 1/2". It is a Blueberry lollipop blue. I know that is kind of a wierd way to describe it, but that is the closest color, that I think comes too it. The owners of them, says that they have had them for several months, with no sign of color change or growth. They also have 5 legs. Oh, and they were collected in Florida, I think probably the Florida Keys, but I am not positive on the keys part.
2)The brittle star is about 1/8th of an inch. But its arms are at least 1 1/2 inches, probably closer to 2. They are black, but you can see a small bit of stripeing, but it may just be the pic. Anyways, they say that these guys will burrow into the sand, and extend there arms out of the sand, but at night they come out of the sand, to "forage the surface of the sand bed as well as finding morsels just below the surface."
I am sorry, that i couldn't be of more assistance, but I don't wanna take their pics, and the pics are located on a commercial site.
1)Central disk is 1/2 an inch (or less) (kinda hard to tell from pic). the legs are really long, I would say 1 1/2- 2 1/2". It is a Blueberry lollipop blue. I know that is kind of a wierd way to describe it, but that is the closest color, that I think comes too it. The owners of them, says that they have had them for several months, with no sign of color change or growth. They also have 5 legs. Oh, and they were collected in Florida, I think probably the Florida Keys, but I am not positive on the keys part.
2)The brittle star is about 1/8th of an inch. But its arms are at least 1 1/2 inches, probably closer to 2. They are black, but you can see a small bit of stripeing, but it may just be the pic. Anyways, they say that these guys will burrow into the sand, and extend there arms out of the sand, but at night they come out of the sand, to "forage the surface of the sand bed as well as finding morsels just below the surface."
I am sorry, that i couldn't be of more assistance, but I don't wanna take their pics, and the pics are located on a commercial site.
