Snail/Starfish outbreak??

i am batman

New Member
I've been cycling my 12g nano for the last 3 weeks or so. I began with about 5lbs of l/r along with 10lbs of sand. On Saturday I added another 15lbs of rock that I purchased off of a local reef site. Everything was going well until tonight when I noticed a small snail cruising across the glass of my tank. I quickly flipped on the actinics and caught approximately 20 dime sized starfish duck into cover as well as about 15 small snails all over the l/r. My cleaning crew has been at work since I put the new rock in. I have 3 turbos/3astrias/3 nassarius/5 hermit crabs scouring the tank. I cannot find any resources online or in my reef book that talk about these snails or starfish. Can anybody help?
 

keoni

New Member
They're probably brittle stars, I got some on my live rock once, they're spreading like crazy....but my tanks clean
 
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