Starifish?? Or worm

cafero702

Member
OK i bought a rather large colt last week and it is attached to a rock and i changed aorund my whole tank a yesterday and my colt is postitioned on my rockwork now.
I just looked at it with a flashlight while all my lights were out and coming out of the rock on the bottom is it looks almost like Worms sort of. Theres 3 worm like long tentacles coming out of the same spot and when i flash the light on it they go back but all move together at once. It moves like a starfish and it is red almost orange and then white stripes. It looks like a bristle star but like red/orange with white stripes. I dont think there worms they are pretty long and all move at once like a starfish.
Sorry no pick i dont have a good enough camera to take it cuz its so small.
Is there any bristle starfish that look like this?? And are they nocturnal??
 

ophiura

Active Member
Hard to know for sure. Certainly possible, if not very possible, that it is a brittlestar. There are many small hitch hiker species.
 
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