Type of starfish
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fishy head
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it looks spooky spooky :scared:
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larryndana
Active Member
Don't know what kind, but wow....he looks cool. ***)
durgeonman
Member
looks kidda like a red knobby star or a chocolate chip star but with different colors. might be from the same family.
fishgeek01
Active Member
I also beleive this is a dyed starfish. I beleive this is your usual chocolate chip with orange and black dye injected into it. I have not seen a starfish that looks like this before (does not mean that it doesn't exist naturally like that) but i have my doubts.
durgeonman
Member
i dont think its dyed. look how the color blends on the spikes in the center of the star. its seams fairly natural to me. but who knows they could be really good at injecting fish. :thinking: however i have never heard of a dyed SW fish before. if it is dyed thye have sunk to a new low
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lsu
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do stores really dye fish? and why would they, never heard of that
codysmom
New Member
The starfish has spikes between his legs and chocolate stars do not.(At least none I have seen) His belly is orange and black marble. And his little suckers are light orange. The same lfs (different location) have little green with orange spikes and they call them Bali stars but i couldn't find any on the internet by that name.
durgeonman
Member
the fish store i work at has some stars that look almost identical to these. the only real diffence is these are red and white. they might be in the same family as the one you have.
durgeonman
Member
Originally Posted by alyssia
Do you mean a red general star?
yea that would be the one. looking at them again they are close but not exactlly. still there is a rezemblence...
Do you mean a red general star?
yea that would be the one. looking at them again they are close but not exactlly. still there is a rezemblence...
ophiura
Active Member
The star is a Protoreaster, effectively like a general or chocolate chip star. These stars have a wide variety of color patterns. No need to assume it is dyed. I have never heard this about seastars and frankly I think it would be fatal and or result in exceedingly high cost. But it is possible I suppose.
Anyway, it is definitely, for sure, NOT REEF SAFE. It should be spot fed a wide variety of food, meaty mostly but it would benefit from algae wafers or nori as well.
Anyway, it is definitely, for sure, NOT REEF SAFE. It should be spot fed a wide variety of food, meaty mostly but it would benefit from algae wafers or nori as well.