ID Please - Starfish?

[Orion]

 

 

Woke up this morning to find this on my mag float. It looks like a starfish, but with one long tentacle?

Must have hitched a ride on the live rock, or the GSP (It was dipped before I put it in). Is it safe to keep with coral, or should I get it out of the tank?

[SunWyrm]

Micro brittlestar - They're great scavengers. Keep 'im! Also dip tends to kill these guys so make sure to rescue them before coral/fw dipping. If you get more, they should breed easily.

[Der ABT]

have ALOT of them in my tank, as said they are great scavangers, often get peopel asking for me to include a few with frags...

fun to watch, generally sit hidden until food hits the water then you can start seeing them come out

[Orion]

Thanks for the quick replies!

Tank must be doing well if I am finding these guys

[SunWyrm]

Indeed! I've also found that they are a good indicator of something going wrong. If I see all of them freaking out I know there's a problem and I should test. This should not be mistaken for the little parties they have when you feed the tank lol.

[Der ABT]

haha funny you say that, when i had the battery incident (cheap double a battery leak all its acid in the tank) they and the slime where the first things i saw....i went wow look at the thousand tiny stars...they look like they are waving at me...FOR HELP oh geez.