no, i dont have any live corals


"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"wxtbs" wrote in message
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If you dont have any natural predators in your tank the population of
those mutant starfish will keep growing. I had some in my 92 and at
one point I was picking out 60-70 (my daughter enjoyed keeping count)
of them at least once a week. They killed a beautifully colored pipe
organ colony I had so they do harm to corals.
I couldnt keep up with them so I finally got a harlequen (sp) shrimp
that cleaned them out.

We must be talking about two different starfish, because
if their growth in population is so fast and their diet consist
of corals, you would see them feeding on live corals all the time...
Do you ?

I know they reproduce in large numbers in tanks which have
NO corals! At least no corals that have been eaten by them...
I have them in large numbers in my refugium, where there is
NO corals at all. How would they survive on non-coral diet ?

Starfish often eat bacteria growth, so if your coral died, and was
consumed by bacteria, these were feeding grounds for stars.
Do you see these stars on any other live corals in your tank ?