Linkia / Fromia starfish safe with clams?

[m0nkie]

Are the orange/blue Linkias, red fromias, or red brittle starfish compatible with clams?

 

[OrionN]

Yes. They don’t bother anything. The eat bacterial and detritus on the sand, glass and rock

 

[Kasrift]

Yes. They don’t bother anything. The eat bacterial and detritus on the sand, glass and rock

Do a little research on them, I have a fromia milleporella, but they are all hard I believe long term. Mine just hit 6 months in my system, but that is far from long term success. I have a crocea and it hasn't touched it, however I have had multiple button scolies die. @livinlifeinBKK has an article published on their eating habits (I still have to buy the magazine issue online) and a thread on it and has a belief that his fromia indica is eating scolies as well.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Do a little research on them, I have a fromia milleporella, but they are all hard I believe long term. Mine just hit 6 months in my system, but that is far from long term success. I have a crocea and it hasn't touched it, however I have had multiple button scolies die. @livinlifeinBKK has an article published on their eating habits (I still have to buy the magazine issue online) and a thread on it and has a belief that his fromia indica is eating scolies as well.

I have more than just a belief my Fromias have been chewing on my Scolys! I've witnessed it! I didn't believe they'd actually consume or harm the actual tissue of the coral so i allowed one to stay on top of one Scoly thinking he was simply consuming biofilm surrounding the frag it was on as there was a little cyano among algae visible. After he moved on there was visible tissue damage and i promptly moved the Scolys to another system. I've had no other issues with them bothering other corals or anything else for that matter but something about Scolys definitely attracts them. Perhaps their microbiome is similar enough to the biofilm which they naturally consume for them to be attracted. If this is the case, i actually look at it as a partially positive observation as identification of the microbial life on a particular genus of coral would be easier to identify than that of the live rock they feed on in nature. My reasoning behind this belief is that corals regulate their microbiome and although there are shifts, they still maintain control to a degree as long as they are healthy.