Serpent star invasion

[Branespikin]

I have been manually removing tons of these little serpent stars. I see there legs under ever single frag plug. Under the frag there is a few of them. I see they are starting to annoy my zoas. What can i do to get rid of them? Anything that will eat them?
Thx
Brani

 

[cmcoker]

Are they microbrittle stars? If so you can send them to me, lol.
Don't know what would eat them though..

 

[Flameback Pair]

First of all are they reef-safe? If they are then I want some. If they aren't then get a six-line wrasse, they eat all kinds of worms and crawling stuff.

 

[bif24701]

I have been manually removing tons of these little serpent stars. I see there legs under ever single frag plug. Under the frag there is a few of them. I see they are starting to annoy my zoas. What can i do to get rid of them? Anything that will eat them?
Thx
Brani

Why remove them? Could you have miss ID'ed them? They may be micro brittle stars and those are 100% reef safe. If they are small, as in tiny, 1-2" only most likely are micro brittle stars. Keep them.

 

[Branespikin]

Yes they are micro brittle stars. I have hundreds of them in my 65 gallon. I know they are beneficial but can there be too much? Like i said i dint really mind them much but when they are under every plug or disk and they wrap their legs around everything ontop of the frag plug (mostly zoas) and the zoas do not open much anymore. So i got hundreds of dollars in zoa plugs and half of them stay closed cuz they like to tickle my zoas. I pick them out and zoas open but next few days they are back under plugs.

 

[Branespikin]

These guys

 

[Grey Guy]

Start selling them to your LFS for store credit.

 

[cmcoker]

People will buy them, guy had an offer of around a dozen for $20 on sale thread not long back and had lots of responses. So if you can sump them, I bet somebody would buy them.