This star is good?

[BurgerFish]

It is Asteriniid stars?
Good for refugium with chaeto?

 

[Jekyl]

Asterina. Some can eat zoas from what I've heard. I have a ton in my tank and haven't bothered my palys.

 

[JGT]

Fine for refugium.

 

[Murica]

Had a couple one day... hundreds more a few days later. I personally would get rid of them

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

No. Kill it with fire! Those guys eat zoa and softies. I don’t trust any of them ever. It’s taken me years to rid my tank of them. Once you have one you’ll have a thousand quickly. They reproduce by fission. Kill any you find if you want to have corals

 

[BurgerFish]

Thanks guys. I'll kill it.

 

[N.Sreefer]

People always say they eat softies but i have a softie dominant tank with these and my coral are fine can somebody explain is there different subspecies or am i just lucky?

 

[Billdogg]

I have hundreds in my various systems. If one tank seems to be running low I'll move some from another to help it out. In 30+ years I have yet to have one eat anything other than film algae. Their population will wax and wane depending on the available food supply. IMHO, a valuable part of a healthy system.

 

[Casket_Case]

Asterina. Some can eat zoas from what I've heard. I have a ton in my tank and haven't bothered my palys.

Every time I’ve had them they’ve messed with my zoanthids. I dry them suckers out under the T5s XD

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

People always say they eat softies but i have a softie dominant tank with these and my coral are fine can somebody explain is there different subspecies or am i just lucky?

You got lucky. I hate them

 

[N.Sreefer]

You got lucky. I hate them

After a quick glance online asterina is a genus so theres 16 described species just guessing here but id assume some eat coral others don't. That would explain why some have an issue with them and others don't. I know nothing about starfish so someone correct me if im wrong.

 

[JGT]

Supposedly light color ones are OK, dark are not.

 

[Hydrored]

I have a bunch of white ones, they don’t bother a thing and if they did eat zoanthids I personally wouldn’t be mad at them. My urchin has cost me far more money that anything else in my tank

 

[dvgyfresh]

Mine just eat coralline algae kinda troll but I don’t mind them