jcarlilesiu
Aquarium Advice Addict
Major issue! So, me and my wife discovered another aptasia following our new aquascape the other day. We have been using aptasia X to kill quite a few of them, and I got to tell you, this stuff really seems to work.
Anyway, my wife went on another killing spree tonight, which requires that we turn off all pumps and power heads for 15 minutes. Following treating the aptasia, she witness what seemed like some legs feeling around out of a crevis of a rock. The legs had brittles on them and appeared white and black.
Curiosity got the better of us, so I lifted up the rock that was hiding what ever the creature was that was under it. HOLY $@!*, it was what appears to be a huge brittle star. I don't know where it came from, and didn't get a real good look at it before it fell down behind the rocks and disappeared, but it was big. The diameter of the creature including the legs spread out appeared to be about 3 or 4 inches.
I have been trying to do some research, and it looks like brittle stars are pretty well recieved. Anything that I should be worried about? Will this thing show itself under normal (lights on) circumstances or will it hide until night. I know it is a nocternal feeder.
I never expected a hitchhiker this big. The thing actually scared me when I saw it.
I obviously don't have a picture since it disappeared... but any help on what I might have seen would be appreciated.
Anyway, my wife went on another killing spree tonight, which requires that we turn off all pumps and power heads for 15 minutes. Following treating the aptasia, she witness what seemed like some legs feeling around out of a crevis of a rock. The legs had brittles on them and appeared white and black.
Curiosity got the better of us, so I lifted up the rock that was hiding what ever the creature was that was under it. HOLY $@!*, it was what appears to be a huge brittle star. I don't know where it came from, and didn't get a real good look at it before it fell down behind the rocks and disappeared, but it was big. The diameter of the creature including the legs spread out appeared to be about 3 or 4 inches.
I have been trying to do some research, and it looks like brittle stars are pretty well recieved. Anything that I should be worried about? Will this thing show itself under normal (lights on) circumstances or will it hide until night. I know it is a nocternal feeder.
I never expected a hitchhiker this big. The thing actually scared me when I saw it.
I obviously don't have a picture since it disappeared... but any help on what I might have seen would be appreciated.