DanMan092
Fish Fanatic
Hi all, I've come to a discovery in my tank. It started when I was ready to frag some coral and moved some rubble out of my sump into the main tank. There was a small white brittle star on the bottom of it! I just assumed it came with the rock, even though the rock had been down there for a month or two and ignored it. But today I decided to take a flashlight to the sump and see what was down there. I saw my little white brittle star, and about 7 to 8 others! most were just arms poking out of the debris that has accumulated but I could see the bodies on some. Here's the real shocker though. For almost a year I have had a Green Serpent star living in my sump. I'm pretty sure he ate my first watchman Goby so I caught him and moved him to the sump. He's been down there since then, surviving somehow, since I feed him maybe every 2 to 3 months, usually a block of frozen mysis, or some salmon or something. Anyway, he's still miraculously alive and is probably about 9 inches from arm to arm. I know that sea stars can reproduce by losing arms but he didn't lose any, plus if he had he would have to lose the entire thing to have part of the stomach, which he didn't do because than these stars would have been as big as him. Plus there are a whole bunch of them. So do you think these are different species that came from the piece of rock I put down there? I just sort of felt like explaining it. The thing is, my sump is in two halves and all of these stars are in the half the big one is not in, with the pump up to the display tank.
