Sea Star ID

[sinister]

Kind of looks like a brittle star to me... but has 6 arms, and the bristles look more like spikes than a brittle star's bristles. Pale green coloring with little red stripes.

This thing is small enough to fit on a dime. Hence the poor focus. It was another one of my hitch hikers.

 

[sinister]

I did look here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/brittlestars.htm

But didn't find anything that looked like it

 

[Mini T]

Looks like a mini brittle. It's good.

 

[303travism]

If its really small it's probably those ones that are on rocks all the time I don't know the name I used to have a bunch until my tank crashed they were never harmful actually great scavengers

 

[CRW Reef]

+1 on the brittle star

 

[sinister]

Cool. i just didn't want it to be a "green brittle" which I read are known for growing up to be fish snaggers!

 

[jahmic]

Too funny, I was just about to ask for an ID on these too. About an hour ago I saw what looked like an oddly colored bristleworm poking out of my live rock. I moved in with the flashlight and a short pair of tweezers after lights out. I was intrigued as it wrapped around them...so intrigued that I didn't notice the other 3 arms poking out of 2 different holes in the live rock...at least not until one of them wrapped around my finger.

Yes...I freaked out. Glad they are scavengers and not mini people eaters.

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[303travism]

Too funny, I was just about to ask for an ID on these too. About an hour ago I saw what looked like an oddly colored bristleworm poking out of my live rock. I moved in with the flashlight and a short pair of tweezers after lights out. I was intrigued as it wrapped around them...so intrigued that I didn't notice the other 3 arms poking out of 2 different holes in the live rock...at least not until one of them wrapped around my finger.

Yes...I freaked out. Glad they are scavengers and not mini people eaters.

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LOL!