Whats wrong with the stars I picked up? I reslize no one really knows what they eat other than they are filter feeders (from the research I have done), but are they endangered or threatened?.
I am feeding
dt's daily and just picked up a filter feeder frozen food pack from my
LFS. I thought that couldnt hurt, my corals will be happy if not the stars.
Update: The feather has found a spot he likes and opens and closes a few arms every so often. Luckily it is in the front of my tank
The basket moves little but stretches out across a coral at night...and durring the day balls up... Here is something I found at
Basket Star on Coral
"Basket Stars are one of the stranger cousins of starfish. These creatures look so plantlike that I don't know
how long I have been diving without recognizing these as living animals! These
echinoderms attach themselves
to a coral head or sea fan. During the day it coils itself into a knotted ball, but at night it stretches out all
of it's legs into a basket-like shape, fishing for plankton and other microscopic critters.
This photo shows a young Basket Star approximately three inches in diameter."
