Thought i'd post a lesson I learned when I first started up reef keeping a few years ago. I went to the LFS and saw a chocolate chip star, bought it because it looked cool. Got home acclimated him and put him in my tank. Slowly over the course of 2 weeks I noticed that my soft coral population was shrinking. I spent a night with a red light looking into my tank and found the culprate. It was the star fish eating a late night snack. Lesson learned and brought hime back to the LFS.
Thanks for sharing Kassun! Yeah, unfortunately, the items that look the coolest in the LFSs sometimes aren't researched enough as to whether they really belong in our tanks! They are beautiful though!
hence the term "reef safe" which chocolate chips stars are NOT.
this just re-enforces the fact that you should research what you get before you get it..
thanks for bringing it up, hopefully it prevents others from having similar issues
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I started off with a Chocolate star but due to what i think was improper aclamation he started to fall apart so i gave him away to a friend that has a reef tank. it regenerated and has been in the tank now since about april. the only thing i hear him complaining about is its always knocking over the corals and making everyone mad. he plans on getting rid of it to a FO tank.
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