I got another freebie Micro Brittle Star tonight!!

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Abarnswell

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I went to my LFS and picked up some empty shells for my blue-legged hermits, and guess what!! Another stowaway Micro Brittle Star!! That's two now in just a few days. They must have these Micros all throughout their livestock tanks. Now I have two of them! Woohoo! I think I'll go back and buy all their empty shells -- I'd probably have a herd of Micro Stars that way. :)
 
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dragon79

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Abarnswell said:
I went to my LFS and picked up some empty shells for my blue-legged hermits, and guess what!! Another stowaway Micro Brittle Star!! That's two now in just a few days. They must have these Micros all throughout their livestock tanks. Now I have two of them! Woohoo! I think I'll go back and buy all their empty shells -- I'd probably have a herd of Micro Stars that way. :)
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how funny, congrats!
 
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incysor

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It's not like your normal LFS is trying to sell these little guys...They're just present in the coral tanks and hitch-hike on your purchases. This is pretty common. Sometimes you can get them if your LFS has a tank setup to sell live sand out of. Another good possibility would be if they're selling macro algae.

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incysor

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Yep. It's amazing how many I find when I do a water change and I vacuum up detritus/algae.

I do my best to rescue them before pouring the old water out, but I'm sure I lose some of them.

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drty811

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:cry: i still dont have any, i go to all the nearest LFS and thats all i look for, even on the display tanks and LS tank. no luck ever someday..... :mrgreen:
 
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sadielynn

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i still dont have any, i go to all the nearest LFS and thats all i look for, even on the display tanks and LS tank. no luck ever someday.....
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same here it seems that our lfs pick them clean as best as possible wouldn want the customer to get a freebee :mrgreen:
 
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Abarnswell

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I must be getting these little darlings from somewhere, because now there are more than I can count in my tank. At night, after dark, I get out a flashlight and look on my sand bed and those little arms are waving all over the place. I don't know how many I have now, but there are quite a number of them.

They must be coming in rock, or coral frags (with rocks), I did buy some macroalgae -- maybe they came in with that, empty hermit shells, etc... I could watch these little guys for hours -- they are very entertaining and very cute.
 
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