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loki

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Hi, just thought I would share a photo of my new Chocolate Chip star fish. I have a few mushrooms but have decided that I am basically going to just have a fish only with live rock and the few mushrooms I have. Hopefully I can keep "Chippy" happy enough to leave my mushrooms alone since they are not reef safe stars. Corals are so darn expensive here and I would need to upgrade my lights too. My mushrooms are doing awesome so I will just stay with that.

loki.... :blob
 

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incysor

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I'd keep a close eye on it. These guys are known to eat corals. I don't know whether mushrooms, or the particular species of mushrooms you have are on the diet, but I'd be wary of it myself.

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Sugar Magnolia

Sugar Magnolia

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Yeah, they do eat corals, so you may lose those shrooms. Not a bad thing IMO as I had to try and eradicate a ton of shrooms from my cube. They reproduce like rabbits!
 
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loki

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Hi, yes I do know they like corals. My few small mushrooms I am not worried about. What I would like to know is, which is better to have with this type of star fish "Snails or Crabs"?

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loki

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sulp, I don't think so. I am a beginner to marine but do know that those shrimp eat stars as their main diet........... :wh
 
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Anonymous

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Hey loki
Your right -do not get a harlequin! They eat starfish tube feet as a sole source of food in their diet. Many experts say not to even buy harlequins because they need to eat starfish to survive. However all of the common cleaner shrimps are cool - look for white tenticles - thats how to tell if it is a cleaner. If you want strange, arrow crabs and sally lightfoots are cool crabs. But as with most crabs - not completely "reef safe".
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sulp

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Geeeze.....It was a joke. I thought you would have gotten my sarcasm with the phrase "they would get along nicely"
 
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