why Chocolate star is not reef safe?

[dz6t]

Why? Thanks

 

[JohnK]

I think they munch on corals but I may be wrong

 

[dz6t]

what kind of coral? SPS or softy? Thanks

 

[JohnK]

I don't know, I would gess various, but I don't really know.

 

[super cook]

I had one and over night it ate whole rocks covered in zoo's plus he always nocked things over.

 

[ReeferMedic]

Stars w/thick legs are not reef safe. Stars w/skinny legs, ie serpeants, brittles, and most linkias are safe. I know they will eat your bivalves by prying open their shell just enough to expel their stomach into it and they will digest it that way. Not too sure about which corals they will go after......

 

[ceige]

they will even eat sponges,feather dusters, some even say snails...just about anything they can get around. Some claim if you target feed them often they will stay full and leave everything alone.....it is best bet to stay away from them in a reef tank.....

 

[Pat H.]

Dong, I had one in a FOWLR and that thing ate every bit of life on the outside of the rocks and probably some inside too!! Vorasious (sp?) appetites. And I have seen it eat snails just by surrounding them with it's stomach. Cool to watch, but not for a reef IMO.