Tan and red hitchhikers (well-armed)

I recently bought an Eagle Eye colony from LFS and quickly discovered I had acquired a small family of stars (legs poking out around polyps). A few days ago they started to get brave enough to start roaming the QT.

I'm not sure if the one in pic 2 is the same as in pic 3 (were taken days apart), as there were at least 4, maybe more, stars in the colony.

 

Now they seem to be more adventurous...

 

mini brittle stars?? maybe. i have some but all i see is arms waving out of the rocks. i never seem them all the way out like that.

 

They're about 3 in from leg tip to leg tip, not sure the pic shows that. So I guess they're either mini or just young.

 

Pics 1 and 3 in post one, and pic 2 in post two are definitely brittle stars. The other two, however, look more like spiny serpent stars. They're all juvies, of course. (Damn, you are lucky!)

 

Thanks. I'm pretty sure they're all brittle stars since all have spines on arms. The camera resolution may not show as well as I would like, but they are there.

 

Mini brittle stars...I have white ones and green/tan ones....great for your reef....free CUC.

Lucky you to get red/tan ones.

 

Would agree with luck sentiment... if my a/c hadn't died 3 days ago. Fortunately we had a monster storm yesterday and it cooled things down a bit. Now sitting at 83 deg...and holding I hope.

 

Spiny serpents have spines, too. I was also looking at the larger central disk and slightly thicker legs. But perhaps it is the camera (or my ancient eyes- lol), so I won't argue the point. Either way, you're still lucky!

Cheers

 

Those are some awesome hitchhikers! I sure wouldn't mind getting a bunch of them lol.