For many decades, the quintessential Chocolate Chip Starfish, Protoreaster nodosus, has graced our FOWLR (fish only with live rock) tanks and refugiums with their magnificent spines and bright colors. Short-spine stars, Echinaster spinulosus, while less common, have been around just as long, along with a wide array of other carnivorous echinoderms such as Pencil Urchins, Eucidaris … Continue reading The Case for Carnivorous Starfish