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…
Good news for west coast starfish
Record numbers of baby Pisaster starfish are returning to Oregon and Norther California’s coastline after a mysterious wasting disease decimated whole populations over the past two years. The disease was first seen in sea star populations along the west coast…
Starfish digestion video proves these slow moving inverts are not so innocent
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”450″]http://vimeo.com/45154593[/vimeo] The only thing potentially better than living comfortably between two shells, happy as a clam, is living in a tight cluster as a mussel. That is until your defenses are turned against you. The slow moving Pisaster…
