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Good looking, hardy and utilitarian, a Sand Sifting Star, Archaster typicus Müller & Troschel, 1840. As with dealing with all sizable burrowing animals, make sure your rocky habitat is securely placed on the bottom of the tank (not the substrate). And beware re stocking these subterranean sifters... they are rapacious feeders on all interstitial fauna... denuding systems of only hundreds of gallons. NOT to be used in reef systems where you want to have good populations of these beneficial organisms.
 

Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840), the Luzon Sea Star; Indo-Pacific (East Africa to Indo., P.I.) on shallow reefs. Variable in color. Easily discards arms that regenerate. Symbiotic w/ copepods and comb jellies. Here in Bali, Indo. is one showing symbiotic Comb Jellies attached to its arms.



Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840), the Luzon Sea Star; Indo-Pacific (East Africa to Indo., P.I.) on shallow reefs. Variable in color. Easily discards arms that regenerate. Symbiotic w/ copepods and comb jellies. Fiji pic.
 

Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840), the Luzon Sea Star; Indo-Pacific (East Africa to Indo., P.I.) on shallow reefs. Variable in color. Easily discards arms that regenerate. Symbiotic w/ copepods and comb jellies. Aquarium pic, Sacramento, CA.
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