Please help me identify

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Hi guys I spotted a star in my tank and need help identifying it. Safe or not
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yip your corals are safe. they are algae eaters. not the best but they are cool to have. and like Butcheman says, they multiply like weeds
 
yes, they are safe... up to a point. If in sufficient numbers they will become opportunistic and eat some corals. They normally eat the biofilm algae growing on the glass and that is where you will see most of them. I had thousands, and they ate up my cheato ball. Got 2 harlequin shrimps and they took care of them within a relative short time span. So much that I had to sell the harlequins because they run out of food.

Think they also bother Monti and some SPS, if their numbers are too high. Others can confirm here, as I got a softy system. They did bother my Pipe organ coral which is a LPS. Just keep an eye out on them.
 
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