hitch hiking star ID... reef safe?

[wes]

found this lil' guy in one of the tanks at har-mar, nabbed him before he disappeared again... anyone have any ideas?

http://www.tcmas.org/forums/imagehosting/884760b7e55264e.jpg

[wes]

anyone have a clue? I'm acclimating him and I'd like to know before I toss him in the sump or the display... he'd be a bitch to get out of there, he's pretty cryptic.

[Chad Vossen]

good chance it will be similar to the linkia starfish. to me, starfish have different shapes and each shape seems to be generally similar in diets. i could be completely wrong, but chocolate starfish and other starfish with similar body shape seem to eat the same things.

i could be completely wrong, i dont know much on starfish either. but i thought id add my opinion.

[wes]

I did some searching about and believe it to be Linckia multifora, though a rather drab coloration thereof.

[hypertech]

Looks like something I've seen labeled as a dalmatian linkia although the coloration is different.

[David Grigor]

I have a very similiar looking starfish. Can't positively id but quite sure it's reef safe.

[storrisch]

dalmation linkia was my first guess as well.

[oyam123]

I have had one for years, and it always pops up after every tank change; and thats a lot :nuts:
It seems to like the glass, and never messed with any corals (but I never rally kept SPS).

[lottie_pufferfish]

What about it being of fomia?