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spiders in salt water tank

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Question
hello, I am trying to identify a spider living in the rock in the tank... likes to stay in the zoo colonies.  It is small no larger than a quarter in diameter... looks like it has fizzy legs, reddish/white stripes.  6 legs are coming out of the center of the body.

I spotted a few of them.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
bella

Answer
Hello Bella,

SPIDERS, ewww, gives me the 'eeby geebies'   <shivers>

Maybe they are mini brittle starfish???

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&q=mini%...

If so, they are cool.  red stripes are kinda rare... I have mostly green/grey/black and white

anyways, please let me kno wif this is what you are looking at


bill