FROMIA ROJA

-Habitat: Indo-Pacific Ocean, including the east coast of Africa and the Red Sea.

They are found in sandy and rocky sea lagoon and reef slopes.

-Morphology: pentaradial symmetrical, flat body is formed by a disc pentagonal with five arms.

They have an internal skeleton and a calcareous ambulacral system, which serves for locomotion, capturing food and breathing.

Reach a size of 7.5 to 10 cm, and can sometimes reach 15 cm.

-Maintenance:

Particularly sensitive to variations in water density. It recomeinda mature reef aquarium, where you can find algae and detritus, which are their main food.

-Food:

Detritivores, predatory and carnivorous, feeding on detritus as both of mollusks, crustaceans and other marine animals.

Breeding:

Although many of them are hermaphrodites and can spawn eggs and sperm so they can also have a curious system of asexual reproduction. In this type of reproduction, the starfish can regenerate fully from a single arm that for whatever reason has been excised.