Alien like feather-star-sea-creature

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Didn’t know where to post this thing. Figured it’s some type of arthropod creature.

Researchers just revealed this 20-armed creature found off the coast of Antarctica

In ocean expeditions between 2008 and 2017, researchers explored the 'cryptic' biodiversity of Antarctica, discovering a 'strawberry feather star'.

www.usatoday.com

Behold a 20-armed, strawberry-shaped Antarctic sea creature

The invertebrates were identified using telltale DNA markers, which revealed these odd spineless creatures were actually eight species.

www.popsci.com

 

[The Snark]

Figured it’s some type of arthropod creature.

Eukaryote

 

[somebugnerd]

They are cool critters! Feather stars are Echinoderms, the same phylum as sea stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. Here is a video with more information (many of them can swim!):

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[catboyeuthanasia]

Keeping crinoids seems really freaking difficult. You'll need crystal-clear, stable water inspite of adding continuous planktonic food. Apparently, these guys also ship really poorly.

However, I have seen some for sale, and this guy seems to have some success:

A Journey in Crinoid Keeping

By Michael Lukaczyn About thirty years ago on my birthday, my father gave me a Metaframe aquarium with a pair of seahorses that he had bred. They were beauti

reefs.com

If you want an eldrich starfish in your aquarium, a basket star is easier to keep (pill milipede hard instead of public zoo hard) and, in my oppinion, freakier looking:

https://imgur.com/gallery/SUOT722/

 

[Sugarpill]

Keeping crinoids is definitely difficult, but they’re so lovely! I had mine for almost 2 years before I broke the tank down and sold everything, it was pretty but so delicate