George (2004) found that, when compared to controls, subjects with DPN exhibited significantly lower walking velocity, and cadence, as well as impaired reaction time and ability to produce rhythmic limb acceleration (9).
Brittle stars are a moderately popular invertebrate in fishkeeping. They can easily thrive in marine tanks; in fact, the micro brittle star is a common hitchhiker that will propagate and become common in almost any saltwater tank, if one happens to come along on some live rock.
*Caption for graph: This pie graph represents the occurances of brittle stars, fireworms or both found under the 51 rocks turned over. This shows that a majority of rocks turned over had both fireworms and brittle stars.