Although they may find enough food in the tank it is still a good idea to feed them directly as well. Brittle stars are omnivores — eating both algae and meaty marine foods.
You can try to feed your Brittle Star very small pieces of fresh raw seafoods using a feeding stick. Brittle Stars can be considered reef tank safe since they will leave corals, fish and other reef invertebrates alone. They have many predators, so brittle stars usually only come out at night.
Creatures that snack on brittle stars include fish, crabs, hermit crabs, mantis shrimp and even sea stars and other brittle stars. This brittle star lives only in feather stars! Starfish reproduce sexually by spawning. Spawning means that the sex cells are released into the water. Take a glass, cup or any smaller container that the star can fit in.
Sink it in the acclimation water mix and get the star inside it. Raise the container and add even more tank water so the container is very unlikely to have any old water.
Starfish are saltwater invertebrates who require a lot of care and attention. Most starfish species can only hold their breath for less than 30 seconds. Here is a brief table detailing what each species of popular aquarium starfish eat.
Chopped clams, shrimp and squid. They will eat soft corals, sponges, and tubeworms. Do starfish bite? He messed up his jaw. I mean ripped it off. Poor thing could not eat any more and starved. I trained mine to take sea weed peices off of some tongs. Last night when I tried to feed my anenome a silver side, my serpent star came up and stole the entire fish from the anenome then shoved the 3inch long fish into his 1inch body.
It looked like a tent with a tent pole that was WAY too long. Just creepy. I like mine, but I might remove it once I can find a nice small red fromia. Would rather have one of those then the serpent. I haz a green and white one.. That's pretty cool. I guess I'll have to start keeping him at bay as well with some meatier foods. Stars of all kinds are insane eaters.
They will just eat and eat and eat as much as they can find. I just had to get rid of my green brittle star. He had gotten to almost 24 inches across and decided that the normal food was not enough and snacked on my firefish.
My other serpent star leaves my fish alone. I'm updating here, I think I figured out why starfish was coming out of hiding. It had a scrape from a piece of rock and the peppermint shrimp were harrassing it down behind the rocks, so I had to chase the pepps away and put starfish into hospital tank tonight, it seems to be settled down in there. I hope it heals. I don't want to keep him in there too long because it's difficult to keep the water params pristine. Last edited: Jun 17, Click to expand D3monic Member.
Hear any snapping sounds at night? Yes, some serpent stars WILL eat fish. The key word though is "some". For the most part fish are safe with most serpent stars, but there is that rare occasion where a fish is consumed.
And, of course, they have the power of regeneration. Arms that become detached from the central disk CAN regrow — over time. There are even abyssal species living as deep as 20, feet m! Depending on their size, they may also hide out in the branches or coral or the inner chambers of sponges. This habitat offers them protection from the predators seeking to make a meal out of their delicious tube feet or crunch down on that skeleton.
Once night falls, though, they slink out into the open. The tube feet along those arms sweep up zooplankton, detritus, and bits of leftover food, passing it up to their mouths comprised of FIVE jaws — noticing a theme? And it also helps reshape the sand along the ocean floor as they sweep those arms around.
Without serpent starfish around as engineers, the sediment might lack crucial turning over. Serpent starfish are opportunistic scavengers. This means they eat almost anything they find or catch. Then, when they swipe their tube feet along their arm, the feet wipe off any tasty morsels and pass them up to the mouth.
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