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05-08-2006, 12:19 PM
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| Plankton Join Date: Dec 2005
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  |  starfish food? i'm doing an experiment involving starfish and their orientation toward food. do starfish eat shrimp? i've been mashing up tiny bits of shrimp and placing them in the tank several inches away from the starfish, and they show know apparent interest in the tasty morsel. anyone know what's going on? |
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05-08-2006, 12:58 PM
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| 3reef Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CT Age: 40
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    | What kind of starfish are you talking about? _________  |
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05-08-2006, 01:05 PM
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| Eyelash Blennie  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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 | What she said  Different stars will eat different foods. The common serpents and brittle stars will eat meaty foods all day long. Jim _________ 90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. |
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05-08-2006, 02:02 PM
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| Skunk Shrimp  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kenosha, Wisconsin Age: 25
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| My serpent eats krill. _________ 75 G Display, 12 G Refuge, 12 G sump, 1/10 Chiller, Coralife Skimmer, 300 Watts MH 14,000 K, 356 Watts of Actinic PC Lighting, 120 Pounds of Substrate, 109 lbs of Rock. Corals: Pumping Xenia, colt, Hammer, 4 misc mushroom groups. Fish: 2 Ocellaris Clowns, Yellow Tang. Inverts: turbo snails, astrea snails, tiger striped serpent star, sifting star, skunk cleaner shrimp, sally, red ball sponge, 50 or so hermit crabs |
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05-08-2006, 02:32 PM
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| Peppermint Shrimp Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CT Age: 33
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| Many stars will eat bits of shrimp, even linckias. Not all stars move with a sense of urgency like brittles and serpents can though so don't mistake an "easy going" attitude for lack of interest. |
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05-08-2006, 03:01 PM
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| Giant Squid Join Date: Jan 2006
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   | Most Stars eat all sorts of meaty foods ie. shrimp, clam, cyclops, rotifers, detritus and an occassional small fish!!!Yes I said fish! The emerald/green brittle will capture and eat a small fish if it is able to trap it so be cautious, all of you who have one in your tank... _________ 125gal.,75gal.,3gal. and 1gal. tanks Yellow,Naso,Tomini,Sohal Tang, Pink Tail Trigger, Snowflake Eel, BANDED CAT SHARK,Hardwicki, Six-Line Wrasse, Blennies/Gobies- Soft and Stony Corals (Crocea, Derasa clams) +numerous inverts "IF THE PHONE DOESN'T RING...IT'S ME"  jbassociated content.com aka parrothead |
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05-12-2006, 07:03 PM
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| Astrea Snail  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Canada
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| I second that, I have a sand sifting star and it will eat anything it can get it's arms on. I have to feed it chunks of uncooked shrimp from the grocerier so it doesn't go after the snails. It took down a sick and dying Keyhole Angel. At first I couldn't figure out why my snails were dying and with empty shells in great numbers and one day found the star eating a snail. |
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05-16-2006, 09:48 AM
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| Purple Spiny Lobster  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: London, ON, Canada
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| Toonens thoughts on Linckia feeding were published in his A.A. Invertebrate Non-Column, Sea Stars -- Linckia spp SEA STARS --- LINCKIA spp |
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05-16-2006, 08:23 PM
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| Eyelash Blennie  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: berwick, PA,Pennsylvania
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 | What type of starfish do you have? I have a orange linkia and it doesnt really seem to go after any type of food it just cruises around. I guess it eats some alge, left over junk in the rocks. when it goes thru an alge spot it cleans it up pretty well. I do have mini brittle stars in the rock though there arms stick out and they grab any type of food that floats by there not picky. They dont seem to get over an inch long. _________ karlahttp://www.3reef.com/uploads/1karla1.jpg75 gall, 80 lbs sand, 110 lb lr, 10k pcs, atinics, emperor 400, prizm skimmer, hagen and maxi jet powerheads |
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05-17-2006, 08:20 AM
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| Eyelash Blennie Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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| Ray, Nice article on the Linkia Thanks for the link....... I have never brought one home before and have heard  that they were hard to keep. This was a good read and helped me better understand their requirements.Jim |
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