Chocolate Chip Starfish Eaten Alive! - Aquarium Advice

blindskate · 04-11-2008, 01:18 PM

so..this happened about a month ago.

i had a yellow tail damsel and a 3 stripe damsel. and a chocolate chip starfish. they ate him alive...

anybody else have this happen?

i didnt watch and let it heppen, i come home and he had a gaping hole in between to legs.

**roka64** · 04-11-2008, 01:35 PM

He was probably already dead. How did you acclimate him?

blindskate · 04-11-2008, 01:37 PM

it seemed like he was eaten alive, but 2 days after i got him i did a water change and i know theyre intolerant to sudden shifts in water parameters...so its up in the air

eaten...or died =/

prolly died

amkelly · 04-11-2008, 11:43 PM

consider yourself lucky... chocolate chip starfish are ruthless, i had one and he ate my bicolor angel.. he found his way to the toilet.. im just kidding i sold him back though

blindskate · 04-12-2008, 12:10 AM

the starfish ate yer fish?!...deng

**melosu58** · 04-12-2008, 05:49 PM

The fish was already dead right?

tamra&steven · 04-12-2008, 08:31 PM

you might as well take you star fish back and get a small type the big starfish like you have will climb on clams and other small inverts of fish and eat them too. they are just not for small fish of reef tanks.

04-11-2008, 01:18 PM	#1
blindskate Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: VA BEACH Posts: 182 Images: 8	Chocolate Chip Starfish Eaten Alive! so..this happened about a month ago. i had a yellow tail damsel and a 3 stripe damsel. and a chocolate chip starfish. they ate him alive... anybody else have this happen? i didnt watch and let it heppen, i come home and he had a gaping hole in between to legs.

04-12-2008, 08:31 PM	#7
tamra&steven Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington Beach Posts: 175	you might as well take you star fish back and get a small type the big starfish like you have will climb on clams and other small inverts of fish and eat them too. they are just not for small fish of reef tanks. __________________ 60 ga. SPS tank w/ 2 - 175w 20k halides, korallin 1502 calcium reactor w/ph contorler 24ga. SW nano w/150 HQI 180ga. FW aggresive fish 125ga. FW w/60ga. sump. VERY aggresive fish

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04-11-2008, 01:37 PM	#3
blindskate Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: VA BEACH Posts: 182 Images: 8	it seemed like he was eaten alive, but 2 days after i got him i did a water change and i know theyre intolerant to sudden shifts in water parameters...so its up in the air eaten...or died =/ prolly died

04-11-2008, 11:43 PM	#4
amkelly Aquarium Advice Regular Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 75	consider yourself lucky... chocolate chip starfish are ruthless, i had one and he ate my bicolor angel.. he found his way to the toilet.. im just kidding i sold him back though

04-12-2008, 12:10 AM	#5
blindskate Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: VA BEACH Posts: 182 Images: 8	the starfish ate yer fish?!...deng