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View Poll Results: Are large brittle stars safe with fish and inverts
Only the small ones are safe – don’t trust any large ones 7 11.67%
Only the green ones hunt fish – trust all of the others 11 18.33%
Colour doesn’t matter – don’t trust any of them 2 3.33%
Get it out as fast as you can 2 3.33%
Innocent until proven guilty - keep a close eye on it 17 28.33%
Innocent until proven guilty – nothing to worry about 10 16.67%
Safe with fish but not inverts 1 1.67%
Safe with inverts but not fish 0 0%
They may eat sick or dying fish - but never a healthy fish 13 21.67%
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Old 03-12-2010, 02:09 PM
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I have kept a very large Black/Grey Brittle star in my display since day 1 with NO problems. He is atleast 18" stretched across and a few years old (from a fellow canreefer). He rarely leaves his rock and scavenges for whatever falls. (I do feed my tank well though). He has never made any attempt to "catch" anything. Infact it sleeps in the same hole as the the tiny gudgeons and they have survived. They sleep directly ontop of him! It is ones of the Ophiocoma species though, different than what you have. I know the green Serpent stars are NOT safe...much more aggressive.
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