Red-legged Hermits Eat Starfish

[martinmcnally]

No my tank is 4 years old and the star fish has been in there for at least a year. I could see him trying to get away from the crabs. This happened to me years ago too when a hitch hiker crab was eating another starfish I had. I removed the crab and the star fish recovered nicely. I will keep an eye on him, he is in my sump now, there is sand in there too. Hopefully it recovers now.

Martin

[gobytron]

what is your sandbed like?


A healthy starfish should be able to get away from a hermit, but stranger things have happened.

Just an FYI though, wit an established but too small/shallow sandbed, you would expect a sandsifting star to take about a year before it's appetite exceed the micro fauna in your sandbeds ability to reproduce fast enough.

[martinmcnally]

Sand bed is about and inch and a half deep with a mix of coarse and fine crushed coral. Its also looking a little dirty.

[gobytron]

Heres a really good site for info on this organism.

I highly suggest giving it a glance over.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/sndsftstrfaqs.htm