Brittle starfish is a monster!

[yuji]

I feed the spirulina tablets to my fishes as a supplement, and today I dropped in 1, and the starfish readily swallowed the entire tablet! Then I dropped in another, hoping my other fishes get a chance to eat it, but the starfish eats it up again!

Is there a way to stop this monster?

[giantbicycle]

remove it lor

[kareen]

one simple sugguestion.... drop two tablet at two different locations as far apart as possible.

[weileong]

your bristle star move faster than your fish????

[yuji]

one simple sugguestion.... drop two tablet at two different locations as far apart as possible.

That was what I did, but the starfish seems to know the tricks and immediately it starts to move toward the tablets and gobble them up. Haha, now the starfish looks so bloated. Too bad I don't have a DC, otherwise I'll post a pic here.

[yuji]

your bristle star move faster than your fish????

It doesn't move faster than my fishes, although I would say it is very alert and agile. The reason my fishes can't consume the tablets immediately is because the tablets are hard, and it takes time for the tablets to soften in the water. By then, the starfish would have taken the entire tablet.

I'm not removing the starfish as it is a very good cleaner in my tank.

[nicholasloh]

cut off all its legs

[pegasus1010]

when the starfish is on the sandbed, drop another tablet on mid level rock.

i am sure it will take sometime for the starfish to get to the rock.

[Gouldian]

I feed the spirulina tablets to my fishes as a supplement, and today I dropped in 1, and the starfish readily swallowed the entire tablet! Then I dropped in another, hoping my other fishes get a chance to eat it, but the starfish eats it up again!

Is there a way to stop this monster?

Where you get your spirulina tablets? What brands and $$$$?

[typrobin]

how bout u soak (soften) the tablets before droppin into your tank, use saltwater to soak...this way, your fishes will get to eat them 1st...

[yuji]

Where you get your spirulina tablets? What brands and $$$$?

The brand of the spirulina tablets is Nutrafin. Cost abt $8.

[yuji]

how bout u soak (soften) the tablets before droppin into your tank, use saltwater to soak...this way, your fishes will get to eat them 1st...

Hmm.. you have a point. I can be abit lazy though. Haha!

[AhLoon]

What I do is that I'll break the tablets into half, throw them at different sides of the tank simultaneously.

[XPeriment 626]

lol. starfish outrunning fish.

[tivoli]

Hi bro,

the brittle star is not a joke..... <<warning>>

I used to keep a 3 inch black brittle star, and that

monster actually went after my blood shrimp ate it up.

It swallowed two of my 2inch blood shrimps and a pregant 3inch

cleaner shrimp. while I was in reservist. My wife saw that big

monster cornering my shrimps but I ask her not to put her hands in ....

When I came back I flush that thing down my toilet bowl .....

Please monitor your monster and don't let it be a tragedy.

Cheers

[shiraz]

never encountered it before with my brittlestar but maybe because mine is very very VERY small.. dosen't seem to do a good job at cleaning as well..

[Reefbum]

Bro yuji, why not give your star sleeping tablet.Then your fish got chance mah

[RAV-65]

Flush down the toilet bowl??

[ReDDeviLs]

feed it to the shrimp!! haha k jokes aside, try to grin them into small pieces or tie it on something to avoid the star from eating.