Serpent/brittle stars
- Thread starter Star_Rider
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bad most of the time they will make a fake cave and trap innocent inverts like hermits and eat them but they are great scavengers i have them in my reef 75 gal so far no issues that have been SEEN
most hermits? or brittle stars? Are you talking about those small brittle stars or big ones...I'm lost
serpent stars.. small ..they are in my fuge..i find them often when I am cleaning the skimmer..they crawl into the cheato etc.
black in color bodies are maybe 1/2" - 5/8" they look like this one
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G
black in color bodies are maybe 1/2" - 5/8" they look like this one
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=G
large, large, LARGE brittles may catch fish or inverts if they can grab a hold of them. But just about all healthy fish are strong enough to get away as long as the star isn't ginormous. But honestly, i truly believe that almost all of these reports of them eating things are just scape-goats for why a fish died.
Also, they dont have a brain, they cant build a cave to trap something. But may try to suck on to something that they come across, but once again, that pretty much never successful.
The mini-brittles are perfectly fine and are a good part of your clean up crew. You probably have a few in your main tank too.
thanks..i am pretty sure there are some in the maintank..I watched with the moonlights and you could see little arms in the LR
