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t11t5
03/08/2007, 01:24 AM
I was laying down this evening on my couch watching my tank. I was watching my orange linkia star. He was moving on the glass towards my large BTA. One of the linkia's arms touched the BTA. The linkia started to move away then just let go of the glass and fell right in the middle of my BTA. By the time I jumped up and got to my tank the BTA closed halfway around the linkia. As I pulled the BTA closed even more. I did manage to pull the linkia out. That was a close one. Now I'm nervous if it will happen again and I wont be there...
Tang Salad
03/08/2007, 01:25 AM
Wow! Great catch.
t11t5
03/10/2007, 01:30 AM
Keeping my eye's on my star.
t11t5
03/19/2007, 10:22 AM
I have been watching the star and he does not seem to go near the BTA now...
davidryder
03/19/2007, 11:16 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9512894#post9512894 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by t11t5
I have been watching the star and he does not seem to go near the BTA now...

Probably a coincidence. Do starfish have brains? Anyway, I think the BTA would eventually spit the starfish out when it realized it wasn't really edible to it.

But, I'm sure stranger things have happened!
Snowboarda42
03/19/2007, 11:52 AM
good catch, hows the star doing?
t11t5
03/22/2007, 11:27 AM
It is doing great. It ate all my pink sponge. Oh well it was free.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/t11t5/150g270.jpg
davidryder
03/22/2007, 11:34 AM
Yeah a lot of starfish are coral killers :(
SpektralerSpeer
03/22/2007, 12:08 PM
A sponge is not a coral. It is probable that sponges are a large part of the diet of some Linckia spp. in the wild. This may be why some of them don't last very long in our systems.

Paul
t11t5
03/22/2007, 10:57 PM
You can see in this pic all the pink sponge on my GSP. All the pink is gone. I will post a recent pic soon. Here is one of it before the star got to it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/t11t5/150g122.jpg