Feeding Sea Star

[jvan]

I have a biocube 29 with a serpent sea star. I have read threads about people target feeding it by hand. What and how does everyone feed there sea stars?

[taillonjohn]

I used to target feed my serpent star by putting a piece of a frozen food cube in the sand close to the star. The star would goto the food, and take in the whole chunk in one "swallow". cool to watch.

But, I've grown lazy, and havent target fed it since last summer, so I'm not sure what it eats. scavenges I guess. but I still see it every day, and looks as healthy as the first day I got it

[EdKruzel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11607398#post11607398 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by taillonjohn
scavenges I guess.

Bingo!!! There's no reason to target feed, a serpent is a very successful and beneficial part of a clean up crew that will find any and all leftovers.

[hyrumbradshaw]

dont serpent stars eat the fish???

[stuccodude]

if the fish dies

[oldschooldino]

My friend had a green serpent star. IIRC he used to feed it those algae dics. He would drop a few on the sand next to it, and it would pull them in. He had to get rid of it because it started eating all his snails. It was almost a foot long when he pulled it out!

[plummike]

1 or 2 times a week, I feed them a piece of Shrimp

[Salamander]

The green ones can eat fish etc when they get larger.

[Akronviper]

I give my serpant star and pep shrimp a couple chunks of shrimp I get from the store and freeze. I just slice off a few chunk and I used to just drop in the general location of them but now I use a sea sea squirt to target feed. If you have pep shrimps then you have to get the food very close to the star or by the time he get out of his hiding area its gone.

I do this once a week or so. The first 5 months I had them I didnt feed them once so I dont think they really need it but its fun.

[scowiii]

mine had babies was pretty cool. Because it's top disk came off but we thought it was injured and looked it up on the internet and found out that how it reproduces and then it healed and we looked at our coral and saw hundreds of babies. Unfortuantely for them they became hermit food.

[jvan]

thanks for the info