Siscim23
11/05/2008, 11:40 PM
I have a few sand sifters and one of them I noticed was missing a leg, all the way to the mouth. Then I saw on top of another leg there was a chuck missing (about 1 cm long). It was still moving around the tank fine so I assumed it was going to be okay. Today I noticed a second leg almost completely gone, only about 1/2" left and it was chewed up some.
Fish/inverts include:
damsels, Scopus Tang, skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 clowns, 1 green chromis, turbo snails, hermit crabs, horseshoe crab, and I had a blue knuckle hermit crab but I haven't seen it in about a month.
I see some of the starfish going through a hammer torch coral I have, but I don't think this could harm them. and I saw a small piece of one of the starfish legs near a bubble coral. Could the corals sting starfish?
Any ideas as to what could be munching on the starfish? It's only one of them that I see damage, the other 2 are fine. I seem to remember someone mentioned starfish eat themselves if the do not find anything to eat? Could this be the case as well (if that is even true)?
Fish/inverts include:
damsels, Scopus Tang, skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 clowns, 1 green chromis, turbo snails, hermit crabs, horseshoe crab, and I had a blue knuckle hermit crab but I haven't seen it in about a month.
I see some of the starfish going through a hammer torch coral I have, but I don't think this could harm them. and I saw a small piece of one of the starfish legs near a bubble coral. Could the corals sting starfish?
Any ideas as to what could be munching on the starfish? It's only one of them that I see damage, the other 2 are fine. I seem to remember someone mentioned starfish eat themselves if the do not find anything to eat? Could this be the case as well (if that is even true)?