Brittle star being attacked and eaten

[wab]

Hey, all. Like the subject states my brittle star is under attack. I have in the tank 1 yellow coral banded shrimp. 2 peppermint shrimp 1 domino damsel, 1 gold damsel, 1 convict damsel, 1 cinnamin clown, 1 gold gobie and 1 emerald crab. The rest of the tank is clean-up crew hermits about 10 and assorted snails. Thanks in advance for any help.

[jgln]

Are you seeing it being eaten or are you just seeing pieces missing? Tips of the legs?
I have had them for many years and I believe they eat themselves when they do not get enough food and that was confirmed by "Greenbean" I believe, who is pretty knowledgeable. Do a search and you may find the other thread. I have never had mine die from this but it is a shame when it happens. Odd thing is sometimes when I find them like that and I offer food they decline it. Eventually once this habit stops they will regrow them back.

[kraze3]

I assume you are trying to find out what is attacking it. I would start with the damsels. They are very territorial and I have had them fight other fish and kill shrimp before. I would think the brittle star would hide in the rockwork if being attacked.

Are you sure you have a coral banded shrimp? It will kill our peppermint shrimp if it is one.

[wab]

Oh yea, its a banded coral. I think he killed my skunk cleaner, but who knows.

[kraze3]

I have not heard of them attacking bristle stars but they will attack some crabs and other shrimp so it might be possible.

[wab]

Thanks

[jgln]

I'm confused, has anything been answered here yet except the fact that you have a coral banded shrimp?

[mbell09]

i had a damsel that killed both of my brittles and kept nipping at the soft corals had to take back to lfs

[wab]

he looks really bad today if he is doing this to himself, he is really hungry. Probably the damsels

[MileHighFish]

Give him a cube of food.. it will rap it up and suck it down quick

[wab]

Ok put a brick of food next to him and he ran away??????????????

[MileHighFish]

Thats not a good sign, how is your water quality?

[wab]

All my water is good zero's across the board plenty of flow. He looks worse ?????