Harlequin shrimp ?

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carpetreef75

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Harlequin shrimp question , my 2 Harlequin shrimp have devoured just about every asterina and i bought a chocalate starfish and hearing to cut a foot off and let them have at it ..Anybody ever kept there Harlequin after the nuisance stars were gone ? i really want to keep these guys they are so cool .
 
I did before. You gotta stock up on chocolate chip starfish. I think there was a post before on cutting off legs of the chocolate chips and feeding those, alternating between stars since since legs grew back but I don't remember if the census decided whether that was cruel or not
 
fishyfish22 said:
I did before. You gotta stock up on chocolate chip starfish. I think there was a post before on cutting off legs of the chocolate chips and feeding those, alternating between stars since since legs grew back but I don't remember if the census decided whether that was cruel or not
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thanks FF ,yes sounds cruel but lets just call it circle of life
 
You can come and grab the one out my sump..... I'll even try to grab a few dozen asteria stars that I can find in there.

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carpetreef75 said:
thanks FF ,yes sounds cruel but lets just call it circle of life
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I think they'll also go for tuxedo urchins too. You can always stock up on sand sifting Stars when they're cheap.

I remember chocolate chips used to go on sale for $4 each. Nowadays they're much more.

Liveaquaria actually has has on sale right now funny enough


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Smitty said:
You can come and grab the one out my sump..... I'll even try to grab a few dozen asteria stars that I can find in there.

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that works, thanks Buddy the incredible thing is a few weeks ago i had 100s & 100s and every morning netted 50 off the glass & flushed them and would of never believed these 2 lil harlequin would/could clean up every last one of them ..
 

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fishyfish22 said:
I think they'll also go for tuxedo urchins too. You can always stock up on sand sifting Stars when they're cheap.

I remember chocolate chips used to go on sale for $4 each. Nowadays they're much more.

Liveaquaria actually has has on sale right now funny enough

Thats a awesome price , i believe i paid 3Xs that last weekend , i watched 1 of them last night roll around a nassarius snail and after 20 mins peeled the live snail meat out of the shell and carried it back in the rockwork to munch on



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carpetreef75 said:
that works, thanks Buddy the incredible thing is a few weeks ago i had 100s & 100s and every morning netted 50 off the glass & flushed them and would of never believed these 2 lil harlequin would/could clean up every last one of them ..
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Yeah, they have a huge appetite for such a small creature.

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Smitty said:
Yeah, they have a huge appetite for such a small creature.

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Thanks Smitty , yes HUGE appetite & i haven't had the heart to cut any legs off the chocolates yet i've been trying to keep a good supply in the basement tank and throw a couple dozen in .. never thought i'd ever be buying nuisance asterina stars off Egay :-) lol
 
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