Starfish feeding?

[brencrazy]

I have been feed the tank shrimp but they haven't eaten any. What are you guys feeding?

 

[SmokeyGnar]

Every 6 weeks or so I'll give mine a small chunk of a brine shrimp cube. I just pick him up when he's on the sand and quickly place it under him and put him back down. He'll sit in place for the rest of the day munching on it. Otherwise he just eats algae that grows on the glass and rocks

 

[Best Fish-Jake]

Use some tweezers and put a piece of krill/ mysis underneath one of its legs.. they'll usually taste it then pull it in by their mouths as long as you're not too forceful... you can do this once/ week if there isn't a whole lot else for them to eat in the tank

 

[brencrazy]

Every 6 weeks or so I'll give mine a small chunk of a brine shrimp cube. I just pick him up when he's on the sand and quickly place it under him and put him back down. He'll sit in place for the rest of the day munching on it. Otherwise he just eats algae that grows on the glass and rocks

Ok thank you

 

[brencrazy]

Use some tweezers and put a piece of krill/ mysis underneath one of its legs.. they'll usually taste it then pull it in by their mouths as long as you're not too forceful... you can do this once/ week if there isn't a whole lot else for them to eat in the tank

I tried and that didn't work

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Do you know the name of that sea star?

 

[brencrazy]

Do you know the name of that sea star?

Ochre starfish.
They are coldwater

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It appears it's predatory on slow snails like chitons and limpets and bivalves. Shrimp are not in its diet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisaster_ochraceus

 

[brencrazy]

It appears it's predatory on slow snails like chitons and limpets and bivalves. Shrimp are not in its diet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisaster_ochraceus

Thank you that's why it stripped all my mussels off the rockwall

 

[brencrazy]

It appears it's predatory on slow snails like chitons and limpets and bivalves. Shrimp are not in its diet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisaster_ochraceus

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thank you that's why it stripped all my mussels off the rockwall

How cool!