Will harlequin shrimp eat serpent and bristle stars?

[lulu1228]

I'm getting a harlequin shrimp and I want to know if I need to worry about my bristle stars in my sponges and my sea fans?

 

[Tired]

I'm not sure if they'll go after micro brittles. Not many tube feet on those, but they do have some.

 

[Stomatopods17]

No.

They only go for tubed starfish (and very rarely urchins but I have yet to see it happen in person. I kept urchins with mine).

Brittles can very easily get away from them too, tubed starfish get flipped and pinned down. They *might* show a feeding response via smell but realistically they couldn't disable them for their very long slow feeding periods.

 

[Tired]

Ah, yeah, being able to keep it from getting away would be a problem. Though I'd kinda like to see one try to handle a brittle starfish. It'd probably be very confused.