Diet Of A Fancy Yellow Brittle Sea Star

[FishGeek]

I was told by a guy at my LFS that Brittle Stars will eat snails. I cant find anything saying this and I wanted to ask on here. Will they??? I am only finding that they eat zooplankton, very finely chopped meaty items, and liquid invertebrate foods. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[wayne]

I don't think so. I dn'tthink they will eat much zooplankton, and liquid invert foods ...??? Debris feeders, meaty items on the substrate

 

[S.Reef]

yeah...no snails, sounds strange.

 

[FishGeek]

Thanks I thought so. Do large (by large I mean fully grown Brittles) cause any harm to corals usually???

 

[1979camaro]

most likely no...it is possible that loose frags could be knocked over by a star though

 

[wayne]

No, but real monsters will eat fish ...

 

[RockingCricket]

I've found that my large (12"-14") green brittle star is rather partial to a couple of spirulina wafers everyday. No matter where in my tank I drop them, he is soon able to "sniff" them out. It's often a race for the fish to eat as much of the wafers as they can, before the brittlestar comes literally running over to devour it. Amazing to watch.

 

[FishGeek]

Thanks Everyone!