aggressive fish and starfish

[deejeff442]

will non-reef safe eat starfish and urchins?
like puffers,wrasses,filefish.i have a fowlr going and dont know if these fish will just eat the shrimp,snails and crabs and not touch the starfish and pincushin urchins?

 

[halamaya]

I have a blue spotted puffer, and a Trigger fish. I have 2 brittle stars and 1 serpent, a chocolate chip, and a pillow starfish. I feed them all well so they don't seek out my starfish. I think I got lucky though, I had to move the yellow brittle out of my reef tank because he was eatting my shrimp and fish. He made it so I added more one at a time. My red serpent star was last and took a while top figure out how to hide well. So the end of his arms got nipped on a bit but thats about it. My puffer doesn't get very large though. We'll see as my Trigger gets bigger.

 

[richard kagen]

The puffer nips at the chocolate chip stars but they don't seem any worse for wear

 

[rcreations]

Yes they do. My stars and stripes puffer snacked on a chocolate chip star and a queen angel ate a pincushion urchin, literally pulled out all its needles.

 

[aquaknight]

+3, I think, for a dogface snacking on a choc chip star....

 

[garick]

stars can eat fish to. I used to have 2 brittle's that would actually catch and eat fish. I saw one of them latch onto a dwarf lion and hork its skin off trying to pull it down to its mouth/stomach.

 

[deejeff442]

well guess no inverts at all.i reall have a nice list of fish for the tank and wanted something to crawl around.

 

[hammerhed7]

indeed some of the large stars can be nasty, but they are no match for triggers, puffers and the like. Urchins are a favorite snack of triggers. I have a choc chip and a brittle and had a red general for a couple of years in my aggressive tank, but I dont have aggressive triggers or puffers. i do have a blue jaw trigger, and recently lost my 8" aussie tusk neither of them bothered the stars.