Crazy brittle star

[azrile]

It's crazy the way animals never seem to act the way they are 'supposed' to.
Everything I read said that brittle stars would hide in cracks in the LR, and you would only see tentacles for most of the day.
Mine climbs the tallest rock ( the one with about 20 mini feather dusters) and balances on the top of it, with its arms stretched out wide. I know it is feeding, but it does this all day long. It is also the spot where my filter dumps in, so not likely it is getting much food there. I recently installed a small powerhead, just to increase the circulation at other spots, in hopes that he would sit on a different piece of rock... didn't work. I also reward it when it does go to the bottom of the tank by dropping shrimp pellets near it. It gobbles these things up, but still quickly moves to the toprock and does a spread eagle.
Also, are green brittle stars almost grey in color? When I bought this one at the LFS, it looked greyish black, but now it is looking a dull dark green. (I don't want a green brittle).
Any help with it's behavior 'problem'?

 

[anthony812]

dont worry man my clown use to be retarde and accepted a power head and now he finally liked the anemone never left it since

 

[wrassecal]

My red brittle star hangs out on a ledge and is in full view all day. I'm kind of glad we can always see him. I used to have a green, it was definately green in color with yellow spikey thing all over the legs but it went carpet diving. My red had climbed up the glass to the powerhead before so you might want to keep an eye on yours since it seems to like being high up. HTH
Anthony - I'm glad your clown finally gave up on the ph and took to the anenome

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

your brittle was most likely hand fed at the store - they are kinda like funcky puppies - check it out - you can ahdn feed it and it'll climb onto your hand.
I went to a pet store in Phoenix and the guy showed me this with his star fish. I have since trained my Green one to eat from my hand - after my cleaner shrimp is done with me.

 

[azrile]

crawl on my hand??? YUCK!!! shrimp are cute, i wouldn't mind that, but a brittle star reminds me too much of a hairy spider...
I'm still confused about the green color though. Mine is a very pasty grey-green, kinda like something you would see in camauflauge. I'm hoping these are not the ones that eat stuff.

 

[anthony812]

lolz thanks rassecal anyways donty worry about your animals i use to be so mad but now i jsut let it be and naturally they'll do waht is in their instinct