StarFish

Hey I have a 55 gal, would a chocolate chip star fish get along with a sand sifting starfish?

 

Chocolate chips starts are not reef safe, they are coral eaters. While I have never kept those two types of star fish in the same system I would be hesitant to do so.

Hopefully someone that has kept them together will chime in.

Welcome to 3reef Ben.

 

ok thanks for your input!

 

You're welcome.

Liveaquaria states that Chocolate Chips will eat other starfish. See link below.

Saltwater Aquarium Inverts for Marine Reef Aquariums: Chocolate Chip Sea Star, Protoreaster sp.

 

+1

Also, the sand-sifting star preys on sandbed infauna and usually starves once the population has been depleted. Very few have been known to actually scavenge, or survive for more than a few months.

 

My sand sifter is years old, but that's probably because I'm a slob and my sand bed is a little grotty.

LoL

I do however feed "twinkle" on a weekly basis.

 

At first I was so confused. Then I am like ahhhh I got it.:

And what are you feeding your little wish maker?

 

I've got a few sand sifters I've had since I started my first tank years ago. Maybe I'm lucky and they scavenge. I also have a scooter and mandarin goby that eats pellets so anythings possible. Lol. Id stay away from choclate chips personally.

 

What kind of pellets do you feed the scooter blenny?

 

New life spectrum, ON formula 1&2. They also like PE mysis as well.