What's wrong with my sixline?

Serpent stars, have a reputation of eating or attacking sleeping fish. A sixline can sleep in the sand and in a cocoon, which makes him very valunerable.

Good idea on the star Dingo.;D

 

Yes, two; a serpent star and a blue linckia. I was thinking *maybe* the serpent could have done this... are you thinking that it removed some scales? It's very hard to tell if there are missing scales or tissue damage... the fish just moves so fast it's hard to get a good look.

I'm aware that they sleep in their cocoon at night, but find it difficult to believe that a serpent star could cause this much damge... if so, there must have been a struggle, but the sixline came out victorious!

 

I think that might be possible. If the fish is right there, seems likely that the serpent would go for it.

 

Serpent stars (and brittle stars for that matter) are known fish eaters once they get large. And yes, this happens at night.

You might want to think about removing it.

 

actually, if it ate the sixline, I wouldn't be all too sad about it since the sixline picks on my mandarin constantly... :-/

The serpent is not that big, though... maybe 8-9" from tip to tip... I wouldn't remove it unless I knew for sure, and I don't think this is enough evidence that it's even what caused this...

 

There have been a couple post of late one about a copper band that was attacked by a serpent, it had reddend areas and abrasions, unfortunatly it died and I believe there is another recent thread as well.

Green serpents seem to be the most trouble some and mine did attack my fish, so no more serpent stars for me.

Trouble is once they figure out that fish are easy to catch they repeat the behavior.

Good Luck.

 

I have heard this about green brittle stars like these:



but not the serpent stars like these:



The latter of the two is what I have...