Coral Beauty Heartbreak

[doctor_random]

Two days ago I reintroduced my Coral Beauty to my DT after a 5 week hyposaline ick quarantine. What a lot of work!

She was doing great, eating, active, ick licked, but still a bit shy and took up hiding under "sea star ledge" where my rather large fancy brittle and red serpents live...

I don't have a tank where critters can jump out or get sucked into a drain, so I think the stars got her!!!! Not a bone left...:Yikes:

Geesh, I'm not sure my kids are going to believe me when I continue to tell them there are no such things as trolls living under the bridge.:eat:

I'm fairly new to this hobby, but this is pretty discouraging. Happen to anyone out there?

Maybe I SHOULD just get a dog...:banghead:

 

[Domboski]

Are there places for the CB to hide? Mine spends most of its time hiding and especially when first introduced. I almost never see mine except when it comes out to eat, which sometimes it does not.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Coral beauties are very prone to ich in new systems...I made the same mistake...and I also feel that my attempts at quarantine made them worse. I think that newbies starting out with new systems should stick to only the hardiest (and least expensive!) fish in at least the first year of their set-up....damsels, some clowns, maybe a gramma....I never would have survived the first year of this hobby without them. Once you have an established, healthy tank, fish like dwarf angels are much easier to keep, and ich virtually disappears...

 

[meschaefer]

What color brittle stars do you have. The green ones have been known to take a fish when they can get at it.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

For safety shake or just peace of I mind, I will remove the star fish for you next time there.

All stars over there has been living with way smaller fish for years including chromis, clown gobies, and firefish. That's so sad they turn to possible killers when they change environment.

 

[danelam]

wow! I never knew a starfish could eat a fish! Aren't they too slow? Even if the fish is asleep, surely they would have time to get away, right?

Gee, you learn something new every day. I'll never look at stars in the same way again!

 

[Reefsaint]

I hear star fish are destroying a whole Coral reef the only thing left is fish!

 

[meschaefer]

I hear star fish are destroying a whole Coral reef the only thing left is fish!

Crown of Thorns

 

[Reefsaint]

You see!!

Crown of Thorns