Carpet VS. Starfish....WOW

[mborkush]

So here is a question, Is it ok for my carpet to eat a gray, sand sifting star? The star wandered a little to close and the carpet grabbed it. Is it ok? My fear is the star will still be alive in the carpets stomach and tear it up. Any one have any history of this? :sad2:

 

[nikon187]

I'm sure the stinging cells of the carpet killed the star before it was digested. They eat things that get to close, its what they do.

 

[mborkush]

Last night at 9:30pm when I went to bed, it was still trying to eat it.
This morning, looked like the carpet won. No star left langing out. All gone. Carpet looks good today. Opening back up. Probly wont have to feed it for a month now!

 

[Drone]

How big was the carpet and how big was the sand sifter?

Kevin

 

[deangelr]

pics?

 

[velvetelvis]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of carpet is it?

And yeah--pics!

 

[Drone]

3rd on the pics!!!

 

[piscivorous]

4th on pics!!!

 

[Reefer.]

5th on pics!!lol

 

[Toddrtrex]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of carpet is it?

And yeah--pics!

This is an educated guess on my part.

I am going to say that the "carpet" is a Haddoni, since they are sand dwellers, and a sand sifting star stays in the sandbed -- most of the time, until they eat the sand bed clean and have to travel out of it in an attempt to find food.

 

[mborkush]

It seems to be doing well. These are the best pics. we could get, it happened soo fast. The star disappeared before we knew it.

 

[mborkush]

I believe this pic. was the day before

 

[mborkush]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of carpet is it?

And yeah--pics!

My understanding is the carpet is a Haddoni.

 

[mborkush]

How big was the carpet and how big was the sand sifter?

Kevin

Its had to tell in the last pic, but the carpet is about 10" across and the star is........well, was a good 5" or so.

 

[twiggyb]

I believe this pic. was the day before

It looks like your clown is yelling "NO PICTURES!" :lolspin:

 

[Toddrtrex]

My understanding is the carpet is a Haddoni.

Your understanding is correct.

 

[DeathWish302]

That is absolutely wild!

 

[majikmike9999]

yeah, i have a red one and my linkia star fell in the other day, it was rough. last week i also noticed i was missing my blue hippo and a couple chromis, not sure if it was the carpet or not as it seems to be a lot of coincidence they all went missing last week

 

[Flightpipe]

I was laughing at your situation last night thing wow thats nuts...............From now on I am keeping my mouth shut my large haddoi just began expelling what is left of my blue linkia that i thought was in the rock HE AT IT UGH! I had that star for over a year!

 

[ezhoops]

I wouldnt wait a month to feed it again, I wouldn't think there is much nutrition to a starfish, IMO