Tennyson
Active member
I've had this brown and white striped harlequin serpent starfish for maybe a month. Its probably the best, coming out during the night and sometimes the day. But lately I have been seeing it climbing up maybe 20 inches up steep rocks at night for no apparent reason. Well, last night, I took a look, and that serpent was chomping away at my xenia!!! I don't care for it that much, but the fact that it was eating my coral made me furious!:mad2: I quickly knocked it off and it stumbled down the 20 inch mountain of rocks, I felt like that was enough punishment for its wrongdoing.
The xenia is ok, just a little starshaped teeth marks were made in its flesh
But my question is, why is it going through all this trouble, climbing up so much live rock, just to eat my xenia? And this rock isn't easy to climb up, its bare and almost in a ninety degree angle compared to the sand bed. Could it be hungry?
I haven't fed it lately, so I'm guessing thats why, but why won't it feed off my other soft corals instead of the xenia? I have a toadstool, finger leather, green star polyps a brain coral.
The xenia is ok, just a little starshaped teeth marks were made in its flesh
But my question is, why is it going through all this trouble, climbing up so much live rock, just to eat my xenia? And this rock isn't easy to climb up, its bare and almost in a ninety degree angle compared to the sand bed. Could it be hungry?I haven't fed it lately, so I'm guessing thats why, but why won't it feed off my other soft corals instead of the xenia? I have a toadstool, finger leather, green star polyps a brain coral.
