I have a mated pair of harlequin shrimp, I am running low on asterina so to we'd them I have been chopped a leg of a sandsifter star which I keep in the sump! I was just curious as to how long it will take to grow back its looking good will the skin develop over the stump? And when can I cut another leg to feed the harlequins?
Starfish legs
- Thread starter Lorna g
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Calappidae
Harlequin Shrimp
You would need several starfish to preform this and sandsifters will starve due to their dietary needs let alone handle being rotated.
Calappidae
Harlequin Shrimp
I have no experience in sand sifters myself, but from reading other threads it is recommended to not even purchase them as they will starve even in the largest systems.
Not to mention you need multiple sand sifters.
Whiterabbitrage
New member
Why not just get a couple of starfish for the main tank? I've read that harlequins eat the tube feet from the tips towards the body, so the starfish stays alive longer.
Calappidae
Harlequin Shrimp
Starfish are able to regenerate lost limbs over a short period of time. To save a dollar people will cut a leg off, give that to the shrimp, cut a leg off a different starfish and repeat the process while the first one's leg is growing back. If it can be done on a single sand sifter is what's being asked. IMO very brutual.. I buy live starfish and freeze them for mine.
MikeandNicole
New member
I have had linkia and serpent stars re-grow a leg.
It takes months.
It takes months.
