ozadars
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Hi there,
I bought a starfish a week ago. I believe its Pentaceraster sp. This is a carnivore starfish like chocolate chip and it has knobs on too. Anyways, I feed it with dead fish when it was on the glass. After sometime it covered the fish with something. It looks like this white curly strings that mushrooms take out when they are stressed. Few hours later he took this thing back and stopped eating. I think it uses these curly strings to digest its food outside of its body but this is just a guess. Anybody has any ideas?
I was wondering if this behaviour is specific to this species or do chocolate chip starfish or other carnivore starfish do the same thing. I had another carnivore starfish before, a mediterranean species, but i dont remember it doing something like that.
Btw, yesterday and today i saw it doing the same thing while it was on the glass but there was nothing to eat on the glass. He was just standing still on the glass with its curly strings covered the glass.
I bought a starfish a week ago. I believe its Pentaceraster sp. This is a carnivore starfish like chocolate chip and it has knobs on too. Anyways, I feed it with dead fish when it was on the glass. After sometime it covered the fish with something. It looks like this white curly strings that mushrooms take out when they are stressed. Few hours later he took this thing back and stopped eating. I think it uses these curly strings to digest its food outside of its body but this is just a guess. Anybody has any ideas?
I was wondering if this behaviour is specific to this species or do chocolate chip starfish or other carnivore starfish do the same thing. I had another carnivore starfish before, a mediterranean species, but i dont remember it doing something like that.
Btw, yesterday and today i saw it doing the same thing while it was on the glass but there was nothing to eat on the glass. He was just standing still on the glass with its curly strings covered the glass.
