i cant believe it !

[sadist]

wah lau eh,

just got a Sand Shifter star fish yesterday,

moments after i put it into my tank,

my hermit crabs started charging towards it and nips off the 5 tips of its legs

I thought only Harelquin is interested in dinning star fishes,

how come my orange Hermit also like star fish?

any gurus out there can share some light into this incident?

[Underwater]

yr sand shifting sea star shd be fast enough to burrow into the sand rite as i thought hermit is quite slow? hope yr sea star is fine now.

[sadist]

thats exactly what i thought,

but my star fish bloody bodoh and slow mo,

and my Hermit bloody greedy and fast,

hopefully the star fish grows smarter already,

otherwise day by day its losing bits of itself

sigh ....

[RX_GAN]

bro, did u off the lights ?

next time try doing so...

[sadist]

ah, off the lights before i introduce new stuff into the tank, eh?

thought i read there somewhere.

But its too late now,

20% of my star fish is being nipped off by my 3 Hermit crabs.

Had transferred it.

I might try to re-introduce it into my tank sometime later,

under the "covert" situation,

but rather worried what if the Hermits whack it again.

Should i re-introduce it again or get another bigger Sand Shifter star fish ?

[tineng]

there might not be enough foodstuff for your hermits or you simlpy have too much hermits.....

hermits in the wild hides all the time and only come out at night to feed...its part of their natural instinct....they only comes out in the day if they are REALLY hungry..maybe you should talk out some of the hermits to reduce the population or inrease feeding....

[sadist]

there might not be enough foodstuff for your hermits or you simlpy have too much hermits.....

hermits in the wild hides all the time and only come out at night to feed...its part of their natural instinct....they only comes out in the day if they are REALLY hungry..maybe you should talk out some of the hermits to reduce the population or inrease feeding....

wow, must talk to them ah !

Ok, thanks for the inputs.

[Homer]

[savethe_coralreef]

i also have the same problem with my sand star my blue legged hermit eats it and i have enough food and my tank is 75 gallon and only 1, 4 inch hermit is present what else is causing these problems ?

[sadist]

in that case, maybe the sand star fish is emtting some kind of senses to the crabs,

which is driving them crazy and lust for their flesh.

[flyingclam]

HAa. Almost the same like mine.

Got an orange star. My red hermit nipped off two of the tips

Moved it to the sump.BUt it died.