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Unread 12/12/2006, 07:24 PM   #1
mwwhite
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Peppermint Shrimp & Red Serpent Star

Our peppermint is helping himself to the legs of the newly added red serpent star!!!

What the heck is he doing that for? We researched and there is nothing we could find that said the peppermint would snack on stars!

Do we need to seperate these two?


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Unread 12/12/2006, 08:35 PM   #2
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Oh, sigh, reef-safe is a relative concept.

The starfish might be near death, which can set off scavenging signals. The fact that the peppermint can attack it that way is a bad sign. You could try putting the shrimp or the star in some sort of breeder box.


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Unread 12/12/2006, 08:55 PM   #3
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he may be of poor health because my brittle star eats my camel shrimp when i forget to feed him.


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Unread 12/13/2006, 06:32 PM   #4
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yeah thow him in a breder box for a while then let him back out in 2-3 days maybe he will learn to behave


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