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02/04/2011, 07:26 PM
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Purple Linkia Starfish eats astrina starfish?
anyone with a purple linkia notice this type of behavior? Anytime my linkia is over a astrina starfish. I see it expel its stomach or guts like its feeding on it. Otherwise it never does this as it moves about in my tank.
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02/04/2011, 07:39 PM
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your purple star isn't a Linckia Nardoa spp. and Leiaster spp. stars have been recorded eating Asterina
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02/04/2011, 08:19 PM
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interesting. Thanks for the info. My starfish looks exactly like that one in the link.
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