Harlequin Shrimp questions

[GeoHawk]

So I just moved my harlequin to my sump from display, because it had finished off the asterinas. Can I leave it in a very rocky sump, or would it be better to move it to my frag tank? I bought a chocolate chip star that it is feeding on. How often do I need to feed this guy now? I was thinking of keeping it for when the asterina population builds up, but if its too expensive I may need to sell him off.

Any help would be great.

Edited: Original post was very wordy

 

[GeoHawk]

Rephrased question, any help would be appreciated.

 

[Eienna]

Rephrased question, any help would be appreciated.

I think you can find frozen stars but I've never seen them. Not sure how often they need to eat.

 

[o2manyfish]

They feed constantly. A big star should last them awhile maybe 3-4 weeks.

 

[TallShow]

I fed my Harlequin one Chocolate Chip Starfish leg a week. Sometimes it lasted for two weeks.

It's not expensive to feed them. It's basically one starfish a month, maybe a month and a half.

 

[GeoHawk]

I fed my Harlequin one Chocolate Chip Starfish leg a week. Sometimes it lasted for two weeks.

It's not expensive to feed them. It's basically one starfish a month, maybe a month and a half.

Does the Chocolate chip star live after having the leg cut off? Why not throw him in all at once? Doesn't live as long?

Would it be better to keep the harlequin in my sump or put him in the frag tank where I can see him, or does it even matter?

 

[flowflezy]

I would feed mine when he came out for a while. I also bought sand sifter instead choc aren't fish safe. I have multiple tanks hooked up so I keep a starfish in other tank and cut of arms to feed my shrimp. I tryed keeping in same sump as tank and he wouldn't eat the leg, I think bc he could smell the one in the sump so he didn't want no stinking leg...

 

[GeoHawk]

Anybody ever try this How to Feed a Harlequin Shrimp » Reef'd Up Aquatics ?

Seems like it could be a bad life for a starfish, but I read that they can grow back legs and you can buy three and cycle through and not have to buy anymore.

 

[flowflezy]

Thats. What I do and they do grow legs back just like. A lizards tail

 

[GeoHawk]

So I could move my harlequin to my frag tank until the asterina population comes back and buy a couple chocolate chipe stars and rotate them cutting legs off?
This way I wont have to buy a new harlequin later and my linkia can be in display.

 

[flowflezy]

Yeah just be careful about chocolate star fish will eat fish or can just letting you know. And sand sifter cleans sand so its a plus and cheaper.

 

[Ozzy]

Chocolates star fish will eat corals, never really heard of them eating fish though. But cycling them works pretty well, from my experience. I ended up selling my harlequins just because I didn't feel like cutting up starfish every couple weeks lol.

 

[GeoHawk]

Chocolates star fish will eat corals, never really heard of them eating fish though. But cycling them works pretty well, from my experience. I ended up selling my harlequins just because I didn't feel like cutting up starfish every couple weeks lol.

Yeah I was having a hard time just feeding the poor guy to the shrimp. I kept reminding myself that this is only natural. I haven't cut a leg off, but I imagine that is pretty hard to do as well. May cause me to have to sell the guy to someone else, he sure is fun to watch though.