Harlequin shrimp eating starfish with Blue Ribbon Eel

[jonspot]

Beautiful tank, how long has the tank been set up at the time this video was made?

[seaweedreefer]

what a extraordinary diverse tank i have to say .

[mca1490]

how do u feed your eel??? , I mean how do u do to avoid the eel to eat ur clownfish?

[locababy2]

NEMO!!! ^^

found him...

[BallisticBrooke]

my older brother and i just bought a 12 gallon nano cube. when we bought our first piece of live rock, it had an asterina star stuck to it, so we bought the harlequin shrimp. we bought the harlequin shrimp was because the guy at our local fish store told us that they ONLY ate asterina stars.but that is only because we bought starfish from him. so my brother was researching them, and he found out that they eat ALL starfish, so we bought a chocolate chip star. and we are going to have him eat tht

[heliman29]

Mine LOVED Chocolate Chip Stars. It was crazy...

Post a video and send me the link... I would love to see your nano!

[dreuxschwartz]

i have that kind of eel. looks so creepy, specially its mouth, but interesting.

[PikolUploader]

BEAUTIFULL tank :D

[alawaiman]

Hey man, Beutiful tank. You don't have any probs with the butterfly coral nibbling? Also, i have caught a pair of harlequins like yours and they were full size so about 15% bigger. But yours are quite big. BTW if you don't beleive me, guess where i live. Hawaii!!

[heliman29]

WOW... seriously, that must be absolutely amazing to not just get the opportunity to see them in their natural habitat but to have the privilege to bring them home and baby them in your own system... soooo cool! Thanks Alawaiman!

[Dechaine249]

you only showed the puffer for a few seconds, and im no expert on saltwater puffers, but that REALLY looks like a green spot puffer, like the kind i have in my brackish tank... I guess since mollys can go fully salt puffers can to...please explain this all to me!

[Ibrake4Geckos]

It is a green spotted puffer, I have two greenspots and a figure 8 in a saltwater 30 gal long thats fish only

[diztorcion666]

once the green spotted is an adult he can live in fully saltwater

[wardog991]

i found nemo!!! :D)))))))))

[mugenskillz3]

lol hermit crab... i like ur eel

[a2ndspeaks24frames]

dude im a marine hobbyist myself but never had the privilege to keep harlequins, juz wondering from my inexperienced point of view: if starfishes can regenerate themselves and harlequins are known to very slowly kill off the starfish, is it possible to swap a healthy starfish and keep the injured/half-eaten starfish in rehab, den swap again when the new one is torn and tattered? juz wondering.

[jab42684]

I read something where people would just keep a seperate tank for starfish and would break off a leg to feed their shrimp

[heliman29]

You know, a child actually brought that very idea up to me on day. I actually attempted to keep one in the sump below but they would drag the starfish so far off I couldn't reach him. Keep in mind they now live in a 250 gallon monster tank. There layer is deep in the rocks. Cool idea though. They are very careful not to kill the star as they consume him over about a 12 day period. What started out cool has now become cruel.

[aznstylexxx]

i cant believe you have a blue ribbon eel! how long have you had it?

[kryten819]

do you have to give these guys starfish or what... i know this is what they eat in the wild. how much were they neways?

[heliman29]

yea, it's a real pain to feed them... about 1 starfish every 3 to 4 weeks.

[iamcam]

this vid makes me want to have a fish tank. how much do you think it would cost to set one like this up?

[nuok123]

My cousin have a salt water tank with all source of exotic rock and fish in there. He said it cost around 3-4 grand to set them up.

[heliman29]

ditto

[DeborahJBuda]

thats a black ribbon eel

[heliman29]

He may look black but in person he's very very blue...

[preety14u]

Your corals are too close...

[maroonclown1]

those shrimp are having a feast on that star fish pretty cool

[ant0328]

That puffer is going to eat the shrimp.

[ant0328]

That puffer is going to eventually eat the shrimp.