Harlequin shrimp eating starfish with Blue Ribbon Eel

Video of my Harlequin shrimp eating starfish a starfish as my Blue Ribbon eel pokes his head around. Canker also makes an appearance, my Coral Banded Shrimp which has had a huge cyst on head his whole life... it makes him live forever!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Saltwater
• reef
• Harlequin
• shrimp
• eating
• Chocolate
• Chip
• Starfish
• Blue
• Ribbon
• Eel
• fishtank

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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...

[dreuxschwartz]

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

[PikolUploader]

BEAUTIFULL tank :D