Help, Trachyphyllia ate brittle star!

[mihkaail]

Hi guys,

I left this morning for uni with both my black half-brittle stars (LFS guy gave them to me to see if they'll regenerate) rolling around on the sand. I had study group tonight so i only got back almost 9.

To my disgust, my green Trachy has some black mush in it's mouth and it's feeding tentacles are about 2/3 protracted. What do i do? Is it normal?

 

[dragon79]

You are in a subject that I am not too familiar with, I know it's been sometime since you have posted, but what happened? Did it die? If LFS gave um to you, he/she probably knew it wasn't going to live long and when something is dying, there isn't much you can do. brittle stars in general are hard to care for when already damaged or dying.

 

[mihkaail]

Hi, thanks for the reply

The other brittle star in similar shape to the first is doing great, slowly regenerating arms. The LFS gave them to me as an experiment to try.
The trachy ate it and spat the remainder out (just a pale brown shell like exoskeleton.

 

[dragon79]

only thing I could think is feed your open brain more more during the time of your brittle star is regenerating, apparently it saw it as a tasty morsal, and took advantage. Cyclopeeze should do the trick, at least I know that's what Rbaby does. The red/pink series brain looks real nice too.

If the brittle star is too dumb and just winding up on it's mouth all the time....you may want ot create a protective net or something where, the brain can still feed, but keep it from eating your brittle star.