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11-02-2007, 01:14 AM
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 Aggressive choc. chip star We have a chocolate chip star, That doesn't go very far... unless I plant a piece of "meat" in his reach. Then he'll move with a breeze With the ease of a trapeze, and suck the life out of it... like a leech. Ode to my sea egg urchin... I didn't even get to enjoy him for 24 hours, as the choc. chip descended upon him covering that spiney shell as if it were cotton, and sucked the insides out, just leaving us an empty shell.  Ode to my Atlantic star fish... We had a little red starfish that we plucked out of the ocean on one of our fluke fishing trips... we gave it a nice home in our FOWLR tank. I saw the choc. chip chasing it around the tank, and even though I fed the choc. chip, the greedy gut caught up with the 4 inch wide sea star, hovered over top of it and dissolved its whole body before the search and rescue team could arrive.  Ode to our Atlantic Haiten anemone.... Well this guy had it coming. He was the cheap $3.50 variety that is not fish compatible, but instead kept stinging our fish and killing them. I had to do something with him to get him out of the reef tank. So he went into the FOWLR tank and in less time than you can say ..."Compatibility considerations for captive care including corals, crustaceans, and other cute critters" ... he made a delicious meal for the choc. chip. Do you have a choc. chip star? What do you keep in the tank with it?
__________________ Be very careful, then, how you live-- not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. (Eph.5:15) Tank Profile: 65 gal.(24" deep)75 lbs. live rock,(tonga and fiji) 2 " sand bed, Fluval303 canister filter, Prism protein skimmer, 3 power heads, thermometers, 30" 2-lamp PC by Sunpaq, w/65WDualActinic (420NM&460NM) & 65W Dual Daylight (6700K & 10,000K), moon lights. Fish, Invert Stock:Scopus tang, 2 clarki, flame dart, 3 PJ cardinals, mandarin, hermits, 2 serpent stars, 3 cleaner shrimp,4 feather dusters, snails. Soft Corals: xenia, colt, Kenya tree, 3 mushroom leathers, chili cactus, Christmas tree, various Corallimorphs, gorgonions, zooanthids. LPS: yellow sun (tube coral), tongue, (plate coral) Another 55 gal FOWLR has Spotted grouper, fuzzy dwarf lion, pencil urchin, choc. ship star.  |
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11-08-2007, 06:44 PM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star 3 chocolate chips, 3 anenomes, crabs, snails, mimic yellow tang, copperband butterfly, foxface rabbitfish, 2 oscellaris clowns, 2 pajama cardinals, lawnmower blenny |
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11-18-2007, 12:57 AM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star I have a choc. chip and he is with a snowflake eel a black longspine a pencil urchin a lion and a lta. I am however missing a lawnmower blenny???? could the chip be the suspect? |
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11-20-2007, 12:52 AM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star it could have been the lion or the snowflake for all we know. We have a serious crime scene here! |
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11-20-2007, 10:49 AM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star Sounds like your star has a serious chip on his shoulder. |
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11-20-2007, 04:02 PM
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11-20-2007, 04:55 PM
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11-21-2007, 03:17 PM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star Ya Id really like to knock it off his shoulder lol caught him trying to mount my longspine last night |
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11-21-2007, 03:23 PM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star Ever think about saving yourselves the aggravation and just taking those buggers in for store credit? |
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11-21-2007, 03:42 PM
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| Re: Aggressive choc. chip star thats the last straw gotta ask my lfs if they will do that |
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