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Good question.
First off, they need supplemental feedings more frequently than weekly but to the main point...have you tried feeding after lights out? Also, the fish's olfactory reception is likely much faster than that of the starfish and regardless they can move to the food and eat it much more quickly. I would recommend an isolation box for supplemental feedings if you are really serious about keeping him healthy and protecting the food from other inhabitants.
This is very very very interesting to me. For whatever reason, I've had multiple mini scolies die, recede, one even had chunks of it's flesh eaten in one night and I've never figured out why. I have a fromia milleporella, but maybe it is the same... My starfish just passed 6 months of being in my tank. Not a monumental time, but guess it is eating something. I've had four mini scolies bite it in that time frame, no other losses in a very packed tank.
I had responded to your post about which mini scolies to get, so sad to hear those went downhill. Really has me thinking of placing my last remaining scoly in a mushroom cage.
Wow that's amazing that you had the same experience with the same starfish genus and coral! Maybe this could be a useful clue into their diet...analyzing the biofilm on a Scoly would be simpler than ocean substrate since corals maintain their microbiome (although it can shift to some degree)
No, i got to them quickly enough and they're doing just fine recovering...fully extended tentacles for feeding at night and I've been spot feeding. All except for the one i got for free which was already injured...it hasn't died yet though. The green and purple scoly is actually doing great! No starfish attacks on it.
Good to hear. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why some died. I had one of them for 8 months prior to the starfish addition. I didn't correlate them since I never saw the starfish on this particular mini scoly, but had two go down before that one. I do see the starfish on them since they are on the low rock area and starfish seem to cling to those structures the most.
They probably fed on them at night as well
I was asking about target feeding based on this response? Feeding them in an isolation box?
