Just a matter of my own curiosity, but for those of you who have starfish, do yours ever sometimes climb up onto the glass and splat their stomach out all over?
My
chocolate chip star seems to do this when it wants me to spot feed it.
Normally I drop in a big chunk of food and it finds it on its own, but on occasion the snails or fish eat it first, and the starfish climbs up onto the front pane of glass and extends its stomach out and it sits there until I give it another piece of food.
The first time I saw it, it disturbed me for about two seconds before I remembered that starfish do extend their stomachs to eat.
Other odd things it does:
When I'm changing water, the starfish will come out, and climb up to the water line, then extend out 'backwards' so only two legs are hanging onto the glass, and its underside is touching the surface of the water.
As the water level decreases, it uses the two legs on the glass to move down with it. Tube feet wiggle above the water line while it does this. If I move the starfish back to the bottom or back so it's underwater completely, it climbs right back up to do this again.
It also will climb up onto the powerhead, and let itself get blasted off by the jet, then climb right back up and do it again. Over and over.
If I didn't know better, I'd say the starfish were PLAYING.
It's also the host for my maroon clownfish, which is terribly odd, but somehow cute to watch. The clown brushes against the starfish like it would an anemone. She's got no interest in the
green hairy mushrooms. She wants the starfish. Thankfully, the starfish doesn't seem to mind, and she doesn't harass it incessantly.
