Crinoid questions

[menzies2901]

I have been sucessful in keeping a crinoid for the past month and it is doing fine until today when i noticed my elegance coral had one of crinoid arms wrapped up in the elegance. I removed the crinoid only to break the arms in half, my questions are
1. Do elegance coral eat crinoids
2. does the crinoid arm grow back

 

[CaptiveReef]

Crinoids

Crinoids

They are graceful filter feeders, plankton , microscopic marine life. Elegance is aggressive, and will sting other corals or other marine life that get to close.
Dose with a good plankton feed at least 3 times a week. Yes they can regenerate their arms, and they will lose limbs if they are subjected to poor water quality.
Hope this helps.

CaptiveReef

 

[GreshamH]

Basket stars aka crinoids, sting corals? You sure about that one? I've watched them cruz over reef heads with no damage to anytihng.

 

[bsaastad]

Is it even possible to provide enough food for a crinoid w/o fouling your tank? I mean, don't they basically spend the whole night feeding? I tried one once (newbie move, took bad advice from lfs) without success. I painstakingly target fed it every evening after lights out with various filter-feeding foods but it eventually starved about 6 months along, gradually dropping arms until it just sort of faded away ...

 

[Angel*Fish]

The elegance possibly just caught an arm that fell off. it is typical for these to appear to do well for a month or longer, but they almost always starve to death & gradually begin to lose arms until the animal is deadm as said by bsaastad

Sorry to say it, but you now know that you can't trust your LFS - whether it is to be honest/ethical or knowledgeable, I couldn't say -- but it is widely known that these creature don't survive in our tanks

There are increasingly new foods out that weren't previously available, so maybe this is going to be changing