feeding linkia's

[zonco]

have had a orange linkia since august and it was doing well untill lately its started to starve , just doesn't look well. Do any of u guys have one and if so what do u think it eats.

 

[mystikdragon7]

Sorry to say that it is still a mystery on what linkias eat. You can try target them with meaty or algae foods but I don't think that will work. How much LR do you have in your 120?

Also did you have any water parameter swings lately?

 

[zonco]

my alk and calcium go up and down every once in a will thats its, I think I have around 100 pounds of rock.

 

[Avi]

There's a lot of controversy about keeping Linkias. The common wisdom seems to be that we can only speculate about what, specifically, it is that they eat. Some say that becuase of that, it's unlikely that anyone would be successful keeping then over the long term. I have three and have had the orange one the longest of the three...well over a year. The purple one's been a good long time, too. The blue one is in my reef for about four months or so. The orange one has grown significantly and had gotten one of its "arms" caught in a power head so I had to cut more about an inch off of it with a razor blade...It's fully grown back now. So, I say this because I believe that it's a clear sign that they are being nourished. I can't say specifically what it is that they do eat because I never see them take a particular food that I put in the tank. But, I think that if you have a lot of live rock in your reef and the tank is well aged....say, at least two years...it should get what it needs.