New Tile Star!

[LJA]

New addition!

Been in the tank cruising around for 48 hours.

Any tips for supplemental feeding? Try to hand feed? Place food nearby?

Mysis okay?

Any other foods seem to work well?

 

[Calappidae]

Will starve.

Unless your tank is around 2 years old and over 125 gallons. Fromia sp. have very specialized diets being invisible film only present in well established aquariums with liverock.. and a large supply at that.

 

[LJA]

Will starve.

Unless your tank is around 2 years old and over 125 gallons. Fromia sp. have very specialized diets being invisible film only present in well established aquariums with liverock.. and a large supply at that.

What about the reports of this thread?

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1745175

I would like more information on how to attempt supplemental feeding.

 

[Calappidae]

Linkcia isn't fromia, but I have yet to actually try the asterina diet (which seems pretty reliable according to many people's reports)

However a large supply of asterina starfish would be needed to feed the animal along with the film algea due to their constant eating habits. Then there is the risk of asterina overpopulating your tank in the process and of course the asterina removal taking out the fromia as well.

It's worth a try but I don't think it'll work out.

If you wish to atempt it, you'll jsut have to find a friend or somebody at a lfs with a huge asterina problem, have them breeding in your sump, his tank, and yours, and you may be good. Thankfully they do overpopulate on their own.

Also I don't see any *long term* success reports in that thread either. 2 years is pretty good though.

 

[LJA]

Okay, thanks for the info.

I'm going to keep trying some different types of food too. So far no luck with Rodger's reef food.

 

[Brinkfish312]

That's a beautiful star though!

 

[LJA]

That's a beautiful star though!

Yes, definitely a cool star.

 

[Whiterabbitrage]

I make a slurry with dry filter food and tank water, then use a pipette to target blast it into rocky surfaces and crevices. I figure that grows a biofilm. Got my Fromia two years ago. It was skinny and starving from being in LFS tank for six months. My tank was only a few months old at the time, but he fattened right up using this approach. When the tank was new, I treated the rocks every three days. These days I don't bother since the tank is mature.

 

[LJA]

I make a slurry with dry filter food and tank water, then use a pipette to target blast it into rocky surfaces and crevices. I figure that grows a biofilm. Got my Fromia two years ago. It was skinny and starving from being in LFS tank for six months. My tank was only a few months old at the time, but he fattened right up using this approach. When the tank was new, I treated the rocks every three days. These days I don't bother since the tank is mature.

That's a very interesting approach. Would something like cyclopeeze work?

 

[Calappidae]

I make a slurry with dry filter food and tank water, then use a pipette to target blast it into rocky surfaces and crevices. I figure that grows a biofilm. Got my Fromia two years ago. It was skinny and starving from being in LFS tank for six months. My tank was only a few months old at the time, but he fattened right up using this approach. When the tank was new, I treated the rocks every three days. These days I don't bother since the tank is mature.

Do you ever get a diatom break out from this? Really tempted to try this now.

 

[LJA]

How long did you leave your circulation off to allow it to settle into the rocks? How many times a week did you do it?