sand dollars?

[chakan]

Im pretty new, so not 100% this is the right forum so dont kill me if its not :eek2:

Im orignally from CA and have alot of cool memories of sanddollars, i was just wondering if it was possible/advisable to keep live sanddollars in a reef tank. and if it was if anyone new the requirements to do such a thing.

Ive never seen anyone with sanddollars in a tank before...living ones anyway and even google turned up very little.

Thanks for any info guys.

 

[Nano Nana]

Not 100% positive but I don't think these would work in a home reef. I have never seen them for sale at a LFS. I think I read that they are fragile and have very specific diets like some of the sea stars.

 

[ophiuroid]

If you set up a species tank for them, it can be done....but then they aren't terribly interesting creatures.

For the tropical one's, the substrate size must be pretty specific - some even need silicious over calcareous substrate. They need a deep sand bed, and burrow into it. So you don't really see them. Most will not survive long in our systems.

 

[cokemanmark]

i was wanting to put some in my reef tank also

 

[romunov]

They probably won't work because: (1) temperature is way too high and (2) you probably don't have a huge tank with a good size deep sand bed.
They need a lot of food that is found only there. And judging by their feeding habits, you can't really target feed them directly.

 

[SuperNerd]

Re: sand dollars?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8417364#post8417364 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chakan
Im pretty new, so not 100% this is the right forum so dont kill me if its not :eek2:

Im orignally from CA...

Where are you located now? Are there no interesting tropical inverts located near you?

 

[chakan]

im located in eastern Oklahoma...dont get much more land locked then that. we have a couple stores but none carry a large supply or selection of inverts. gotta goto 3 stores just to get a few snails for my clean up crew.