Starfish

rburch203

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The wife's main request with my aquarium is I get a star fish. What's the best one for a reef safe aquarium. So I can make her happy lol
 
depends on how large the tank is. a generic sea star like the linckia star is difficult to care for and does not usually survive in aquariums. otherwise brittle and serphent stars are good options.
 
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The good news is serpent and brittle stars do quite well if they have places to hide. :hmm2:

The bad news is the really like to hide! Especially during the day. I have 2 really beautiful stars in each of 3 tanks and I see them only on rare occasions when I feed. Otherwise they tend to stay under rocks.:fun2:
 
I've got literally dozens of brittle stars and have never seen their full body, only legs when I feed the tank sticking out of holes in the LR.
 
If you teach a serpent star to come and eat from chopsticks or tweezers, you can lure it out at feeding time with a big hunk of meaty food like shrimp or fish. Kinda fun to watch one wrap around the food like a freakish little alien thing.
 
guys,
Need one help

i got 2 linkia in my tank, One blue and one orange.
My LFS gave my one dark olive green powder to dose and he says it is for all invertebrates including starfish,anemones etc.

It is a dark olive green power in a small plastic bag. He gave me following instructions to feed them

1. Take 1 glass of salt or RO water and add 2gm of that powder to glass and mix well.
2. Do target feeding through injection on each star and on every invertebrates and in entire aquarium and stop the water movement for 15-20 minutes.
3.repeat after every week.

can anyone please let me know what the product is it.

Thanks in advance.
 
That won't work. Linkias eat bio-film and possibly sponges, they don't filter-feed. Whatever product you've been given may work for corals and possibly some filter-feeding invertebrates, but not all- quite a few filter-feeders require food of a specific particle size and can't eat anything that isn't exactly right.
You may have been given some sort of dried phytoplankton, but honestly, your LFS guy is either badly misinformed or outright lying in order to sell you something. Anemones are best fed large chunks of meaty foods like shrimp and fish, which mimics their natural diet of whatever they can catch, and I don't think anybody's figured out a prepared food for linkias.
 
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