The story about her ...

[Petar]

Someone will say " they are so difficult, it's better to leave it in a wild", others will " they are so easy to hold", more or less they are right.
The most beautifully starfish Blue Linkia .....
This is the story about mine linkia leavigata.
I just started with a hobby and I never imagine that I will have so many good and bad moments.
I have setup a tank in December and after few months I have added Linkia to my sytem, because I thought that it is easy to handle and it is so nice and adorable to watch. But, than I have read and read , more and more and I have figured that many people had a problem with this kind of starfish.I was very upset and i can't let her to die because of my fault , because i was not informed what i am buying and what i am doing. I didn't have a well established sytem , even worse it was completely new system 400 litres with 20 kg of live rock. I was in shock after reading many failures and still after 9 months I can't beleive that she is alive. Every day and night mine Linkia was always in surface with few tentacles out of the water, i was so confused and worried for her, because I knew that she is hungry or she is just a searching for something. I didn't adapt her with drip acclimatization, i have many times take her with my hand, move her from one place to another, play with her...
After some time I have found a Mr. Sch. Claude from Fauna Marin company and he has helped me a lot about my problem with blue starfish. I got products Ultra Bio and Ultra bak as well Ultramin S and start to dosing it. After that mine linkia never goes up on the surface and I was very happy for her.

Meanwhile, I have noticed that mine starfish is going to falling apart, tissue is going off and you can clearly see a some kind of white cells under her blue skin or what ever it is. Everyone tought that she will die soon and I beleive it too. But, after some time starfish refresh her tissue and close wholes in the body which was a big supprise to me. Today she is still alive and I like her a lot, she is my favorite one.

At this picture you can see a wholes in body ( before this picture they were much bigger ):





Let's say hello to her:



I am sorry for not a good qualitty of pictures, and I would like to use this opportunity to say big THANKS for Claude and his efforts to help me in my success story.

Best regards,
Petar
Belgrade
Serbia

 

[PSam]

:thumbsup:

 

[greenbean36191]

Petar,
<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

I can't see the damage in the picture, but if the star was able to recover from damage that's certainly a good sign. Unfortunately, you're not out of the woods yet if the tank has only been running since December. You won't know until about this time next year if the star is likely to make it long term since they can take up to 18 months to finally starve to death.

 

[Stenopus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13194373#post13194373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by greenbean36191
Petar,
<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

I can't see the damage in the picture, but if the star was able to recover from damage that's certainly a good sign. Unfortunately, you're not out of the woods yet if the tank has only been running since December. You won't know until about this time next year if the star is likely to make it long term since they can take up to 18 months to finally starve to death.

Hi greenbean ,

If you take a closer look on first picture you can clearly see a few white spots - wholes betweeen two tentacles. I have this problem also and I have started to use Ultra Bio and Ultra Min to create a good bacterial food source.

 

[Packersfan21]

I always wondered if linkia stars would eat seaweed salad, because whenever I feed it to my tang, the snails also eat it. I had 2 purple loinkias a long time ago but the stupid peppermint shrimp killed them.

 

[Petar]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13194373#post13194373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by greenbean36191
Petar,
<img src="/images/welcome.gif" width="500" height="62"><br><b><i><big><big>To Reef Central</b></i></big></big>

I can't see the damage in the picture, but if the star was able to recover from damage that's certainly a good sign. Unfortunately, you're not out of the woods yet if the tank has only been running since December. You won't know until about this time next year if the star is likely to make it long term since they can take up to 18 months to finally starve to death.

Hi greenbean, thx for warm welcome and nice to meet you. I hope so that my starfish would be ok after 18 months. I will give updates about this story soon.