Looks good
I heard about people having a taste for skimmate, but never thought the stories were true. :eek2:
What type of feeding are you doing to keep it alive?
I had a green one long ago when a LFS convinced me that they had kept several of them long term in tanks that were maintained by the store without any special care. BS. I hope it goes well for you Bradley, but my experience was arms falling off one by one starting after about a month. Took about 3 mo for it to slowly starve to death. This is one of those animals that shouldn't even be sold and makes the hobby look bad.
That is a shame that the LFS actually requested this animalReally just looking to make a buck<img src="http://www.reefcentral.com/images/chimp_shaking_head.gif"/>
I had a green one long ago when a LFS convinced me that they had kept several of them long term in tanks that were maintained by the store without any special care. BS. I hope it goes well for you Bradley, but my experience was arms falling off one by one starting after about a month. Took about 3 mo for it to slowly starve to death. This is one of those animals that shouldn't even be sold and makes the hobby look bad.
That is a shame that the LFS actually requested this animalReally just looking to make a buck<img src="http://www.reefcentral.com/images/chimp_shaking_head.gif"/>
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I've seen crinoids at a certain LFS on multiple occasions. I'm boycotting the place on principle. If an advanced customer has a tank setup for non-photosynthetics than special order them one. Keeping a creature you know your store's systems can't even support just because it looks cool and brings in customers is irresponsible.
Its one thing if you actually have a plan to keep the creature alive long-term or if you're an advanced hobbyist and have a realistic new method to experiment with. Attempting to spot feed a crinoid in a traditional reef tank has been tried thousands if not tens of thousands of times, it doesn't work. The hobbyist in the article you posted has a tank set up specifically for NPS and performs 25% WCs twice a week.
BTW, I've seen crinoids feeding at night in the wild. Its amazing but you would be very surprised to see the plankton density that supports them. Heavy would be an understatement.
Wow... Sorry I mentioned it. I didn't realize trying a difficult specimen like this one would be so offensive. Thanks to all the well-wishers, and it won't come up again.
Wow... Sorry I mentioned it. I didn't realize trying a difficult specimen like this one would be so offensive. Thanks to all the well-wishers, and it won't come up again.
The odds of survival are basically zero, but I just can't help myself with certain animals, and these are definitely one of them.
If noone tried the difficult animals then we wouldnt be able to keep 1/2 the animals we do. It would be awesome if you can keep it alive.