stevearlen January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I'm thinking of adding a starfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterTang January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have two tiger-banded sea stars that the previous owner of my tank let me have. They've been really awesome... except for the one random time that one climbed the glass and stuck a leg in the maxi-mod. They're mostly nocturnal, but usually hang out just underneath my rock overhangs, so I can show them off to guests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaironman January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 brown/red serpent starfish and brittle starfish are easy to keep, plus they are good scavenger clean up crew. If you have enough green algae on tank walls/rocks, then keep the colorful red linckia starfish will be good. See BZA for pixes of different starfishes: http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productList...id=85&did=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefmontalvo January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I placed a Red Linkia once in my tank never saw it again. It used to hang out under this one rock. Have not seen it since. Could hermits have picked at the star fish? The tank has been running for a year when I placed him in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lman January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have a blue linkia in the tank and it moves all around. Has been in tank about 8 months. Acclimated it over 4 hours using drip. Need good diatom, algae for it to do well, but no issues so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rioreef January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have a green serpent that was banned to the sump after taking out some small fish. One got thing with a serpent, if a fish does die and is in a area where you can not get it out, it will consume it all. Only white bones left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesprite January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have a green serpent that was banned to the sump after taking out some small fish. One got thing with a serpent, if a fish does die and is in a area where you can not get it out, it will consume it all. Only white bones left. Green brittle stars are predatory and notorious for killing small fish, and these stars get very large. I had one that I target-fed every other day to keep it from going for fish. I would not trust anything that clings onto the roof of a cave under which fish swim - the green brittlestar I had use to conform the back side of its body to the top of the cave/archway so that when something swam under it, it could just drop right on top of potential prey. I had a red fromia starfish which was nice until it got accidently covered in sand and was too bad off by the time I found it. If you have pesky asterinas, a nardoa star would be a good way to get rid of them as nardoas eat asterinas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extreme_tooth_decay January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I also like the fromia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason the filter freak January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have a serpent star and sand sifting star and love (them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanCallan January 10, 2009 Share January 10, 2009 I have a chocolate chip star but he is food for the Harley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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