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rkhlk

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A few days ago a brittle star lost a leg, and for the past couple days i have a leg still moving around my tank grabing pieces of brine shrimp, is this normal? Should i remove it? Next question is can you have too much live rock in your tank? I don't think I'm there yet. I have a 55 gal with about 50 lbs of rock. ( i just added a 18 lbs rock recently so thats why I'm asking) Should I be turning off my powerheads during feeding? it seems to blow everything around quite a bit. Just wondering
 
toyshika

toyshika

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Originally Posted by rkhlk
A few days ago a brittle star lost a leg, and for the past couple days i have a leg still moving around my tank grabing pieces of brine shrimp, is this normal? Should i remove it? Next question is can you have too much live rock in your tank? I don't think I'm there yet. I have a 55 gal with about 50 lbs of rock. ( i just added a 18 lbs rock recently so thats why I'm asking) Should I be turning off my powerheads during feeding? it seems to blow everything around quite a bit. Just wondering

Hold up....did you say the leg that fell off is grabbing food??????
As for the LR...well...as long as it's not going to start a cycle in your tank, you should be good.
 
turningtim

turningtim

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Not sure about the star? But I turn off filters and PHs when I feed. I leave them off until all traces of food are gone but thats just a couple of mins. You may think about a couple more pounds of LR but that would depend on Bio-load of the tank.
HTH
Tim
 
jakebtc

jakebtc

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that leg will slowly die off, brittle stars don't regenerate like some do take it out before it disolves
don't do more then 2 lbs. per gallon is a good rule
only need to turn them off if nothing is being able to catch it lol
otherwise your good
 
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rkhlk

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If 2 lbs per gal is good rule, does that mean I can have 110 lbs of rock in my tank or does it mean how much volume of water is in the tank. I mean if i add rock to my tank then it no longer holds 55 gal. do you know what i'm trying to say.
 
turningtim

turningtim

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For a 55 stay within a pound per gallon. You will not have a big enough bio-load to need more than that. When you get in to bigger tanks with a bigger bio-load (bigger fish= more poop) you can get up to 1.5-2 lbs per........
These are not hard-fast rules just suggestions about tank size not volume of water......
HTH
JMO
Tim
 
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