How To Care For StarFish?
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flower
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Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302699
uh blue star choclate chip brittle geberal red star
Hi,
Sorry, the only thing I know that the eat are corals.
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302699
uh blue star choclate chip brittle geberal red star
Hi,
Sorry, the only thing I know that the eat are corals.
flower
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Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302704
good cause i dont have a reef so is it still ok and i dont want a star just like 5 hermits now and 10 astera or nassarius snails
I like the red one, but I can't have it becaue of the coral. When I first started in the hobby a fellow at the LFS told me it was reef safe..I learned the hard way that they eat coral.
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302704
good cause i dont have a reef so is it still ok and i dont want a star just like 5 hermits now and 10 astera or nassarius snails
I like the red one, but I can't have it becaue of the coral. When I first started in the hobby a fellow at the LFS told me it was reef safe..I learned the hard way that they eat coral.
btldreef
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Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302717
Its been up and running for four years now
but my lfs's stars always look crapy
Yes, but you've had a lot of issues with that tank in that time. As far as I'm concerned, your tank is NOT established/stable, or hasn't been for long enough would be a better way of putting it.
As for feeding and care, every star is different. There is a competitor to SWF that we all refer to as the "doctors" and they have some GREAT info for caring for almost all marine life.
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379813/how-to-care-for-starfish#post_3302717
Its been up and running for four years now
but my lfs's stars always look crapy
Yes, but you've had a lot of issues with that tank in that time. As far as I'm concerned, your tank is NOT established/stable, or hasn't been for long enough would be a better way of putting it.
As for feeding and care, every star is different. There is a competitor to SWF that we all refer to as the "doctors" and they have some GREAT info for caring for almost all marine life.
dmanatee
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Don't know if it helps or not but I have a serpent starfish (Ringo) and I love the thing (creeps everyone else out in my house though) but he scuttles around the tank at night looking for meaty tid bits that might have accumulated. Sometimes I even take a small piece of silver-slider or krill and feed him by hand. crawls right onto my gloved hand (completely underwater of course) and takes his food back to his little cave.