ID Please!!!!!! Feather star?
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mojohoojo
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yeah! my cousin order some LR and it arrive from the LFS. When i open the packege i tot it was some sort of weed, when it moved we got Freaked out!! she hates spiders so she ask me to take it or she'll chuck it down the toilet..Do you think this is safe? its doesnt have any mouth not that i can see....
spanko
Active Member
Information from Bob Fenner
The arms/branchlets bear pinnules that convey food via seemingly twitching their tube feet toward and across an elaborate conveyor system. During feeding the arms and pinnules are outstretched and their podia are erect. The papillae along the length of the podia are secreting mucus, plankton becomes trapped in the mucus and the podia tosses it into the ambulacral groove where cilia carries it to the mouth. The mouth in turn leads to a short esophagus then intestine. The intestine makes one or more turn down around the aboral side of the animal then turns around and heads back up to a short rectum and anus. Waste is ejected as mucus balls which drop from the anal cone. The whole of this digestive tract is lined with undulating cilia.
Most species are nocturnal suspension feeders. You will want to have timers to cut off your particulate filter(s) during these feeding bouts. Best done by using timers to switch the filter pump motors off for ten to fifteen minutes.
Food material in the wild includes all manner of phyto- and zooplankton and general detritus. In public aquaria, cultured diets of brine shrimp nauplii, copepods and diatoms have proved effective.
Disease: Infectious, Parasitic
None noted.
Other Biology of Interest:
Though the size of extant forms is a few inches to a couple of feet in dimension, that of some extinct crinoids was very great. One (Extracrinus subangularis had a stalk of nearly 21.5 meter! in length. Yowzah.
By any visit to your friendly neighborhood or national natural history museum you can gain an appreciation for how species-rich and dominant crinoids were in reef communities of the geological past.
Close:
The un-stalked, commercially available Feather Stars are oft brilliantly colored/marked and not impossible to keep. They are for the most part entirely non-obnoxious, being non-predatory, not-tasty, and disease-free; perfect reef tank candidates.
Thought to be extinct prior to dredging studies by the Challenger expeditions of the 1870's, free-living crinoids are difficult but not impossible aquarium specimens. Requisite are selecting healthy individuals, providing subdued lighting and hiding spaces and an accommodating crepuscular to night time feeding routine.
The arms/branchlets bear pinnules that convey food via seemingly twitching their tube feet toward and across an elaborate conveyor system. During feeding the arms and pinnules are outstretched and their podia are erect. The papillae along the length of the podia are secreting mucus, plankton becomes trapped in the mucus and the podia tosses it into the ambulacral groove where cilia carries it to the mouth. The mouth in turn leads to a short esophagus then intestine. The intestine makes one or more turn down around the aboral side of the animal then turns around and heads back up to a short rectum and anus. Waste is ejected as mucus balls which drop from the anal cone. The whole of this digestive tract is lined with undulating cilia.
Most species are nocturnal suspension feeders. You will want to have timers to cut off your particulate filter(s) during these feeding bouts. Best done by using timers to switch the filter pump motors off for ten to fifteen minutes.
Food material in the wild includes all manner of phyto- and zooplankton and general detritus. In public aquaria, cultured diets of brine shrimp nauplii, copepods and diatoms have proved effective.
Disease: Infectious, Parasitic
None noted.
Other Biology of Interest:
Though the size of extant forms is a few inches to a couple of feet in dimension, that of some extinct crinoids was very great. One (Extracrinus subangularis had a stalk of nearly 21.5 meter! in length. Yowzah.
By any visit to your friendly neighborhood or national natural history museum you can gain an appreciation for how species-rich and dominant crinoids were in reef communities of the geological past.
Close:
The un-stalked, commercially available Feather Stars are oft brilliantly colored/marked and not impossible to keep. They are for the most part entirely non-obnoxious, being non-predatory, not-tasty, and disease-free; perfect reef tank candidates.
Thought to be extinct prior to dredging studies by the Challenger expeditions of the 1870's, free-living crinoids are difficult but not impossible aquarium specimens. Requisite are selecting healthy individuals, providing subdued lighting and hiding spaces and an accommodating crepuscular to night time feeding routine.
chrisncarrieb
Member
I want one! Those look awesome!
mcbdz
Active Member
Please do not release on the ocean.
You should never release something that has been in your tank into the ocean. You can cause all types of issues.
Why not try to find an experienced reefer that has a large tank in your area. It would have a good chance. Or maybe an aquarium somewhere you could call and see if they will take it?
You should never release something that has been in your tank into the ocean. You can cause all types of issues.
Why not try to find an experienced reefer that has a large tank in your area. It would have a good chance. Or maybe an aquarium somewhere you could call and see if they will take it?
gypsana
Active Member
I did an impulse buy on one of these. (I learned my lesson!!!). They do not have much of chance if any to survive in captivity. They slowly starve to death. (check out my previous posts) They are very beautiful and harmless. At least yours came as a hitchhiker and not purchased. I wish all LFS would refuse to carry these creatures. It is so sad to watch them die slowly. If you know some one with luck with extremely difficult livestock pass him on.
chrisncarrieb
Member
Originally Posted by mcbdz
http:///forum/post/2564856
Please do not release on the ocean.
You should never release something that has been in your tank into the ocean. You can cause all types of issues.
Why not try to find an experienced reefer that has a large tank in your area. It would have a good chance. Or maybe an aquarium somewhere you could call and see if they will take it?
I live in Ohio, so the chance that I would release something in the ocean is slim to nil...but just curious...why not?
http:///forum/post/2564856
Please do not release on the ocean.
You should never release something that has been in your tank into the ocean. You can cause all types of issues.
Why not try to find an experienced reefer that has a large tank in your area. It would have a good chance. Or maybe an aquarium somewhere you could call and see if they will take it?
I live in Ohio, so the chance that I would release something in the ocean is slim to nil...but just curious...why not?
michaeltx
Moderator
Originally Posted by ChrisNCarrieB
http:///forum/post/2564878
I live in Ohio, so the chance that I would release something in the ocean is slim to nil...but just curious...why not?
releaseing something back into the ocean can introduce pathagens and other nasties into an area where there is no defense against. calupera species are banned form cali for this reason there is nothing in that area that can eat it and has become an envasive species in those areas.
same thing can apply to ick and other parasites that can run rampant if there is nothing to prey on it.
Mike
http:///forum/post/2564878
I live in Ohio, so the chance that I would release something in the ocean is slim to nil...but just curious...why not?
releaseing something back into the ocean can introduce pathagens and other nasties into an area where there is no defense against. calupera species are banned form cali for this reason there is nothing in that area that can eat it and has become an envasive species in those areas.
same thing can apply to ick and other parasites that can run rampant if there is nothing to prey on it.
Mike
mojohoojo
Member
well i thought so i have'nt released it to the ocean.....phew!!.....but if i send it back to the LFS they might just sell it off to some other buyer, so i figure i'll just find an experienced reefer and see if they would like to have it in exchange for something of course
.........in the mean time i'll get some plankton thingy that they sell in the LFS.... Note: if i live in US, i'll probaly ship it to one of you guys in the board ehehhehe
nano reefer
Active Member
that thing is huge! hitchhiker? lucky!