LUIDIA ALTERNATA - Good? bad? input please!
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geoj
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Originally Posted by Garick
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Anyone have any experience with LUIDIA ALTERNATA, as a sand sifting cleaner? I'm looking for something to work on my sand beds and keep them clean. Deterius and a little brown algae.
L. alternata usually preys on other echinoderms like brittle stars, but on occasion they consume dead bait thrown overboard by fishermen. Since it is a common inhabitant of scallop beds off the Carolina coast, it usually preys on small individuals of the sea star species Astropecten articulatus. Because their tube feet lack the suckers needed to open bivalves, they swallow their prey whole, then regurgitate the undigestable portions.
http:///forum/post/3224603
Anyone have any experience with LUIDIA ALTERNATA, as a sand sifting cleaner? I'm looking for something to work on my sand beds and keep them clean. Deterius and a little brown algae.
L. alternata usually preys on other echinoderms like brittle stars, but on occasion they consume dead bait thrown overboard by fishermen. Since it is a common inhabitant of scallop beds off the Carolina coast, it usually preys on small individuals of the sea star species Astropecten articulatus. Because their tube feet lack the suckers needed to open bivalves, they swallow their prey whole, then regurgitate the undigestable portions.
fretfreak13
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Sounds like a messy eater, and an expensive one. 
Hate to be generic, but I'd go with a nice ammount of Narci snails.
Hate to be generic, but I'd go with a nice ammount of Narci snails.