alaskan84 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Ill use it all not to worry guys. Guppy how did you cut out the lid parts? Were they smooth? I used a "Fat Max" cutting tool....it uses razor blades that are about twice as thick as normal ones and it let me cut right through the little edges that remained. Link to comment
VtheMaestro Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 FTS Nov 2, 11 Livestock Kenya Tree Unknown Paly Hidden Cup Corals Clams Spaghetti Worm Bristle Worm Scarlet Hermit Crab Edit: 1 dwarf cerith i like where this is going Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 @newman Well, whadyano. I received a baby blue asterina star as a hitchhiker on my kind midas zoas today. It is far too tiny, hope it survives. Looks like either the first or 3rd picture you posted. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 The little star. Link to comment
PinkDamsel Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 The little star. Whacha gonna name it? Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Can I steal twinkle? buy you a bloody mary at brunch to make up for the theft? Link to comment
PinkDamsel Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Can I steal twinkle? buy you a bloody mary at brunch to make up for the theft? Ha-ha! Sounds like a trade! Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 ha ha , harajuku. Ha-ha! Sounds like a trade! yay Link to comment
surgicalsense Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 ha ha , harajuku. ... Bless you Link to comment
PaulE915 Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 oooh reef tanks and heels such a powerful combination! Link to comment
.Newman. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 its blue? I would be interested in getting a few of them from you once you have more than you can handle they are elusive, but eventually (a few months from now) they will multiply to the point where there will always be some visible in your tank. they like to hide in the rocks too. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 Will they multiply? This one is so little Newman. Link to comment
.Newman. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Will they multiply? This one is so little Newman. asterina stars are tiny lol that's what makes the good pico inhabitants. and they multiply like mad once they find the best source of food. Though an individual can grow larger than that. one of my orange spotted asterinas is decent size right now. biggest asterina i've seen so far. but still they are about 3/4" Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 i read online that the bare bottom tank is not a good habitat, might leave these guys hungry which means they might munch on polyps. What should they be fed? Link to comment
.Newman. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 they eat off glass and rocks and other surfaces but not really sand. if you get algae growth and coralline growth any where in the tank, they'll be eating off those surfaces. i don't think that little guy will starve once your tank gets established. say, if he does attack you corals, can i take him off your hands lol? But seriously, the starfish might eat corals if it likes them or prefers them to other food sources. The orange spotted asterina i have (which originated from one individual in my picotope back when i first put in my LR) happily ate random stuff off my tank walls for a bout 6 months and then happily moved on to my zoas, multiplied like mad and proceeded to make zoas one of their primary foods. that said they still didn't make much of a dent in my zoas, they just really made me angry when they ate my "generation" zoas. i had only two polyps of those and one asterina took them out in a day. after that i proceeded to remove all of them into another tank... i like them more now though, and wouldnt mind if they ate some of my faster growing corals like GSP. Link to comment
PinkDamsel Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 The orange spotted asterina i have (which originated from one individual in my picotope back when i first put in my LR) Can 1 individual reproduce itself? Link to comment
FlCandy Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 OMG love the shoes! So hot! The starfish is cute too! Link to comment
.Newman. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 yes that's how i ended up with well over 40 of them (gave all those away and now have 1 left, but i think that one budded once so now i have two) What they do is grow a few extra legs (more than 5) and then split into two starfish and the two halves heal back up. some echinoderms can do this including cucumbers (pj68's cucumbers have multiplied) You can start with one individual and then wind up with many. this is what they do when they don't have two different sexes in the same tank. i think they can breed sexually as well if two different sexes are present but i bet that's a lot less successful in tanks since they have a microscopic larval stage. Most starfish do not hold their young until they develop into miniature stars. serpent stars might be the only ones hat possibly could do it but i'm pretty sure they too just only hold the fertilized eggs until they hatch and then release the larvae. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 @newman! I'm coming home loaded with 2 more stars! I bought a couple of zebra hermits and the store guys gave me 2 stars, one has blue the other has orange! @FI hehe Edit, it happened again! I was showing them pictures of my BC14 and the pico and they went "man you're geekier than we are". :@) they cracked up at the shoe pic. Link to comment
.Newman. Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 nice. can you please show pics of them? I would like to see the pattern and colors. hopefully i don't have them yet. Link to comment
tinkerer Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 i gotta find a local source for those stars, looking good kat. what happened to the branch piece from the first photos? Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 6, 2011 Author Share Posted November 6, 2011 I took it out, would take forever to color up in this pico but it was a statement piece wasn't it? Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Want me to borrow it? It'll be purple in two weeks. Haha. Link to comment
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