Foogoo Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Are there any coral safe starfish that would be suitable for nanos? Link to comment
luv2jeep Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Almost all are reef-safe, but none will fare well in a nano. Starfish do NOT like fluctuating parameters (i.e. nano-reef) Some have done it, but I would not suggest it. The tank will do fine w/o it and it just stresses the animal. Link to comment
printerdown01 Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 mini brittle-stars if you can find them. Full grown brittle-stars so long as you don't have fish... Link to comment
cal3v Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Brittle stars are ok as long as they aren't the big green ones.jme Link to comment
Physh1 Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Stay away from most knobby starfish (chocolate chips, bali, etc) because they are know to eat corals, polyps, etc. Cameron Link to comment
sjpresley Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Guys at my LFS kind of keep a look out for any very small brittle/serpent stars that come in on LR. In my 10G, I have a few Asterina that were hitch hikers as well as some (~7) baby Ophioderma that came with some LR. I bought a small Ophiolepis. All have done great for many months. I also have a small (disc is about 7 mm across) Ophiothrix sp. I bought last week that hanks out under a power head with it's arms out filtering the water as it flows by an 2 Linkia arms that had broken off of a brown Linkia at the LFS. I donated a buck a piece for the Linkia arms. One of them now has four (~ 3 mm long) little arms radiating from the broken end of the arm; the other hides in the back and I don't get a good look at it very often. Anyway, if your not afraid to feed your tank, there should be plenty for small stars to scavenge. If you tend to starve everything and expect your corals to get theirs from light only, you may want to skip them. I have heard/read all the stories about starfish being difficult to acclimate, but I haven't seen it on any of my specimens. I drop 'em in and they go about their business, never a loss. I used to acclimate everything maticulously for about 3-4 hours, corals, inverts, fish. I don't buy any fish, and I still acclimate my arthropods, but anything else just goes straight in and does fine. Anyway, just my experience. Link to comment
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