a starfish!

[cocoa_pleco]

today i went and got some LR to finish my 10g nanocube slat tank, 5lbs. anyway, i got a baby starfish in a piece! its white and red. what kind could it be?

and aquarium illusions sold their frag tank! a massive 250g custom long tank with 125g refugium and metal halide light for only 2500$

[coachfraley]

Its probably a full grown asterina star.

[AquaQueen]

Ohhh I bet it's a lil cutie...I love starfish...I seen this red & white one at the Aquarium and it had a yellowish center very cool looking. That's cool that you got it with your LR.

[gm72]

Wow, that's very cool, what a bonus!

[squirt_12]

Jeeze i want a salt water tank....but wont beable to afford one for quite a while.
lol

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, i got another goodie! a huge clam with bristles on its mouth. man i love fiji LR:9:

[cocoa_pleco]

one question on the starfish (i havent really had starfish, only one in my 10g (purple one) from 3 years ago). he looked like he had 3 long legs and 3 stubby ones. is he in the process of re-glowing the legs? and is there anything special i should feed him, or does he just scavenge?

[Dave66]

I'd have to see it, but if its the little guys that show up in reef tanks, its a detriatus eater. Got thousands of them in my refugia. The clam is a filter feeder, and there's not enough in the average tank to keep them alive. You can try gently squirting a particulate food for filter feeder at it with a turkey baster once a day every day if you want to keep it alive.

Dave

[cocoa_pleco]

thanks dave. i might have filter feeder food left from a while ago, i bought a big bottle of it.

[RobbieG]

Congrats - gotta love hitchhikers!

[gm72]

A question--how common is this to get "bonuses" with live rock?

[cocoa_pleco]

EXTREMELY! ive even seen people get those mini octupus's that live 2 months in their LR. Fiji is the very best too

[coachfraley]

You'll pretty much always get something. The question is, how much good stuff and how much bad.

[Dave66]

A question--how common is this to get "bonuses" with live rock?

I use aquacultured rock and sand from Florida, and its amazing the life that was in/on the rock. Lost a thumbnail to a muddy pink mantis shrimp, one of two that were in the first shipment. Corals, clams, tunicates, sponges, a chiton, a gorilla crab I gave away and dozens of other creatures came in with the rock.

Dave

[Rue]

Cool! Get your camera working up to speed and post a picture!:19:

[cocoa_pleco]

Cool! Get your camera working up to speed and post a picture!:19:

lol, hes hiding somewhere im sure. seeing him the first time was pure luck! but he clam is out and about