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Unread 02/26/2019, 11:18 AM   #1
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Keeping starfish

Are there any starfish that are reef friendly and have a good survival rate history in aquariums?


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Unread 02/26/2019, 11:31 AM   #2
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Serpent stars.


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Unread 02/26/2019, 09:04 PM   #3
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+1 serpent or brittle starfish.


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Unread 02/26/2019, 09:06 PM   #4
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Lol, skip "green death".

Buy a central disk size of less than 1" on your starfish.


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Unread 03/03/2019, 04:27 PM   #5
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Shoot, I should have been more clear. I’m
Aware serpents do well, but any others that look like traditional
Starfish?


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Unread 03/09/2019, 07:07 AM   #6
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If you find one I would be thrilled.

Can't keep fromia around for more than a year.

Orange linkia about 6 months.

I don't buy them anymore.


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Unread 03/12/2019, 09:50 PM   #7
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Shoot, I should have been more clear. I’m
Aware serpents do well, but any others that look like traditional
Starfish?
Not really tbh.

They either eat something that only a long established tank can grow (and even then they eventually always run out and starve), or they are serial killers that mow everything in their path if they're not fast enough.

True story; when I had harlequin shrimp I tried housing the chocolate chip starfish with my mantis shrimp to see if she'd killed them, instead the starfish actually caught and killed a perfectly healthy and fast mantis overnight. Was far from a pleasant experience and never kept them with anything that breathes since.

Going down the list of whats known to be available in the hobby, literally nothing sticks out by your description other then serpents and some brittles.

Only one i'm not too sure on is bat starfish but I'm pretty sure they're also predatory and some are cold water.


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Unread 04/07/2019, 08:28 PM   #8
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Here you go. Have kept two of these in my reef for a couple years. Don't bother
anything. Not sure what they eat, never directly fed them.
https://www.kpaquatics.com/product/c...tarfish-md-lg/


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Unread 04/07/2019, 08:53 PM   #9
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Starfish are better left in the outside waters


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Unread 05/31/2019, 03:37 PM   #10
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Aquilonastra starfish do just fine in reef tanks and in my experience do no harm to corals or other inverts. They eat the film-algae and bacterial films that are present on rocks and other surfaces inside the tank. Only thing they may damage is coralline algae.
And of course they may become a plague due to the ability of some species to reproduce rapidly via fission. A systematic revision of the asterinid genus Aquilonastra OʼLoughlin, 2004 (Echinodermata, Asteroidea)


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Unread 06/20/2019, 06:43 AM   #11
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Aquilonastra starfish do just fine in reef tanks and in my experience do no harm to corals or other inverts. They eat the film-algae and bacterial films that are present on rocks and other surfaces inside the tank. Only thing they may damage is coralline algae.
And of course they may become a plague due to the ability of some species to reproduce rapidly via fission. A systematic revision of the asterinid genus Aquilonastra OʼLoughlin, 2004 (Echinodermata, Asteroidea)
Those are some ugly *** starfish I guess if someone REALLY wants one....


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