Small Starfish

[Brad Birch]

I have been in the SW hobby for a few years now and things seem to be going
well. My wife has been bugging me about starfish and I was wondering if
there were any good small reef safe starfish available? My tank is a 25 gal
flatback hex with a 10 gallon sump and numerous softies and sps.

[Dragon Slayer]

the only reef safe starfish IMO are plastic toy ones.

kc


"Brad Birch" > wrote in message
...
> I have been in the SW hobby for a few years now and things seem to be
going
> well. My wife has been bugging me about starfish and I was wondering if
> there were any good small reef safe starfish available? My tank is a 25
gal
> flatback hex with a 10 gallon sump and numerous softies and sps.
>
>

[Don Geddis]

"Brad Birch" > writes:
> I was wondering if there were any good small reef safe starfish available?

Linckia multifora (red and blue varieties):
http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#redstar

Also a thorny starfish (echinaster echinophorus)
http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#thornystar

Both (can be) small (4-5" across), and are reef safe, eating algae films.
You'll often find them at the water surface, hanging on to the glass with four
arms, and one turned upside down with the tentacle feet probing the water
surface (in order to feed on floating algae films).

-- Don
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Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/

[wolfhedd]

i got lucky 6 months ago and bought some rock with some starfiss on it,
didnt realize it, but rocks spawned about 20-30 starfish that wouldnt hurt
anything. theyre all growning of course, but will be a year before there
bigger than a nickel.
WH
"Don Geddis" > wrote in message
...
> "Brad Birch" > writes:
> > I was wondering if there were any good small reef safe starfish
available?
>
> Linckia multifora (red and blue varieties):
> http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#redstar
>
> Also a thorny starfish (echinaster echinophorus)
> http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#thornystar
>
> Both (can be) small (4-5" across), and are reef safe, eating algae films.
> You'll often find them at the water surface, hanging on to the glass with
four
> arms, and one turned upside down with the tentacle feet probing the water
> surface (in order to feed on floating algae films).
>
> -- Don
>
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> Don Geddis
http://reef.geddis.org/