Linckia Sea Star,

rrobbieboy · 03/29/2011, 11:54 AM

does anyone know how to care for a blue Linckia Sea Star?

Sk8r · 03/29/2011, 11:56 AM

Nobody does. They manage to survive in very large, OLD tanks. THey eat, apparently, the slime-film on old rocks.

rrobbieboy · 03/29/2011, 12:10 PM

is there anything yoou can add to you water to help them out.

rrobbieboy · 03/29/2011, 12:10 PM

i had my fair share of things die and i rufuse to let it happen anymore

Angel*Fish · 03/29/2011, 12:15 PM

Then you probably need to find a home for it. The LFS sells LOTS of animals that should be left in the ocean, are only for experts or are only for people with 1000g tanks. You have to do your research on your own, because they aren't going to say, "This animal doomed to stave in your tank"

I'm sorry this happened to you, good luck.

Angel*Fish · 03/29/2011, 12:18 PM

Here's a link from an old thread, scroll down to the last post on the first page http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85361 HTH

Palting · 03/29/2011, 12:21 PM

Mine lasted 2 weeks. He ended up wrapping himslef around a rock with a resident BTA, and was dead the next day. Here's a pic of mine, and here's a link on care: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...568&pcatid=568 . Good luck!

Angel*Fish · 03/29/2011, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Palting

Mine lasted 2 weeks. He ended up wrapping himslef around a rock with a resident BTA, and was dead the next day. Here's a pic of mine, and here's a link on care: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...568&pcatid=568 . Good luck!

Not really much about the care of them in that link at all. It does give some acclimation info. If you acclimate it well it has a very good chance of living long enough to starve over the course of about a year, depending on your tank.

cjtice · 03/29/2011, 12:50 PM

Mine has lasted in mt 99 for almost 3 years but I am 99% positive he is smaller now than he was 3 years ago. I have tried all types of prepared foods with him and nothing seems to entice him to eat.

He has been very hardy, surviving a tank crash that took out all my fish and 50% of my corals. Also I do notice that he likes sponges of some sort. Everytime I put a new rock or anything in the tank, he is the first one on it and normally will have his "central disc" buried in one of the crevices getting something. I have seen him sit on the same rock in the same place for days.

If I had it to do over, I would not have bought it, but I was slightly ignorant and thought it was the prettiest thing I had ever seen!

Reeferhead · 03/29/2011, 03:17 PM

I had one last 4+ years in a 60 gal slowly getting smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared.

rrobbieboy · 03/29/2011, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Reeferhead

I had one last 4+ years in a 60 gal slowly getting smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared.

anything special you did

Aqua81 CA · 03/29/2011, 05:48 PM

I've had mine for about 4 years now. i have a 150 gal, 30 gal sump, 25 gal refugium. Apparently he likes to eat something in my tank - If i knew that they were hard to keep i probably wouldnt have purchased it.

rrobbieboy · 03/29/2011, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Aqua81 CA

I've had mine for about 4 years now. i have a 150 gal, 30 gal sump, 25 gal refugium. Apparently he likes to eat something in my tank - If i knew that they were hard to keep i probably wouldnt have purchased it.

whats the special suace in the tank. lol

brannock_16 · 03/29/2011, 08:56 PM

Aren't the red linkia stars much more hardy than the blues?

Angel*Fish · 03/29/2011, 09:15 PM

There is no sauce. If you read that post by Ophiuroid I linked to above, you will have your answer. It's less a mystery that we need to solve than a near impossibility to feed them in most tanks. She makes it very clear in her post what they need and eat.

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Originally Posted by Angel*Fish

Here's a link from an old thread, scroll down to the last post on the first page http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85361 HTH

Sk8r · 03/29/2011, 09:58 PM

Don't trust your lfs, I'd say, if they have sold a new hobbyist such a creature: come to RC and ask before buying, and we will tell you whether or not it's a good bet for a new tank.

Reeferhead · 03/30/2011, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by rrobbieboy

anything special you did

Nothing... but I wouldn't consider 4 years of a slow death a successful way to keep any animal. My suggestion is to leave them on the reef until someone with more experience than either of us figures out their needs.

I actually ordered a mottled linkia which is supposed to be more hardy but they were out so they sent a blue as a replacement without telling me first.

03/29/2011, 11:54 AM	#1
rrobbieboy Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 119	Linckia Sea Star, does anyone know how to care for a blue Linckia Sea Star?

03/29/2011, 11:56 AM	#2
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Nobody does. They manage to survive in very large, OLD tanks. THey eat, apparently, the slime-film on old rocks. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

03/29/2011, 12:15 PM	#5
Angel*Fish cats and large squashes Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Houston Posts: 5,951 Blog Entries: 1	Then you probably need to find a home for it. The LFS sells LOTS of animals that should be left in the ocean, are only for experts or are only for people with 1000g tanks. You have to do your research on your own, because they aren't going to say, "This animal doomed to stave in your tank" I'm sorry this happened to you, good luck. __________________ Marie So long, & thanks for all the fish! __________________________ Current Tank Info: Pairs: flame angels, cherub angels, Red Sea mimic blennies, yellow fin fairy wrasses, clowns, mandarins, blackcap basslets, shrimp gobies, damsels, dispar anthias, yellow clown gobies, threadfin cardinals --- Tanks: 100g reef, 2 x 30g refugiums

03/29/2011, 12:18 PM	#6
Angel*Fish cats and large squashes Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Houston Posts: 5,951 Blog Entries: 1	Here's a link from an old thread, scroll down to the last post on the first page http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=85361 HTH __________________ Marie So long, & thanks for all the fish! __________________________ Current Tank Info: Pairs: flame angels, cherub angels, Red Sea mimic blennies, yellow fin fairy wrasses, clowns, mandarins, blackcap basslets, shrimp gobies, damsels, dispar anthias, yellow clown gobies, threadfin cardinals --- Tanks: 100g reef, 2 x 30g refugiums

03/29/2011, 12:21 PM	#7
Palting Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,912	Mine lasted 2 weeks. He ended up wrapping himslef around a rock with a resident BTA, and was dead the next day. Here's a pic of mine, and here's a link on care: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...568&pcatid=568 . Good luck! __________________ Anything I post is just an opinion. One of many in this hobby. Believe and follow at your own risk of rapid and complete annihilation of all life in your tank :) Current Tank Info: Incept 3/2010, 150 RR, 50g sump, 20g fuge, 150w 15K MH x3, T5 actinics x8, moonlight LED x6, 1400gph return, Koralia 1400 x4, 300 g skimmer, 4 tangs, 2 mandarins, 2 perc, 6 line, 3 cardinals, 2 firefish, SPS, LPS, zoas, palys, shrooms, clam

03/29/2011, 12:10 PM	#3
rrobbieboy Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 119	is there anything yoou can add to you water to help them out.

03/29/2011, 12:50 PM	#9
cjtice Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Asheville, NC Posts: 303	Mine has lasted in mt 99 for almost 3 years but I am 99% positive he is smaller now than he was 3 years ago. I have tried all types of prepared foods with him and nothing seems to entice him to eat. He has been very hardy, surviving a tank crash that took out all my fish and 50% of my corals. Also I do notice that he likes sponges of some sort. Everytime I put a new rock or anything in the tank, he is the first one on it and normally will have his "central disc" buried in one of the crevices getting something. I have seen him sit on the same rock in the same place for days. If I had it to do over, I would not have bought it, but I was slightly ignorant and thought it was the prettiest thing I had ever seen!

03/29/2011, 03:17 PM	#10
Reeferhead Recovering Reef Addict Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii Posts: 4,856	I had one last 4+ years in a 60 gal slowly getting smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared. __________________ Nick St. Louis Area Saltwater Hobbyists' (SLASH) Coral Donor Program (CDP) Because, "Friends don't let friends pay $50 a polyp!" Over 200 different corals and counting... Current Tank Info: 352 Quintillion Gallon

03/29/2011, 05:48 PM	#12
Aqua81 CA Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 2	I've had mine for about 4 years now. i have a 150 gal, 30 gal sump, 25 gal refugium. Apparently he likes to eat something in my tank - If i knew that they were hard to keep i probably wouldnt have purchased it.

03/29/2011, 08:56 PM	#14
brannock_16 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 618	Aren't the red linkia stars much more hardy than the blues?

03/29/2011, 09:58 PM	#16
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Don't trust your lfs, I'd say, if they have sold a new hobbyist such a creature: come to RC and ask before buying, and we will tell you whether or not it's a good bet for a new tank. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

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