Sand-sifting Starfish Care | Reef2Reef
2014年6月23日 · Generally, people recommend large tanks and waiting until your tank is established before trying these (or pretty much any) sea stars, and the star survives on detritus in the tank. Unfortunately, even in a lot of these tanks, after they finish clearing the detritus from the sand, they typically starve.
Sand Shifting Starfish question | Reef2Reef
2023年11月8日 · The star will likely just slowly starve in both systems and one day it’ll die in the sandbed and rot away and you’ll never know it. In no way at all does a sand sifting star decimate a sandbed, what’s in your sandbed is catched fish waste and tank detritus and the stars waste pellets add more waste to the bed.
Sand sifting seastar care | Reef2Reef
2020年6月29日 · With sand sifting stars, most people recommend waiting until your tank is established before adding them - however, you might be able to target feed it with things like clam on half shell, oyster, snail or conch meat (a lot of places offer these frozen), a good quality omnivore food (like LRS Reef Frenzy) etc.
Sand sifting star help | Reef2Reef
2023年4月12日 · Looking at purchasing a sand sifting star for my 20g Waterbox. Tank is 3months old, used live rock. Sand seems to be teeming with pods and miscellaneous fauna, would it be a bad decision to add? would be happy to dose pods and phyto regularly to keep a supply for it, and target feed it mysis to...
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2023年2月24日 · These are - according to the best sources of information I can find - the sorts of foods sand sifting stars consume in the wild, and the star should swallow these foods whole if they aren't too big - you might need to experiment a bit with the size of the pieces offered to get it sized just right, but generally I'd say err on the smaller side.
Sand shifting starfish | Reef2Reef
2023年1月18日 · Here's my current sand sifting starfish advice (no one has gotten back to me on if it helps or not yet, so I don't know if it's useful advice at this point): I'd try something like clam, oyster, etc. and/or snail meat (you can find various frozen/live marine snails to try online, including conch meat, periwinkle snails, babylonian snails, etc.)
Should I feed my Sand Sifting Sea Star? - The Reef Tank
2004年6月14日 · sorry for re- opening the thread. I was told by my lfs to get a sand sifting seastar. the problem is that i only have a little over an inch of sand in my tank. should i remove the star or will it survive. also the tank is only 3 weeks old.
What do sand sifting starfish eat? | Reef2Reef
2020年5月20日 · What will a sand sifting starfish eat, I have seen people say microfauna and detritus and I do plan on having copepods and I have a 5" deep sandbed over a 36" x 14" dimension, if I can't have these, are there any other sea stars that are beginner friendly and do not say a serpent or brittle star...
Is a sand sifting star worth it? | Reef2Reef - REEF2REEF Saltwater …
2020年7月16日 · I have Strawberry Conch, sand sifting Star, and Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber in a 90 that stir my bed up rather well. In the 32.5 year and a half old I'd honestly try another Conch. I worry about the Star not getting enough and feeding it is difficult. Not large enough IMO for a Sea Cuc , depending on total bioload.
What to feed a sand sifting sea star? | Reef2Reef
2021年12月30日 · The ironic thing is my own sand sifting has an odd behavior. I'm in a mature 180 with lots of junk in the sand, yet the dang thing won't go into the sand. It seems to prefer the areas where the sand meets the glass height for whatever reason. I'll move to sand and it'll wonder back to the same areas.