STARFISH
 

How do u do ACCLIMATION for a starfish??? I wanted to buy one but dont know how??? Is there a special way?? Just cuz i heard u cant let air hit them

Re: STARFISH
 

Drip method over a longer period. I don't know who told you you can't let air hit them but thats a new one to me.

Steve

dry foot
 

Lately I have had better luck with snails that come dry wrapped in wet towels....you just drop them in...way better survival.
Does anyone know if starfish would benifit from a similar method....allowing them to fully enter the water on their own time, maybe from a shallow ramp off the center brace ??

Interesting idea..

I don't know the merit of the "don't let air touch them" thing but I've heard that once before too. I have a hard time beleiving that since a lot of stars live in intertidal zones and I'm sure at low tide they've been exposed ... of course who knows that could be more of an exception rather the rule.

The last two stars I've tried, I would drip over a >16 hour period. I would have a container in the sump (for temperature control, also if it overflows then it overflows back into the sump), and I would drip approx. one drip every 5 seconds and let it be for the next day.

The one star I still have with me (blue linckia); the other star (red fromia) was in the tank that developed a leak; I forgot all about it when we moved the rock from one tank to the new tank and although most of the water was the same, it wasn't 100% the same water, and I haven't seen that star since then (about a month) so I'm pretty sure it's gone.

I've had a few incidents/problems in the tank with my linckia where there were slight SG fluctuations and everytime it happens I sort of brace myself for the worst, but so far it seems to be hanging on. Don't ask me what it eats though I haven't the foggiest ... I'm not even certain it even IS eating. I've had it about 8 months.