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Originally Posted by naesco
If you post an actual pic of it I may be able to help identify it or I can post the names of 6 similar to the N. glyptodisca
Wayne
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I'm tryin'. He likes to hang out in a position where I can only see his underside, which isn't much help. When it moves to the rock work I'll try to get a pick. I does look almost exactly like the picks I posted (but more intense purple. Those pics by the way I think are actually N. glyptodisca and not N. offreti.
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Originally Posted by Myka
ScubaSteve, there are newbies coming to these forums all the time. The lesson always has to be repeated. As much as you find it irritating to get responses like that, there are many who find it irritating that people continue to buy "difficult" or "expert" animals with little regard to the animals' requirements (if they are even known).
I'm glad to hear you're putting a little extra effort into gaining information on the starfish, and trying to find a feeding response. It sounds like you actually care about the survival of the animal. That's one step in the right direction. I hope you find a breakthrough because even Linckia starfish have very poor long-term survival rates.
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Ya, I get that. But then again, I'm far from being a newbie. I might not have 7,000 Canreef posts but I do know my s***. Bare in mind that other "newbies" around here might be the same.
Again, not trying to pick a fight or be a dick, just sayin'.
Then again, as this is a completely new species to me, I am a newbie in that regards and I am needing help. If you have any advice for survival of linkia and fromia that could pass on to me, that'd be awesome!
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Originally Posted by gobytron
Seriously guys...
If none of us ever bought anything to do with this hobby, there would be no issues whatsoever.
You are only splitting hairs from your high horses.
We are all equally guilty and nobody should feel more responsible than anyone else unless you dont own an aquarium at all and enjoy the hobby from watching tv or going out into the depths to explore them for yourself.
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I agree. And also, the only way we have ever learned to keep any species is by trying and learning. Th first big step was when we figured out how to keep SPS. The for years people said that you couldn't do mandarins; we started doing mandarins. Then they said you couldn't do mandarins in nanos; again, that's been proven wrong. Heck, look at Azoox tanks where people are keeping Dendronephthya successfully, and I remember someone long again saying we'd never be able to keep them.
We just need people to not blindly buy livestock and have it waste away; we need people who buy them and learn over time what it takes to keep them until we are successful.