Anyone ever owned a Feather Star and/or a spiral gorgonian?

[Myka]

I've seen Feather/Basket starfish at a few different LFS. I have also seen one in a tank that I went to buy some corals from. It was the biggest Feather star I've ever seen. The guy said he had it for 2 years, and didn't do anything special for it. The tank also has the absolute worst Acoel FW infestation I have ever seen (I didn't buy any of the corals!). Who knows if the guy was telling the truth...maybe he had the star for 3 days for all I know.

I've never seen Iridogorgia in person. Very cool gorg, but I think the only hope of success would be to have a dedicated non-photosynthetic tank for it.

[mseepman]

My LFS brought in several one year and I tried one. It was beautiful but I was only able to keep it about 5 months. I tried every food that I could google and still nothing worked. It was a beautiful creature and it made me sick to watch fade away and die.

I would never recommend one. I know I spoke to my LFS about never bringing them in again and they told me that there was a 100% mortality among the people who bought them.

[nanmer]

Which are you talking about? Feather stars or coco worm/feather dusters? I have coco worms and feather dusters and they seem to be doing awesome.