Star fish

[craigwmiller]

The drip method (airline barely open via small valve or knot) is the only way to go. I use this for all livestock, and starfish are most important to have a gradual change. If you start a siphon with it and have a little airline shutoff valve, you can easily adjust the drip rate.

As for aquarium water in the tank, it's true you don't ideally want much of their water in the tank... though to be fair after 2 hours of dripping, and removing water often as the bag keeps getting full, the amount of store water left in the bag is in the minority, then it comes to technique: I turn off the pumps so no flow, and get him transfered into a small cup inside the bag, with water right up near the top. Then I slowly bring the cup to the water, and with one hand inside the cup on the star and another on the cup I slowly lower the cup into the water, still vertical, and as soon as the cup is about 1/2 submerged I pull the star into the water column and immediately remove the cup from the water without spilling - since no flow, the amount of water that left the cup will be negligible.