Sharkbait19
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Hey everyone,
For as long as I could remember, even before owning a saltwater tank, I’ve wanted a starfish. I’ve always thought they’re such unique and fun creatures to watch, and would certainly not pass up an opportunity to own one.
Of course, I know how difficult it would be to keep something like a chocolate chip or blue lynkia star in a fluval 13.5. Fromias I read are hard to feed, and brittle stars I kinda think are...meh.
I never thought i would come back to looking into asterina stars, as they can be pests. Then I found a different asterina species, one that is not a common hitchhiker — Asterina gibbosa.
Doing research into them, I found that they’re nothing like their hitchhiking cousin. For one thing, they don’t reproduce like crazy. For another, they eat diatoms algae, and I am in need of a good algae eater. Lastly, they’re more of real starfish, getting to about 2 inches rather than the 0.6 that the other species would get. Of course, this still isn’t a species of starfish one would find on liveaquaria or at their local Petco. Does anybody else know about these stars? If they’re not in fact pests like their relative, does anybody know where I could find one??
For as long as I could remember, even before owning a saltwater tank, I’ve wanted a starfish. I’ve always thought they’re such unique and fun creatures to watch, and would certainly not pass up an opportunity to own one.
Of course, I know how difficult it would be to keep something like a chocolate chip or blue lynkia star in a fluval 13.5. Fromias I read are hard to feed, and brittle stars I kinda think are...meh.
I never thought i would come back to looking into asterina stars, as they can be pests. Then I found a different asterina species, one that is not a common hitchhiker — Asterina gibbosa.
Doing research into them, I found that they’re nothing like their hitchhiking cousin. For one thing, they don’t reproduce like crazy. For another, they eat diatoms algae, and I am in need of a good algae eater. Lastly, they’re more of real starfish, getting to about 2 inches rather than the 0.6 that the other species would get. Of course, this still isn’t a species of starfish one would find on liveaquaria or at their local Petco. Does anybody else know about these stars? If they’re not in fact pests like their relative, does anybody know where I could find one??
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