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I probably use the same LFS that Old Goat does and although I am just now building my aquarium I will ask the store owner or Matt for help. Both seem very knowledgable. There are the only two people in the store that I will even mess with! I use this forum for advice as well as helping to keep the LFS honest!I think that you shouldnt think of reefing as keeping a domesticated animal. A fish in a tank is Not a goat in a pen, its not a dog or a cat.
Reef keeping is building and stabling a whole eco system. It all builds off each other. Cant just plug in one piece of the system and ta da it will work. And here we have way over done one tiny section of the eco system.
I think you shouldnt trust your local LFS... that very few are trust worthy to start with most are there to make money...most of the time your talking to minimum wage teen to 20 somethings who dont know jack.(I know I was one a decade or so ago, and I wouldnt have told someone to do that!)
I think that 3 sand sifting starfish in what? 1 inch of sand in a 29 gal tank...no if ands of buts....will died.(and not in the well everything dies like...they will not have enough food Q for one to a few months) Your eco system cant support them and direct feeding doesnt really work for these, so winging it isnt going to help. And it's not pretty they dont just died...they peel off their skin, loosing limbs and start melting...potentially messing the rest of the tank up.
Can they be kept? Kept healthy? Sure! Code/shelly... just described a decent set up for ONE.
Id suggest returning them. I'd suggest laying into the owner of the store about how you were mislead, lied to, way over sold amd they should know better.... but thats just my take and not leaving without at least full price refund/store credit(which I sure would not spend at that time)
I dont care if you consider me an "expert" or not(and I'm really not trying to be a PITA just hit a few of my petpeeves here)..... Google it.... sand sifting starfish care/needs/ good or bad reef tank/ dying/melting
I probably use the same LFS that Old Goat does and although I am just now building my aquarium I will ask the store owner or Matt for help. Both seem very knowledgable. There are the only two people in the store that I will even mess with! I use this forum for advice as well as helping to keep the LFS honest!