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Are those the Nicrew Gen 2 lights? How do you like them?

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They are! We waited till after the holidays when we could afford to get 2 gen 2s. I don’t have a basis of comparison being new to everything but I read they have a much sturdier design than the gen ones and man they are solid. But I’m learning the mantra of this hobby is “just need one more thing”, so gotta get the remote to control them now lol.
 

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Thanks for the input! I’ve already prepped him with the expectation of only getting what we can safely keep, and that we would need at least 6 months to a year to get the tank mature enough for that. Unfortunately being new to everything the IM aio 40gal is what we could afford, and he’s mentioned being okay with a brittle. We’ll see how it goes, taking it step by step!
Nothing wrong with your IM 40 or your time frame, in my opinion.

Again I wish you the best of luck with your build!
 

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Great point friend, I meant to touch on this!

If a sea star is what you and your family really want, I'd encourage you to do some real research, so as not to disappoint your kids. Arguably, the easiest, least expensive and maybe hardiest real sea star is the Chocolate Chip Star (Protoreaster nodosus), but these animals are not safe around corals if you aspire to also have corals.

Furthermore, many of the sand-sifting sea stars really require a very deep and mature sand bed, or they simply deplete their food source, and slowly starve to death in many home aquaria.

Not true sea stars according to the taxonomists who do this work, but I think bristle stars (a common name with multiple Genera) and the like will make your daughter very happy, and be a much better "resident" in your tank:
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As always, good luck!
YES!!!! THAT is what I was trying to think of. The brittlestar. And CC stars can also get huge. Twelve inches across. I had one of these for a few years WITH corals in a 90g. Yep.....Didn't research it well at all. It went down with the rest of the tank before it got even close to full size. It was only years later that I realized I'd done an irresponsible thing on putting that in there.
 

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YES!!!! THAT is what I was trying to think of. The bristlestar. And CC stars can also get huge. Twelve inches across. I had one of these for a few years WITH corals in a 90g. Yep.....Didn't research it well at all. It went down with the rest of the tank before it got even close to full size. It was only years later that I realized I'd done an irresponsible thing on putting that in there.
Chocolate chips stars are a dime a dozen, and have been for decades now. Now we know about these animals and other stars :)
 

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