Wtb sand sifting stars

[nyguardian21]

Looking for some sand sifting stars, looking to buy asap.

 

[albano]

Looking for some sand sifting stars, looking to buy asap.

IMO...they slowly starve to death!

 

[nyguardian21]

Really?

 

[albano]

I don't know anyone with 'long term' survival...unless you have a really big/dirty sandbed to support them, I would suggest not buying more than 1...

I use cucumbers in my tank and sump to clean the sand...I have 4 or 5 that are over 7 years old

 

[nyguardian21]

Thanks for the info, any specific cucumber?

 

[Reef Fixations]

I've kept 1 SSS in each of my LPS/softy DT's and 1 in each of my reef holding tanks when I bring them in and I've never lost one. My own were over 3 years old and all of my sand beds were less than 1.5" thick. All tanks had low bioloads also.

I even had a few peppermint shrmp try to kill one for some wierd reason. They ate 2 arms and almost made it to it's mouth and it healed up after I moved it.

I don't know how big your tank is but if you go down the route of adding SSS's to your tank my personal recommendation would be 1/90gallons but I guess that all depends on your situation.

I had 1 in a 30g, 1 in a 54g and 1 in a 92 and all were healthy as could be. I also had 1 in my 210 that was a barebottom tank and after 8 months when I decided to start prepping the tank to get rid of the tank a friend of mine took him and he is still doing well. (There was one area where all of the sand that was on my LR settled. Roughly a 24"x14" patch of sand that was maybe 1/4" thick. He would spend about 1/2 his time in that and the rest on the rock and glass.)

 

[Reef Fixations]

Thanks for the info, any specific cucumber?

SSC's are usually reefsafe but the tigers can/may eat snails and they get to be about 5-6". I don't remember what they're name is but the pink ones are supposed to be 100% reefsafe and can get fairly large as in over 12".

If you have a small tank tho, you may want to take into consideration that if they are bothered by anything OR die, that they excrete a toxin that could be devastating to a small-medium size tank. Never stopped me from putting a Sea Apple in my own 92G tho.

 

[nyguardian21]

Thanks for the extensive info, i have a 29 aga, been setup for almost a year, have 1.5-2 inch of live sand.

 

[Reef Fixations]

Thanks for the extensive info, i have a 29 aga, been setup for almost a year, have 1.5-2 inch of live sand.

If it were my 29g, I would do a SSS. They don't grow quickly at all and they're normally only about 2-3" from tip to tip. It helps too if you have a decent amount of live rock for them to feed off of as well.

 

[nyguardian21]

Any idea where to get one locally?

 

[Reef Fixations]

If u cant find one i can probably have one for u on flatbush by noatrand in a week or two

 

[nyguardian21]

sounds good.