Feather star info.

Sleeperr34 · Jul 23, 2017

So my wife works at the local fish store ( yea discounts are great ) and she sent a picture of a feather star they got in. And i just had to give it a try. I know they are hard to keep and was wanting any info on food or anything from people that have had some luck.

Tank levels.

Nitrate. 0
Nitrite. 0
Po. .02
Cal. 410
Alk. 10.5 to 11.
Mag. 1400

I run a biodenitrator. Have 5 mangroves just starting. 50g sump. And the tank is a 215g.

Right now for feeding i have been using reef snow daily. As well as redseas. A and B daily. Adding in zoo and phyto plankton daily as well.

Im checking water levels daily to make sure nothing starts to spike at all.

Im nkt spot feeding him just adding 1/2 my daily dosing in the morning when i get up for work at 7am. And the second half when i get home around 5pm.

I have had the tank up and running now for about 6 months. Recent upgrdae from my 90g. I had running for about a year.

Thank you for any help or information at all.

Reefing Madness · Jul 24, 2017

saltyfilmfolks · Jul 24, 2017

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2013/7/inverts

Very very difficult.

Sleeperr34 · Jul 24, 2017

Looks like i better set up my auto water change soon.

saltyfilmfolks · Jul 24, 2017

And carbon dosing.

Bongo Shrimp · Jul 24, 2017

While there are a select few species which can be kept in a dedicated system, the all red ones never survive. You can try feeding it different small, meaty foods 3+ times a day, but it's impossible to tell if they are accepting what is being offered and they can take months to fully starve to death leading people to think they are having success.

TylerMoralez · Jul 25, 2017

Lucky find! Keep us updated [emoji4]

Sleeperr34 · Jul 25, 2017

For sure will. Im feeding like crazy and he seems to open up when i spot freed him. But from what im reading. Wont know for months.

Sleeperr34 · Jul 25, 2017

If anything im trying to talk the wife into letting me do a nonohoto tank that is plumbbed into my 215. A little 20g nano. So i can feed it like crazy. Bit it runs off my 215 volume as well.

K. Steven · Jul 29, 2017

I would make sure the foods you're feeding are suitable size for the food groove the crinoid uses to move food towards its mouth. Inappropriately sized food particles may be the cause of the slow death and poor survivability of these organisms in captivity.

This paper goes into food particle size on page 19:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...g-comatulids/C10C9ABF66CFC1622AF4C4D5A35BA857