I saw a beautiful red feather star today at the lfs. I’d like to buy it so I’m researching. I’d like to hear from members that have successfully kept a feather star for a year or longer. I’ve read they are hard to keep. They need food sized 5 to 20 microns. They need to be feed several times a day with brightwell aquatics reef blizzard-o. My 30g long has 2 clowns, 1 neon dotty back, 1 blood shrimp, 1 skunk shrimp, 1 bubble tip anemone and that lives in a cave under some rocks and never moves, 1 hammer coral, 1 emerald crab, a few hermit crabs and assorted snails. The water Parameters are checked daily and very stable. Do you think I can keep a feather star in my tank?
Feather star
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Dr. Dendrostein
Marine fish monthly
My filtration is overkill(which helps ), I thought I did my research for one. My two wavemakers are the issue, they move water to fast even on 10%, they need calmer water movement. Bummer
I've had mine 1 month, all black. Still healthy no atrophy .Example picture
Dr. Dendrostein
Marine fish monthly
As to keeping one. They do need lots of feeding .
Goodair
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It's gorgeous star but ^.
mark vincent muriel
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they need constant feeding just like basket sea stars (basket sea stars are
much harder to take care for in my opinion) also just like sea urchins when they are starving they too will shed their feathers...
much harder to take care for in my opinion) also just like sea urchins when they are starving they too will shed their feathers...
Coralreefer1
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Very difficult to keep! Lost two within a matter of a month or so! Better left in the ocean, IMO.
Money as in constantly buying blizzard-o or am I missing something? I love the photo of your black feather star jomama. It reminds me of very expensive lace. Does it usually stay anchored in one spot or does it move around a lot? I have a quieter corner of the tank where the flow is lower. It has a live rock with small hitchhiker feather dusters and a really cool white sponge. The white sponge is growing numerous stalks with balls on the end. Very fun to watch it grow.
I forgot to mention I also have a fromia star. He was incredibly small when I bought him. I spot feed him phytofeast. He has doubled in size and is very active. All day we play where’s the Patrick (that’s his name). Kind of like the old children’s book where’s Waldo. Thank you for helping me make informed decisions about this beautiful feather star.
ThunderGoose
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Lots of very experienced people have tried but I have yet to hear of anyone who has managed to keep one for a year. My opinion is We shouldn't support the collection of animals that should be left in the ocean.
