Red Linkia without lighting?

[aaron186]

I have a 100 gallon tank that is sorta new. I started a cycle with dry rock in December, my RSR 350 leaked in February and I placed my cycled dry rock in bins with power heads and heaters for 2 months until new tank was delivered. This tank now has the same rock in it and has been running for 2 months with good stable chemistry.

In waiting for my bristletooth tangs to finish quarantine before I turn on my lights.

My friend is getting out of the hobby and is willing to give me his Red Linchia Star. Will the star do ok in a tank without lighting for a month or two or should I pass? It’s seeded with pods and I’m feeding 7x per day with an avast plank feeder and their reef jerky which has a lot of smaller particulate food and algea in it. I have minimal visible film algae with lights off and I’m running UV

 

[The_Paradox]

Lighting should not be an issue as long as you are adding food. Tank better be dead-nuts stable though. Starfish tend to be fairly sensitive.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

I highly doubt it's going to gain any nutrition at all regardless of what coral foods or phyto you're dosing unless by chance all the rock came right out of the ocean. They don't eat particulate food or copepods.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

It doesn't need light, but will need food. I suggest to do a quick google search on their survival rates in home aquariums, you'll see that the general consensus is that they are extremely difficult to keep alive.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

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It doesn't need light, but will need food. I suggest to do a quick google search on their survival rates in home aquariums, you'll see that the general consensus is that they are extremely difficult to keep alive.

M really hoping this isn't a new dry rock/sand startup...that would mean 0 food.