HELP with orange linkia star

[wilson the volleyball]

iml ooking into it b4 i get interested in it.

does n e ove have n e info aobut that star. i want to get it for my 20 g fowlr that i am going to be having one or two false percs. and one other fish ( dunno wat) or tow if i only get one false perc clownfish

 

[Anonymous]

Huh?

 

[tazdevil]

Deciphered:

I'm looking into it before I get interested in it.

Does anyone have any info about that star? I want to get it for my 20gallon FOWLR that I am going to be having one or two false percs. and one or two other fish (I dont know what yet) if I do only get one false perc.





My answer: Linkia's in general are a tougher star to acclimate and keep alive. You may want to consider something else until you get more experience.

 

[Anonymous]

Sweet Jesus, THANK YOU Taz!

 

[tazdevil]

I can only handle one of those per year. :lol:

 

[wilson the volleyball]

wat type of star could i have.

sry bout the messy typing

 

[Anonymous]

Sea stars in general are among the more delicate creatures. I would stick to those that are inexpensive, and after that go for serpents.

 

[tazdevil]

I wouldn't begin to say that there is an easy star out there to keep. The biggest problem people have is acclimation, it has to be a lot slower and "kinder" than most fish. You also can not take them out of the water to place into tank, they'll get an air bubble trapped in their circulation. But the "easiest" are the brittle stars, which may also eat some of your fish given the chance. Or serpent stars, I don't believe they're known to do that.

 

[K9coral]

I heard that linkia's are very hard to acclimate and they wont eat. (which means they die!).

Hooked on phonics wurked for me

 

[ricky1414]

i would not worry about starfish, generally too dificult to keep. they wont really stir the sand as well as nassarius snails will.

Eye wents to colladge, and eyes edumicated. :wink:

 

[K9coral]

lol

 

[wilson the volleyball]

i tihnk that i might just drop the starfish now. but i was wondering i heard to have a max of 3 fish in my tank . and then i was at another site and they tole me that it would be fine if i had four. i am hopfullruy for sure going to have 2 fals perculas, but i was wondering would it be alright to aslo hold a yellow clown goby and a ryal gramma in here too. i am not going to have a skimmer but am going to do weekly water cahgnes probably on the weekend .

 

[EmilyB]

Hooked on phonics wurked for me

Hooked on monkey phonics was more fun tho.... :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

No one can give you "hard" numbers, or even rules of thumb to go by. There are many reasons for this, the animal's feeding habits, activity levels, territory requirements, so on and so forth. For all intents and purposes, your tank should be considered a nano. ONE perc, a royal gramma (or yellow roundhead, something similar that doesn't swim around and around & stays SMALL), clown/neon gobies, that sort of thing.

 

[ChrisRD]

I agree - you should stick to small, peaceful fish. IME you'll be OK with a mated pair of small clowns like A. percula or A. ocellaris in a 20 but personally, I wouldn't attempt any other fish with them. There's just not much room in there.

Keep in mind that even normally peaceful fish like the gramma can get a bit ornery if you box them in too much (ie. like putting several fish in a 20 gallon).

 

[wilson the volleyball]

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ive decided if i end up gettin a star prolly months after i get my fish settled it will probably be a chocolate chip starfish

 

[Anonymous]

careful with the choco chip star...it is a predator and will consume almost anything including sleeping fish...i happen to have one and have never had problems with it...actually its the oldest critter i have. However this guy has a rap sheet in general.. they are sold rather inexpensively compared to other stars...perhaps a serpent star or another sort of brittle star..keeping away from the green and yellow brittle, it too has been known to devour fish and/or coral..

 

[mac_guy]

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ive decided if i end up gettin a star prolly months after i get my fish settled it will probably be a chocolate chip starfish

I would advise staying away from the chocolate chip starfish. As Lord Nikon said, they are predators. Mine behaved himself for about a month and then decided to go to town on my star ployps... just about ate the whole thing before i found him and pried him off.
Good luck with your purchase though.

Cheers!

 

[PeeJ]

Wilson...have you ever used a computer before?

 

[wilson the volleyball]

yeah ive used a computer b4 i use it almost everyday. why?