Star fish question

[Leverage Lad]

Thinking about getting a star fish. My tank is only 25 gallon and I allready have two clowns an anemone and a clam. Should I even be concidering a star fish? If so are there any that would be comfortable in my system? The tank is well established with lots of little critters popping up everywhere all the time. The only coral I have are almost all zoa's. I little Zena forest and some green star polops. I would like some thing reef safe but that will not grow to big for my little tank.

[JennM]

Did you have a particular type of sea star in mind? Serpent stars are pretty hardy. You might want to avoid brittle stars, some can become predatory.

No chocolate chip stars - they eat corals (but they are bulletproof). A sand sifting star may not have enough grazing room in your tank.

Linckias might do OK but they are extremely sensitive to changes in pH and specific gravity so in a small tank they often fail.

Red fromias are sized right but they too are very sensitive to changes in pH and specific gravity. How long has your tank been up and running?

Jenn

[JY13131]

Starfish are difficult!

[Leverage Lad]

The tank has been running for almost a year. i was thinking along the lines of a Marble Sea Star.

.http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...catid=2133&N=0

They seamed not to get to large and might take to eating suplemental food. The changing in water paramiters are what is worring me. I loose about a gallon of water a day due to evaporation. Not sure what that adds up to in salinity diffrence but I don't really want to risk it.

I haven't read much about brittle stars. Will they bother the clam or any of the coral? And how preditoral will they become if they are fed almost every day?

[VWD]

That star you are looking at is a really cool star, will be very sensitive to changes as Jenn has already mentioned, it is reef safe and we get them in often

[fish.freak]

The marbles get larger than formia, and will require a larger tank to keep well fed.

[JY13131]

Hey Smelly Mod! Can you get any tanigi tangs of white line tangs(?) right now and how much for little ones?