Picked this guy up today and looking for more info on them, i know they are filter feeders and gave this guy a feeding of ocean snow tonight, he seems to be going well but want to know how often to feed, etc.
Looks more white due to light, looks healthy, strong, solid green and orange, very sticky to touch.
Beautiful! They had a nice red one at my LFS. They kept in an NPS tank and fed it repeatedly throughout the day with a variety of invert foods. Too much work for me!
Wow! That thing is gorgeous! I have never seen those before! do you mind me asking how much you paid for it? I want one! but sadly enough I don't think my skimmer could keep up with the feeding demands.
Ocean snow won't cut it for him. No one really knows exactly what they eat, which is why NPS keepers feed maybe 10 different foods multiple times per day, hoping the crinoid will eat something out of the mix. I've heard great things about Fauna Marin foods. You should look into those.
Thanks guys, this is the first one ive seen down here to be honest, the store i got one had a black one before a couple of months ago but i never got to see it. They seem kinda rare here in Aus but anyway ReefZilla, i paid about $50 or 55 AUD so thats about 35-40 USD.
Thanks Connor, i read no one really knows, not a great deal of info out there, i've got frozen baby brine shrimp, will start feeding that too, it seems healthy as it was sticky and it grabbed onto the ocean snow, ill see what else is out there. Maybe if i grabbed some things like reef roids, havent seen Fauna Marine foods down here before
Baby brine shrimp are way too large for crinoids. Like 100x too large. Fauna Marin is German maybe so it has to be ordered online. But NPS keeps swear by the stuff.
Try frozen cyclops and reef plankton.
It worked for mine.
Unfortunately my crinoid lasted about 9 months.
I think it was stung by my RBTA.
I have not seen one for sale in NJ for at least 6 months.
Good luck with it.
Cyclops are way too big as well. If you can see the particles of food with your naked eye, or even like 10x magnification, then the food is too big for a crinoid.
Tried to google search for any suppliers of Fauna Marin here and nothing, might go get some reef roids, could also pick up micro-blast or phyto-blast, those should be small enough right?
Unfortunately not a positive update, been having issues with equipment, had an mp40 out of action for well over a month as well as a pair of golden sleeper head gobies making a mess of things but they are finally gone and mp40 back, slowly starting to get the tank back in action. As for the crinoid, it's been difficult in a 6 foot as it hasnt always been in a position where i can target feed it, a lot of the time i saw it less and less, its tentacles have declined in length, i barely see it now given its also gotten smaller.
The success rate on keeping them alive is very poor. It one of those things where you how do you measure success. If they live 5 or more years in the wild and we can only keep them for a few months to a year then it not very good and should be left alone and not collected. I think that is why they don't show up in the trade very often and that's a good thing.
Agree. This is one animal that should stay in the ocean and shouldn't be collected. It is way too difficult to keep alive in most tanks, as noted by several folks so far.
Helmermud had a crinoid in a tank that was full of gorgonians and sponges and which was heavily fed daily for all the filter feeders. Not your regular type tank that is usually kept. I believe the crinoid did well for a little while, but I haven't heard much of an update lately about it. One post in here: http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f...-210457-27.html?highlight=crinoid#post2492271
Since you already have it in your tank, you may want to reach out to Helmermud to see if he is still around and if he can provide some advice. Alternatively, you can return the crinoid to the lfs.
I agree, they are best left in the ocean, sadly, returning it to the lfs i got it from wouldnt do it much justice, he didnt even know what it was, not to mention its hard to spot these days.
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