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Pick up the road kill and send it to the zoo or raffles museum. At least it will die for a reason. Either to be eaten..or to be preserved.

Linkas die and pollute ur water even before the shrimp eats 1/5th of it.

Wah..so many people got maid...such comfy life sia.. btw...virus..i gunbound too.

The price difference is due to quality. My pair is bright orange with more than 50% of the body black. Worth the money.

I'm used to my feeding live food..not restricted to just sea stars.

Mated pairs come in as mated pairs in the shipping bags. They will be placed together in the same container. You can try to pair them up urself using individuals..but chances are that it will be a very expensive experiment. Individual territory = etc...place them on opp ends of a 3 ft tank. Individual sea star = each shrimp : 1 sea star lor.

Maybe the cat just wanted to die.

Get a salifert test kit. I have reservations about the accuracy of the brand you are using..bad experience myself..

If your cauliflower needs to be target fed. I could suggest this to u..I just thought of it..invert a glass bottle over it...then pump the phyto in..leave it in the phyto soup for a duration that you are comfortable with.

Everything in your tank that has a calcium-based skeleton is a LPS. Includes your hammer and prata and bubble. Keep an eye on ur bubble..tissue seems to be receeding.

Normally they will live for few months..during this time they absorb their own tissues for energy. Supposedly they need more than just lots of phyto...they will need a source of zooplankton too. I have two..kept for about 3-4 months already..still too early to tell if they are possible to keep.

The toxins are stored in the body. Just like pufferfish. However, boxfish can expel them into the surrounding water but pufferfish can't. I'm sure the toxin can be just as harmful as fugu toxin. You won't know until you have tried.

Although DT is live..it does'nt give you any reason to overdose. All live stuff will die eventually. They might just die in your tank after going thru filter media, pump impellers etc... For me I dose everyday and i already notice I get slight green algae on my front glass everyday.. I just leave the skimmer off during feeding...after 3-4 hours I on it again...skim out the excess phyto.

Yes..they onli eat sea stars. Have heard reports of them eating the legs of urchins or cukes..not sure how true these reports are...but so far mine is leaving my cuke alone. A mated pair will get along. If you want to keep more than 1 but they are not mated pair..you will have to give them their individual territory and their individual starfish.

Oh yes...always keep 1 or 2 spare sea stars in the freezer if possible. You will never know when stocks of sea stars run low. My harlequin can eat frozen sea star...i just nid to cut off part of a leg and thaw it.

In my experience, they hate chocolate chip starfish. They tend to prefer those that are softer to the touch..might be easier for them to cut. I have tried linkas and not found it worthwhile. Linkas stink up the water alot when they are being cut up and stressed. A more worthwhile bet would be a sand shifting star. Fed one hand sized one to my adult harlequin..I think more than 1 month already and now it has just started on the last 1/2 of the last leg.

All boxfish have toxins. These are inherited genetically..not obtained from food sources. They release the toxins when they are stressed. In a tank without good skimming, the boxfish might actually just kill itself in its own concoction of toxins. Also..best to remove the boxfish if it is exhibiting signs that it is going to die. Might be unpredictable what might happen. Keep them in a tank without any fish that will bully them and there should be no problems.

It's a crinoid a.k.a featherstar. Belongs to the group echinoderms which also includes sea stars and urchins.. 100% impossible to maintain in captivity..unless you are running natural seawater thru your tank 24/7.

You will have to feed your flame scallop daily. They tend to prefer darker spots in the tank...so no point repositioning them in the brightness..they will end up hiding again.... Both my scallops have been in my cave for 3-4 months already.....

Hmm..you might want to check your kH.

20.5 degrees celcius..hmm...you can try keeping a whole tank of catalina gobies!

I have less than $1 in my bank account.

The point is to slowly acclimatize corals,clams and other photosynthetic organisms to MH lighting or even T5 lighting. A sudden increase in photoperiod or light intensity for the same duration can increase photosynthetic activity to such a point that there will be lots of free radicals being generated by mitochondria in cells. Too much free radicals will lead to oxidative damage of tissue. Until now my mushrooms are still recovering from the 'burn'.

A healthy clam responds well to shadows cast above the water by closing rapidly.... Don't choose clams that are gaping.

I know..you mean the big one around the height of an adult's waist right? Big black dog...very friendly to me..