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Unread 10/25/2006, 02:03 PM   #2
greenbean36191
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No one knows what they eat, but it seems to be something growing on the rocks. In most cases it takes at the very least 150# of well established LR to keep them fed. They also need a tank with a very stable salinity.

If you can meet those two demands, and you decide you want one try to get the LFS to hold one for a few weeks. They're often acclimated porrly somewhere along the chain of custody, and it takes a few weeks for the damage to manifest itself. You don't want to buy a dying star. If at the end of the holding period the star has any sort of sores, wounds, missing legs, or looks deflated or wrinkled, don't buy it. Once you git it, you want to acclimate it very slowly over the course of a few hours.

Oh yeah, and they are reef safe.


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