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Just wanted to introduce myself

Jeremy Brito

Jeremy Brito

Hello everyone,
My Name is Jeremy, I am kinda new to saltwater and reefing but have been diving head first into the hobby by reading everything i can find and chatting up my LFS and one of the things that was brought up was i should join a local reef keepers club as they are great sources for help and knowledge and just over all a good community of people with a common interest in this awesome hobby.
So first bare with me i am knew to forums and grammar has never been a strong suite of mine. A little about my self and my tank. I live in central Jersey and grew up in a small shore town in Monmouth county, me and my wife recently bought a house in Howell and one of the agreements we made was when we get a house i cant put a fish tank up. So i have always had a fish tank in my home growing up a nice 55 gallon fresh water tank stocked with tropical fish but it has always been my goal to have a salt water tank. Back when i was living with my parents the reason we never went salt water was because we were always told saltwater is 1 expensive and 2 extremely difficult to manage and needed specialized equipment, But when i finally decided i was going to give it a shot and did some research i learned that both of those things aren't so true (except for the money aspect).
So excited as i was i decided to set up my first tank 8 months ago i choose a Nano Reef 10 gallon standard size tank on the advice of an old salty guy who said if you can keep a Nano Reef going well you'll have no problems when you decide to go big.
I must be doing something right because to date knock on wood i have not had a single tank crash. i currently have about 9 pounds of live rock and 20 pounds of live sand i keep a clean up crew of inverts your basic blue legs and turbo snails with a blue linkia star and a pistol shrimp who is paired with a watchman goby a tomato clown and a coral beauty all healthy and getting along well. I plan on going to coral as soon as i can find a decent light that i can afford and learn some more about keeping coral which is what i hope to learn here.
well thats enough about me i look forward to meeting you guys and cant wait to trade ideas and share this cool hobby
 
Jeremy Brito

Jeremy Brito

Dave said:
Welcome Jeremy. How long have you had the blue linkia star? Never had much luck with stars myself.


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Hey dave sorry for the late reply I work nights. the linkia star is a recent addition to the tank he has been there about 2 weeks so far he is doing good and eating so i feel like he may last.. stars are hit or miss from my limited experience and from what i have been told one or two things happen ethire they were dieing when you bought them or they die from starvation or issues with the water. what i have learned with my chocolate chip stars is a good way to get them to eat is wait for them to come up to the top of the tank and extend a ray (arm) across the waters surface. When they do this i take a square cut from an algae sheet and place it gently on the arm against the glass so it sticks to the glass. The star fish then pull the algae with there tube feet into there mouth and eat eventually they learn this trick and i move on to piece of shrimp i get from the seafood isle. You have to wait for the star fish to get used to the algae because the first few times if your not suddle enough the star fish will back away from the food instead of eating it. the linkia is different and more challenging they are highly sensitive to water changes and exposure to air (though im not 100% sure about the second).
 
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Jeremy Brito said:
Hey dave sorry for the late reply I work nights. the linkia star is a recent addition to the tank he has been there about 2 weeks so far he is doing good and eating so i feel like he may last.. stars are hit or miss from my limited experience and from what i have been told one or two things happen ethire they were dieing when you bought them or they die from starvation or issues with the water. what i have learned with my chocolate chip stars is a good way to get them to eat is wait for them to come up to the top of the tank and extend a ray (arm) across the waters surface. When they do this i take a square cut from an algae sheet and place it gently on the arm against the glass so it sticks to the glass. The star fish then pull the algae with there tube feet into there mouth and eat eventually they learn this trick and i move on to piece of shrimp i get from the seafood isle. You have to wait for the star fish to get used to the algae because the first few times if your not suddle enough the star fish will back away from the food instead of eating it. the linkia is different and more challenging they are highly sensitive to water changes and exposure to air (though im not 100% sure about the second).
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I had a Blue Linkia in the past and have one now. They seem to be fine grazing the tank and eating what ever it finds. I never saw it high on the glass only mid way. It seems to eat frozen brine and mysis as well. Only other star I ever had luck with was a serpent or brittle.
 
Jeremy Brito

Jeremy Brito

MadReefer said:
I had a Blue Linkia in the past and have one now. They seem to be fine grazing the tank and eating what ever it finds. I never saw it high on the glass only mid way. It seems to eat frozen brine and mysis as well. Only other star I ever had luck with was a serpent or brittle.
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I love serpents they always amaze me with there movement a month or so ago my wife and I were looking at our live rock and saw about 5 tiny tiny serpent stars emerging from a crevice I was excited but with in a few days they have disappeared they ethire got eaten or found some great hiding spot but it's amazing the micro fuana sometimes found some
 
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Jeremy Brito said:
Hey dave sorry for the late reply I work nights. the linkia star is a recent addition to the tank he has been there about 2 weeks so far he is doing good and eating so i feel like he may last.. stars are hit or miss from my limited experience and from what i have been told one or two things happen ethire they were dieing when you bought them or they die from starvation or issues with the water. what i have learned with my chocolate chip stars is a good way to get them to eat is wait for them to come up to the top of the tank and extend a ray (arm) across the waters surface. When they do this i take a square cut from an algae sheet and place it gently on the arm against the glass so it sticks to the glass. The star fish then pull the algae with there tube feet into there mouth and eat eventually they learn this trick and i move on to piece of shrimp i get from the seafood isle. You have to wait for the star fish to get used to the algae because the first few times if your not suddle enough the star fish will back away from the food instead of eating it. the linkia is different and more challenging they are highly sensitive to water changes and exposure to air (though im not 100% sure about the second).
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Interesting. Learn something new all the time in this hobby. Never actively fed my stars, which maybe was the issue. Always assumed they would just scavenge. Never tried a blue linkia as I understood they needed a large tank, but I guess that isn't true if you can get them to actively feed 'by hand'.


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