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Topic: linkia starfish question

Posted By: peiji
Subject: linkia starfish question
Date Posted: October 23 2003 at 3:01pm

Does anyone out there have an orange or red linkia? I just bought one and I know that they need a long time to acclimate but I thought that was the only issue. I recently read that no ones really knows what they eat and someone said that you should have at least 100lbs of LR for them to live. I have a 46g tank with probably around 60lbs or so of LR. Is there something I can feed them directly? Do they eat shrimp or krill or anything? Anything else anyone can tell me?

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Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: October 23 2003 at 4:21pm

peiji,

I bought a small red linkia about a month ago. The thing crawls all over the place. I have yet to actually witness it eat. (it never goes after food on the bottom) But it appears to be thriving. I have a 120 gallon tank with about 100lbs of live rock.