What are these called?

Discussion in 'ID This!' started by Giovanni, Jul 27, 2011.

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  1. saltyfresh

    saltyfresh Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    100% agreed of there's any more around find a new one there out for the money not the better of you and your fish
     
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  3. Reefing Madness

    Reefing Madness Skunk Shrimp

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    Go back to the LFS and ask them if you are able to buy Copepods from them, this is the easiest way to feed them. Most are able to get them for you.
     
  4. SushiGirl

    SushiGirl Barracuda

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    Common featherduster.
    Starfish looks like maybe some type of Fromia.
    And what they said about the mandarin.

    Oh, and please please please in the future research your purchases first so you don't end up with everything you buy dying on you. That size tank isn't going to host much in the way of fish or starfish.
     
  5. saltyfresh

    saltyfresh Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    Ya for 20 bucks a bottle that baby will eat a bottle a day
     
  6. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    Expensive fish!!! If you end up keeping it, I've seen the most success getting them onto frozen bloodworms. Many will eat live brine, so feeding a mix of the two works well sometimes.
     
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  7. saltyfresh

    saltyfresh Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    Mine eats PE MYSIS and I mix in cyclopeas now just for variety he is so fat hahahahahahhahah
     
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  9. lynnmw1208

    lynnmw1208 Skunk Shrimp

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    I agree. I don't think a mandarin (which is NOT a goby but rather a dragonette) will do well in that size tank. They are very hard to get to eat frozen foods. I have one in my 125 gallon and I have to shake my cheato to help keep pods in the DT.
     
  10. saltyfresh

    saltyfresh Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    Really not a goby at all?
    Like I know it is a dragonet but a goby dragonet?
     
  11. Steve34

    Steve34 Feather Star

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    That mandarin is going to do poorly in a 20gallon tank, fish will be miserable and starve. I can't speak to that starfish but would take the advice of the others.

    Wish you all the best, but I don't have much hope for the mandarin or the starfish surviving in that tank.
     
  12. starfish2217

    starfish2217 Horrid Stonefish

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    The starfish looks a lot like the one I have in my tank its my avatar pic, its just different colors. but mine eats krill when I place him on top of a meaty chunk he is very very active and moves around a lot, he also eats sponge and mollusks from what we all gathered here on 3reef. Not sure if it is the same species but you could always try feeding him krill to see if he accepts it. Good luck!