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thanks matt outside sources have confirmed that it is indeed a comb sea star and highly predatory--it'll eat anything it can get its arms on
actually right now i'm half-tempted to chop him up and see if he regenerates into multiple starfish. that wouldn't be cruel, would it?
i dug up the starfish today and the shell was under him in the sand. i pulled it out and examined it--no hermit crab. i took a sniff and it STUNK in...
heh yeah, small net i sent you a PM a couple of days ago asking if that was you, there were so many coincidences. i guess you didn't notice? here's...
aye, i found the same thing. one site said that members of the Astropecten genus are difficult to differentiate.
"This species a lot of time buried below sandy silty bottoms in ... is best recognised by the dark purple upper surface and the orange colour...
My only beef with LFS workers is if they don't know how to say "I don't know". Don't be afraid to admit it if someone has got a weird...
the way i understand it, ich is a result of opportunistic bacteria becoming stronger due to fish stress, i.e. the fish become stressed for some...
PS I found this while googling the harlequin shrimp: http://www.fishpalace.org/H_elegans.html "They'll even drop food such as shrimp that I...
Sweet Yeah I know exactly where Moses Lake is--I grew up in Richland. Anyway, I was pretty surprised to watch my little fella climb all over the...
Aye I can't believe he ate the whole thing, lol! Right now I'm planning on trading him back to the store for 3 hermit crabs--they're pretty good...
Hello It seems I have a predatory starfish on my hands. I bought the dang thing with the assurance that it was a peaceful sand sifting sea star...
i had a scarlet hermit crab until just today--my starfish ate it! :'( He was a cool little guy. I acclimated him carefully and when I finally put...
well, i looked at some online sites and the fireshrimp is indeed as expensive as your LFS. if you wanted to get a bunch of them, though, this would...
what do scarlet hermit crabs eat? i recently got a baby one, thinking he would eat uneaten food that lands on the bottom of the tank, but he seems...
puffers eat crustaceans, too, but i guess you don't have any puffers. maybe you can do a water test for nitrates? or have you used any copper-based...
cool, good to know! what are those plants, exactly?
that looks like a well-thought-out plant setup. small ones in front, tall ones in the back. nice! how long has the tank been running? i hear that...
hey, About a month ago a moved my freshwater fish to a small 5-gallon K-mart special tank featuring an undergravel filter. I used gravel from...
i've seen em up in the top corners at LFS, can't be too irregular
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