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The $80 starfish continues to live. I had to make some space in the refugium for it to get easier access to the sandbed, even though you'd think with five arms it could figure out how to push some leaves out of the way to get where it wants to go.





Here's the story of the original impulse buy, something very uncharacteristic of me. Six weeks later, it seems to be a good echinoderm. I think on Monday I'll introduce it into the reef and see how it acts.

For now, it submerges into the sand like a sand-sifting starfish, and is nearly invisible until it wants to reveal itself.

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  1. DJ in WV's Avatar
    do you add any iron to your tank you alway have very nice growth of your algaes in your fug. My 180 is the 1st tank that I have tried to employ a fug and it has been largely unsuccessful. At first I was using red graci and it grew very well tho it didnt hold its color and was very fragile and fell apart so I fed it all to the tang and started over with cheato grape and a short leaf genus ? and have had nil luck grape runners and rots at the opp end to match the growth cheato has grown none and to short leaf grow in very small patches of 3 to 7 leaves and stops. I do have regular out breaks in the fug of diatoms but not in the dt. Im running 2 65w pc 6500k on a 40b fug with about 3 1/2 deep marco fine agro substrate. Any suggestions as im about ready to scrap the fug idea for a clown and host tank and leave it plumbed into the 180s system
  2. melev's Avatar
    2 bulbs over a 40g breeder? You'll probably need four bulbs. I had 3 bulbs of my 29g refugium under the 280g reef. It sounds like you aren't getting enough light penetration.

    No, I don't dose iron.
  3. vrba's Avatar
    Marc, that starfish is really awesome!