Reef Discussion

Sep 24, 2013
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Palm Beach
Feeding Blue Startfish?
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Have you had success feeding the Blue Lickia starfish? They are notorious for starving to death in captivity and I am wondering if there is a new food in the market that suits them.

I heard they might hit Marine Grazers from Spectrum, but I couldn't find it around Sydney.

I have tried a bunch food combinations and they didn't seem to care. They only took Cyclop eeze, which is now also difficult to find and was very tricky to feed to the starfish.

I have also seem one of them feeding on mulm, or whatever is mixed in it, but that was an one off thing.
 

IJG3145

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Oct 27, 2015
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South Gippsland
You could try spiralina tablets. I feed them to my seastars but I've never had a linckia as I don't like their habit of bulldozing everything. This is from liveaquaria.com.

"Small pieces of clam meat or tablets can be placed under the Blue Linckia Sea Star starfish to supplement its diet."