[furyous67]

Hello,
I would really like to add a starfish (other than a brittle star) to my 90 gallon reef tank.
Lots of live rock, mushrooms, leather corals, 5 fish.

Can anyone recommend a colorful, reef safe, starfish which can be kept alive in captivity?

Thank you.

[Fishhead Junkie]

i would suggest a blue or orange linkia starfish, except i have yet to have any success with either of the 2 and have never seen or heard anyone have had any success either. they always seem to die or just disolve away into nothing.

i have a cute little greenish colored starfish that i have been told is some kind of linkia starfish, has some spots on it, really skinny looking, more so than a sandsifting starfish(that might be a good one to get for you 90gallon).

too bad those chocolate chip stars and such are not reef safe. if i could chop off one of my starfish legs and it would reproduce...i would hook you up.

[carym]

I have had a orange linka star for about 9 months now and it is doing great, I also want to add a blue linka but just haven't gotten around to it. I have also had sandsifting stars but I lost mine a while back (got it at the same time as the orange linka), but I was having some other issue when I lost that one.

[newguy420]

what exactly is included in the"not reef safe" catagory? I really wanted to get a choc chip star. I have a zoo and a brain coral and I'd like to get some other things.

[Tonz of fun]

I have had a orange, blue, and now red linkia starfish, they are awesome. You need lots of LR to keep them alive.

[CyberJester]

I love star fish they rock.
One of the highlights of my tank is when my brittle star comes out for feedings.

Sure would like to get some of the linkia starfish, they are really colorful, however, as someone metioned hard to keep.

[jsgates]

I would try a linkia again, but I read that they eat sponges!! Anyone know of a starfish that doesn't eat sponges and is reef safe? I'd really like to have a starfish that hangs out on the glass alot. Sandsifting star is buried most of the time, but he does his job. I had a blue linkia and orange marble sea star before I had my red ball sponge, but they only lasted about 4 days each............don't think these guys ship well....plus the ones I had just hid in the live rock all the time.

[jsgates]

I'm trying some Red Fromia stars this time. Just ordered two of them with my coral order from Vividaquariums.com. They don't seem to bother sponges from what I read.