Re: Linkia starfish

I f you like the color blue, and want something get a blue devil
damsel.......hardy as they get......;-)
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:11:01 -0600, <> wrote:
>><>sonoma1720@xxxxxxxxxxx (Roy) wrote:
>><>>Linkia are not the easiest to keep, not mainly form needing perfect
>><>>water parameters as much as it has to do how they were shipped to the
>><>>LFS, how the lfs acclimated them and how you as the end owner
>><>>acclimated them. IMHO these and the fromia need a aminimum of 3 hours
>><>>temp and drip acclimation as a minimum....but its been proven that
>><>>if a lfs just does a routine quick acclimation even though they may
>><>>appear fine weeks later they are extremely prone to going down hill no
>><>>matter how the end user acclimates them. I have seen lfs just reach in
>><>>bags of them and pull them out by the handfulls to put them from the
>><>>bags they temp acclimated them in to the sale tank.....stars shoul
>><>>dnot be exposed to air, just like sponges are prone to problems if
>><>>they are exposed. Yea, you may get away with it every now and then,
>><>>but its rarely the lfs keeps em long enough to start having signs of
>><>>problems......and then the end owner wonders what they did wrong, when
>><>>all parameters check out fine.
>><>>
>><> >>>>>>
>><>
>><> Looks like it's kind of the luck of the draw. I think maybe it's just the
>><>color blue. I've never been able to keep a powder blue tang alive either,
>><>though I do have a hippo that's been doing fine for three years. My lfs is
>><>pretty consciencious but I doubt they do 3 hour drips, and then there would be
>><>the question of how they were treated when they were first collected. As you
>><>said, linkias go pretty fast in the store and don't last long enough to see if
>><>there are any bad effects. I doubt I'll try again until I have my controller
>><>setup so I can keep the temp stable as possible.
>><>
>><> thanks\
>><>
>><> Bob

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