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Star Disease 4, Star
Disease 5, & Asterina Stars, Chocolate Chip Stars, Crown of Thorns Stars, Fromia Stars, Linckia Stars, Linckia Stars 2, Sand-Sifting
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Stars, Asterina Stars,
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| Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus 1758), Linckia
Seastar. Blue and greenish. Also found in other
colors, brown, tans, violet to burgundy, even mottled... And there
are other species of the genus offered to the trade. This animal is
very (95+ % IME) often doomed from the retailer to aquarists...
having suffered too much damage and neglect in the process of
collection, holding, shipping... Look for damage (ex. right) and
avoid such obviously poor specimens. In the wild this is an algae,
bacteria, detritus feeder... that needs space (hundreds of gallons)
and mulm (muck, dirt, call it what you will, on the bottom of its
system to survive. My advice, look to other genera, species of
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| A Purple "Linckia", Tamaria stria
Gray 1840. Eastern Pacific; Baja to Columbia. Need rock substrate
for habitat, not over-zealously clean. Best kept one to a tank.
Family Ophidiasteridae. |
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