What kind of Starfish for a Reef tank?

[Asuman1179]

Is there any types of Starfish that would work inside of a reef tank setup? I do not trust the people at the pets store to tell me anything correct.

[Chemguy85]

Linkas are good as well as marble sea stars. I don't care that much for brittle stars and their cousins the serpant stars because they sometimes can inflict pain to our presious corals. Ben

[jcgso]

I have not had much luck keeping Linkias alive in my reef tank. I've had a couple of Serpants for almost a year, which are doing well. Be careful with the brittle stars, especially the green ones. They get huge and will eat fish and small inverts. I also have a sand sifting star, but there's lots of debate on RC about their value.

[porkbullet]

I also have a sand sifting star in a 10 gallon. Seems to be doing great. But I keep reading here on RC, that they are not good. Anyone have experience with these stars?

[yellow_tang2009]

I have a linka in my 55g and he is doing well just drip water in a bucket through a air hose and aclamate him real slowly. after that you should not have any problems.

[Neurosis]

I used to have a sand sifting star, but it ate out all my microfauna.

[masterswimmer]

My Linckia Multiflora is doing fantastic. Got him from Reefermadness back in June '04. He already dropped a leg and it has regenerated.

Russ

[porkbullet]

What is microfauna? If it ate it all, does that mean it starved to death??

[Neurosis]

ate out most of the pods and worms in the sand within 3mos, not that I had much to start w/ at the time. yeah, it did die.

[porkbullet]

Would a refugium help keep the star fed?