freshwater/marine?
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My starfish are all alive after 3 weeks. They were hiding in my filter medium.
Are brackish water starfish very difficult to find for sale?
Yes. There are hardly any brackish water brittlestars and even fewer starfish (I can think of only one, the Baltic Sea population of Asterias rubens). For all practical purposes, forget about it unless you are able to actually collect your own from a brackish water environment.
Many small "critters" that come on living rocks and are sold cheaply to marine fishkeepers may be estuarine or euryhaline species. The blue-leg hermit crab is a classic example, and appears to be a truly euryhaline species. But unless you have the skills to identify marine invertebrates, or are prepared to experiment and lose livestock when things go wrong, I personally can't recomment trying out marine inverts in a brackish water tank. Far better to stick with known brackish water inverts, such as nerite snails, fiddler crabs, and hermit crabs.
Cheers, Neale
Are brackish water starfish very difficult to find for sale?
I guess the bench mark for claiming this as a sucess would be breeding
or at the very least spawing/mating behaviour
But your point is solid. I'd want to see them alive after months rather than years.
follow the instructions then
just click the 'cylon eye' as you call it