Push up Star

[Limpit]

Don't know what is going on tonight with the tank but I am getting some weird pics out of it.
Shut the day lighting down to actinic stage and all of a sudden I see this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Limpit/starstrech.jpg
Star came out of the sand for a minute or two, stretched like this for about 45 seconds then went back down into the sand. Maybe it was just doing a morning stretch! :lol:

[Reptoreef]

Looks like he's releasing wastes into the water column... he doesn't want it in his food!!!

[Limpit]

Repto,
Thanks for the reply!
I never would have thought of that but it makes perfect sense.
My day is complete, I learned something new! Thanks

[Reptoreef]

Not a prob... he had to clean up a bit too.

[dakar]

Repto,
Thanks for the reply!
I never would have thought of that but it makes perfect sense.
My day is complete, I learned something new! Thanks

Looks like a few of us went and learned something... that's the last thing I would have thought of as well... time to start watching our stars a bit more closely now. Funny how the education never ends.... just when you thought you had seen everything there was to see in your reef up pops something new or some new activity.

We kept FW tanks for well over 20 years and doesn't seem like we learned a fraction of what SW has taught us in just over a year :)

[Reef_Angel]

What an awesome picture you managed to capture for your gallery too! You just have to keep a camera right at the tank because there's always the most awesome spectacles presenting themselves! Thanks for sharing your morning!

[Limpit]

R.A.
No, I don't keep the camera right by the tank. My tanks are all in the basement and my camera is usually upstairs.
It usually goes like this:
1. I see something going on in the tank I think is cool.
2. I go running up the steps (luckily they are carpeted) yelling about whatever I have seen.
3. My wife gives me a weird look and goes back to whatever she is doing.
4. I run down the hallway, get my camera and run back down to the basement and hopefully whatever I saw is still going on and I get a picture of it.
5. I go back upstairs, show my wife the picture I took, she says something like "oh ya that is cool" and then goes back to what ever she was doing.
6. I post it here and then just wait until I can run around my house yelling like an idiot again!

[dakar]

:sign5:

[Reef_Angel]

The only difference here is that Dave and I run together, and our teenage daughter looks at us like we're totally psycho! It's ok though, she's got a tank cycling in her room as we speak. Soon she will be running with us! :-D

[m1a1fixer]

What kind of star is it? My GF wants one but I'm not sure if a 55 gal is big enough. Anybody had good luck with a star that doesn't tip everything over and is happy in a 55?

[Limpit]

They are Sand Sifting Stars and they do cause a little bit of trouble some times but only with the rocks that lay on the sand. I have more trouble with my Turbo Snails though.
I would not recommend the Sand Sifters though. Now that I have them I find out that they eat all the good critters that are in the sand and when there are no more left the Stars starve, or at least I have been told happens. I am hoping that they will eat any left overs that the fish do not eat.