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Posted: December 09 2008 at 1:33pm |
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I was wondering if it is possible to propagate starfish. I seem to recall seeing a starfish propagated on television by cutting off one of its legs and then it grew into a new starfish (and the old one grew back its old leg). Would this be possible in an aquarium? Would it release toxins into the water? It seems almost too easy...
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Posted: December 09 2008 at 1:56pm |
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I just did some research...and it seems that only some starfish are able to reproduce this way. I wonder if mine are able to. I have a sand-sifter and a linckia.
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Posted: December 09 2008 at 2:16pm |
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I wanted to do this very thing for a junior high science fair(way back when) luckly for the starts my mom talked me into something with a little less.....life involvement of other creatures!!
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Posted: December 09 2008 at 6:55pm |
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Many starfish will propagate this way, but I would not recommend it with either the linkia or sand-sifter. Once they lose a limb the usually perish in aquaria.
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Posted: December 09 2008 at 9:57pm |
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i have a serpint that lost a whole leg and i just left the leg in there that would be cool if i got a new one from it
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Posted: December 09 2008 at 11:57pm |
Thats a good questions and I've been wondering the same. I have two Harlequin shrimp and over the past three months they have completely wiped out my Asteria infestation and I'm going to need to start feeding them more starfish. This would be a cool way to help cushion the cost if it is possible.ÂÂ
Did you find out what kinds of starfish do this?
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 9:41am |
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For your Harlequin I would use chocolate chips. I have never had good luck "propagating" them, but I used to keep about a dozen starfish (which you can usually pickup cheap if you have a pet store order them for you) in my sump and when I needed to feed my shrimp I would just cut a leg off one of them. By the time I rotated through the starfish they first one had grown back its leg and I could start over. In a sense it was a perpetual food source.
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 2:12pm |
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Thanks for all the input! Does anyone know of anyone who has tried to propagate starfish, or any websites? I just can't give up on the idea. I might even just gamble and try it myself, but I'd like to at least find somebody who has tried.
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 8:34pm |
Thanks Jake, I'll look into ordering some soon. I love my little babies. I have one that I aquired off the forum that is HUGE and he even comes out during the day. If you have a starfish problem they are the best thing for it, but I digress. This was a thread for propagating not decimation  .
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