just wondering i always find alive purple sand dollars on a beach i go to in the water is it possibal to keep them in a tropical marine tank and would a epualet shark and cortez stingray eat them or would they be okay also would morays eat them and wat would they eat?
sand dollars?
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so would some be okay in a tropical setup with the epualet,ray,morays ?IamEvilOne;4852874; said:
They will most likely die of starvation. Very difficult animals to keep for sure.
I've had my fair share with eels and sharks and they never bothered them when they were in there. But like I said, never had any last longer than a month.
I've had my fair share with eels and sharks and they never bothered them when they were in there. But like I said, never had any last longer than a month.
i think they eat peices of kelp and seaweed at the bottom of the ocean like the related sea urchin i wont get any but i will research wat they eat for the rest of us ill reply any info once i have it
cudamaster13;4856022; said:
eat alage possibaly if u put a large kelp blade in the tank with sand covering and burrieing the blades edges they would be able to eat it at least thats my hypothosis
Sand dollars eat micro nutrients, like sand dwelling zooplancton, you can't target feed them like other critters, they live off what grows in the sandbed and most tanks don't have enough of these mirco sand nutrients to sustain a sand dollar for more then a short time.