I spending some time thinking in one of my LFSs about a bichir that looked promising when a very loud and boisterous hippy looking lady came in. She sort of waddled her way over to the guy in charge of the fish (her skirt was the size of my car) and asked for, and I quote, "A large tank, water that is exactly like the ocean, and everything a starfish needs to be happy and feel at home". While I was busy trying to prevent myself from snorting half a frappacino into a oscar tank, she launched into a story about how she found this starfish dying on the beach, had rescued it, put it in a bowl of tap water, and felt that it had a chance of surviving because it would twitch its arm every once and a while. By this time the fish attendent had figured out the following: this lady knows nothing about fish and nature, the starfish won't survive, and he needs to end the conversation as soon as possible before he laugh in her face. Basically told her that it won't live, you can't set up a marine tank that fast, stop picking up dying animals off the beach, throw the starfish back in the ocean; it probaby had a better chance of surviving there anyway.
As funny as this is, I do wonder: can you snatch a starfish (or other oceanic creature) from the ocean and put it in your tank? Not that I would do it, because it would bring parasites and disease with it. Just wondering
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As funny as this is, I do wonder: can you snatch a starfish (or other oceanic creature) from the ocean and put it in your tank? Not that I would do it, because it would bring parasites and disease with it. Just wondering
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