Hey, Mart! The sand is "old", although not that deep. Could I add more Aragonite without much danger?If your sandbed is not that old that sand sifter will soon starve and even if it was very mature due to the small size of your sandbed it will soon deplete it's food. If you see it starting to go downhill or its limbs disolving return it back to your LFS.
As your bioload grows your skimmer will pull out more and if the skimmer is new it takes a while for them to break in before they start producing good amounts of skimmate prepare yourself for the smell when cleaning a skimmer haha
Thanks for the 411, Mart. My sand bed is quite shallow.The problem you have is the size of the bed most LFS forget to tell people how much they actually eat a single sandsifter can easily munch it's way through a 5ft sandbed !
You should not really see the sand sifter once it goes under the sand if you see it ontop a lot it's hungry a looking for food keep an eye on him.
I personally would not go adding anything to a settled tank that is maturing.
I see, I've decided to return the sand star. I'll also be relocating the tank to a more suitable location. Question...I have always wanted a starfish, but I have seen so many die... many only seem to last a few months and few seem to make it over a year
+1 marty post - If you see it starting to go downhill or its limbs dissolving return it back to your LFS.
A few RS members do have luck with them... but from post I have read, I would say the great majority lose them, they starve to death.
see what others think...