anyone have a sand dollar?

[seatrueblue]

Originally Posted by prow

was their tank big or was it running inline with other tanks? you maybe the only one, lol. if there is enough food supplied is the main thing. for me they just eat up lots of stuff and take away food for other things i want in my tank.

It was a big tank, same size or bigger than my 120..I can't really tell because my 120 is a tall tank and the tank they have is a long tank. The tank the sand dollar was in, wasn't connected to any other tank. Their sand wasn't even sand ..more like coral rubble and not even an inch deep.

[plecosword]

Sand dollars? I have never heard of such thing, they look pretty cool

[vdituri]

I've only seen them once for sale locally. And at the time I had a sandsifter star and the LFS guy was kind enough to tell me that there would not be enough food for both. I think he even recommended 100+g tank. Which is what is a recommended min for a sandsifter star so that there is enough life living in the sand for them to eat without depleting it 100% then starving to death.

Cool critters though.

[lcstorc]

Very cool. I've never seen them for sale.
Keep us updated and more pics would be great.

[seatrueblue]

This one actually wasn't for sale, until they decided to tear down their display tank to set up a bigger one. I just so happened to be there at the right time. This thing wipes my sand like its a magic eraser..I'm loving it other than it running into my heliofungia and hammer coral..oh well. Sea biscuit or sand dollar..what ever you want to call it..its really cool.

[SJS]

Originally Posted by plecosword

Sand dollars? I have never heard of such thing, they look pretty cool

Hey Mario - check out Laguna beaches, we have lots of them around here. They are flat and round about 2 1/2 inches - when they are dead they are white with star in the middle. When alive they are purplish. West coast types probably need colder water. I have seen then while scuba diving, and our water is mid 60's.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by prow

growing up i was always messing with the sea life. we would collect sand dollars all the time. i remeber my aunt telling me about the doves and angels inside them. she told me, if you get one and break it open and find 5 little white birds that are unbroken inside, its said there are angles looking out for you FYI most have 3 or 4 birds, the ones i got to anyway, many many, we spend many summer days hunting for them.
the little white birds are called Doves of Peace and look like this;


here is the legend as it goes....

Very cool Prow! I love that story~

[tippMANn98]

that second pic was better, you have a sea biscuit....sand dollars are flat:
very very similar, just size, I also have heard them call the biscuits dollars:
Biscuit:

Dollar:


just keep an eye on it...make sure if it starts looking really really pale, might want to take action before something bad happens

[prow]

Originally Posted by Frankie

Very cool Prow! I love that story~

thanks, you know what? i never even knew there was a actual legend. just did a quick search to get the real name of those birds and found the legend. it feels like i am reliving those days running around on the beach digging up sand crabs hunting down those elusive sand dollars and terrorizing sand sharks. anything in the sand was fair game at 8 or 9 years old. now i have moved on and everything in the water is fair game i have to ask my aunt if she knew about the legend back then.