Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

No but a white sand sifting starfish would stir sand, they submerse in the sand and come back up often to the top. The do major sand sifting from what i remember from having one.

But i thought that Sand Sifting Stars, eat micro fauna, and will die after time in a home aquarium?

Does anyone know how i can raise my calcium? I dose with Kent Marine's Liquid Calcium but i wont go up, it stays at 360.

on the sant sifting stars, I have tried two, and haven't had any luck... as a bonus, they disentegrate and are impossible to remove in one piece after they die

On the calcium, just read up here or at reef central, it's a LONG topic, there are plenty of ways to do it... a good start would be to research abotu kalkwasser, you can buy bags of it under the guise of pickling lime, at walmart, and drip it into the tank after you've mixed it with water.

I use Kent's Turbo Calcium to raise it to 450 and then use kalk and a calcium reactor to maintain it. The liquid calcium is calcium chloride and there is some debate about how much it can be used.

I have some pickling lime (Ms Wages) i used it to get rid of my Aiptasia problem,So you want me to drip this stuff i, and it will raise my calcium?

I've got a sand sifting star and It does a good job keeping the sand looking clean. I've had mine for about a year now.

New_Noob wrote:I have some pickling lime (Ms Wages) i used it to get rid of my Aiptasia problem,So you want me to drip this stuff i, and it will raise my calcium?

Yes it will, but very slowly.

Ok so i look uo drippind andthis is what i found:

Slow drip (1 drop per second)
Mix the Pickling lime with my top off water.
1 tablespoon per gallon of dripping water
I can drip anytime because i have a refugium with a 24/7 light on it
Drip into a high flow area


for all you kalk experts, is there anything else i should do before i start?