Any advice on seafans?

[Jacobsal91]

Hear these are extremly difficult to keep, What exactly is needed to care for these wonderful creatures?

 

[Flreefer]

Good water movement and basically a constant drip of live phytoplankton. Also any algae getting on them will kill them off quickly.

 

[Jacobsal91]

Constant drip? How can one pull that off? And is lighting a factor at all?

 

[Flreefer]

Some are photosynthetic, some are not, but most collected for aquariums are photosynthetic.
Typical reef lighting would be fine.
The drip of Phyto would be the optimal situation, but very difficult. It would require a doser, pulling from a refrigerated source of Phyto. Feeding 3-4 times a week with a blend of Phyto and a mash of typical home-made fish/coral food (clam, shrimp, fish, oyster egg, etc.) would probably work.
Brisk wave-like water movement is also necessary.
And no algae formation on it at all.
Overall, they are very difficult to keep for any length of time.

 

[Jacobsal91]

They are expensive too arent they? They are so beautiful.. I need to really think before i buy one

 

[Cfox]

 

[Jacobsal91]

Wow amazing, what do you do to keep algae off it?

 

[Cfox]

Just keep the water quality perfect !!!!!!! and feed phyto once a day

 

[Jacobsal91]

My tank is NOT ready for that yet... Only
Up and running for 3 months. I would love one eventually. Can you frag them if
You really
Wanted to?

 

[Cfox]

I wouldn't frag it just because they are very sensitive I don't believe they would recover but that's just me.

 

[Jacobsal91]

Personally would probably never do that to any creatures but i was curious to know if it
Was possible