Sand Sifting Starfish - Archaster typicusSand Sifting Starfish (Archaster typicus) The Sand Sifting Starfish, Archaster typicus, is a peaceful marine sea star valued for its natural burrowing and substrate turning behaviour. Also known as the Sand Sifting Sea Star, Sand Star or Common Sea Star, this Indo Pacific echinoderm spends much of its time moving through soft sand in search of detritus, decaying organic matter and tiny invertebrates. It is reef safe and useful in mature aquariums with

Ocellated Scooter Dragonet

This species needs a soft sand bed

although it will eat tiny copepods and other microcrustaceans as part of its natural diet

is renowned for its vibrant

The Porcupine Puffer

Canthigaster leoparda

the bio film or ‘bacterial mulm’ can then be exported via physical agitation of the media within a reactor to make way for further bacterial growth

Do not add to a new

The Banded Cat Shark

It does not nip corals and is well suited to peaceful reef aquariums

caves and shaded rockwork

Adults are blue with diagonal narrow yellow lines