The Orange Linckia Starfish belongs to the echinoderms, which has tube feet specialized for crawling and preying on sessile animals. We suggest you to keep plenty of live rocks, where it will be found most of the time. The Orange Linckia Starfish is comparatively smaller than other closely related species and that make an adorable petite species in your reef tank. It possesses an amazing regenerative ability and are able to grow new or individuals by fragmentation of the existing Linckia. The Orange Linckia Starfish should never be housed with the parasitic snail such as Thyca crystalline because that might kill it, and should be removed immediately if is found under the same. The Orange Linckia Starfish is very sensitive to any changes in water parameters, and hence can act as a good indicator to water quality. It might get attacked by hermit crabs, true crabs, and some fishes, and thus should not be housed with the same. Once established, the Orange Linckia Starfish does well and is quite hardy that makes a very good addition to any marine aquarium. It reproduces by asexual method, and undergoes self-amputation, where it sheds one or more arms at various positions, which later grows into a new individual. The Orange Linckia is considered an omnivore but the diet mostly consists of bacterial surface films and sponges which are usually present in an established tanks. It is completely reef safe and does not bother any corals instead feeds on live rocks covered with algae. The Orange Linckia Starfish needs a careful acclimatization period of four hour at the time of getting it introduced in the tank. It is very sensitive to fluctuating water parameters and eventually starves to death unless given proper nutrition.