Blue starfish help!!

[oshanickreef]

Hey I noticed my blue star has this red dot of desegregating tissue and the starfish itself almost looks deflated. Any advice on curing this or what it may be?

Thanks

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[mcgyvr]

Good luck the survival rate of stars like that is really bad..
Its likely just headed towards starving/wasting away..

 

[j.falk]

Yep. Once they start disintegrating, you might as well take it out so it doesn't end up polluting your water. Blue linckias fall apart quickly and are considered difficult to keep.

 

[ClownReef®]

Wont last too long. A few hours probably.

 

[oshanickreef]

It seems like it's still alive. It barely moves tho. Also I don't see its little feet stringies and the wound may be getting bigger. I'm leaving town tomorrow so I don't think I'm going to risk it. Here are pics

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[j.falk]

Pull it out...that thing is definitely soon to be dead / dying.

 

[ClownReef®]

It's dead.

 

[oshanickreef]

Welp I took it out. I think it got exposed to air because us have an auto feeder and when feed mode is on my display water level drops a couple inches and the Star was always hanging at the surface on the glass.


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[loren_gregory]

Starfish Dying

Starfish Dying

I had several starfish die like that. There is apparently a disease attacking the starfish which causes them to waste away. Unfortunately, it spread to my sand star as well and killed it.

 

[Mcdurbin67]

I had one for 2 years and it was always putting an arm out of the water so I do not believe the rumors about allowing them to touch air are true. It eventually died when I had a week long power failure due to a hurricane. All that survived was a cardinal fish we now call Pope.


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