Red star fish dying?

[jlabeaume]

Is this guy slowing dying or someone eating him? I have had him for awhile and he's still moving.

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[Nanook]

Looks like a new tank without adequate food source. Even in the most mature tanks many of these invertebrates die a slow death of starvation

 

[Fiver]

Starfish are just so incredibly hard to keep alive. Brittle and serpent stars are better, even if they do hide a lot more.

Sorry, and good luck.

 

[jlabeaume]

Is there anything to feed him? He lived in the overflow for months before. Thought about putting back there again.

 

[clevername]

oddly enough the overflow might have been better because thats where all the nutrient rich water goes.

Not saying put him back there, because that really isnt solving the problem. I have has a HUGE blue Linka star for 6 months now and will definitely give him back when he starts to die.

 

[rkpetersen]

It's stressed and that's why it's losing the tips of it's arms. Could be starvation, could be some recent acute change in water conditions. Not predation. I've actually had sea stars ordered online arrive this way already losing tissue in the bag, even with overnight shipping, and fromias like this guy seem to be especially sensitive. That said, sometimes they will lose part of an arm, you think they're gonna die, but then they seem to recover and regrow the arm; I've got one right now that lost about half of one arm, but now the tip of that arm is healed up although still shorter than the others.