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07/10/2019, 08:14 PM
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Blue starfish help!!
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?
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07/11/2019, 04:17 AM
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Good luck the survival rate of stars like that is really bad..
Its likely just headed towards starving/wasting away..
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07/11/2019, 06:24 AM
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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.
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07/11/2019, 07:40 AM
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Wont last too long. A few hours probably.
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07/11/2019, 03:55 PM
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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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07/11/2019, 04:17 PM
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Pull it out...that thing is definitely soon to be dead / dying.
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07/11/2019, 07:20 PM
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It's dead.
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07/11/2019, 07:28 PM
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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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07/13/2019, 10:44 AM
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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.
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07/13/2019, 05:55 PM
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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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