Hole in Brittle Star

stang5_o2002 · 02/17/2007, 04:35 PM

Last night my girlfriend and I went up to Athens, Ohio to have dinner. We always stop at the two LFS up there that carry salt water stuff. I just wanted to get some snails fromt the lfs that i shop at all the time. We decided to stop at the other one that she used to work at. Its a sad excuse for a lfs. Bad management, horrible tanks filled with mojano and glass anemones. Not to mention dying corals and poor looking water. Well, my girlfriend spotted a brittle star in the damsel tank that had been there for several months. She decided to rescue it by buying it. We didnt look it over or anything. I had to bag it up cause the college kid that worked there was petrified of it and even dropped it on the counter trying to get it from the net to the bag. I just told him to watch out id take care of it. I picked the poor thing up and put it in the bag. When we got home i put it in the 5 gal that i use for a quarantine sometimes. Nothing in there but the evil damsel, some hermits, and snails. This is when i noticed the huge hole in the top of its disc. Anyway, is there anything i can do for it? Im gonna leave it where it is cause if its a disease, i dont want it spreading to my other stars. Any ideas on treatment?

Thanks!

dragonforce · 02/17/2007, 05:21 PM

These guys are built pretty solid, if you can just keep him well fed with excellent water quality he might recover.

stang5_o2002 · 02/17/2007, 06:14 PM

Thanks, i hope so. I've got two others in my 46 gal, and a serpent in the 16 gal. They've all been just fine. I've had the 2 brittles for a year now and they've been through some bad times with my tank. Nothing seems to bother them. I'll keep him fed and keep up on the wc in the 5 gal. Hopefully he'll pull through.

02/17/2007, 04:35 PM	#1
stang5_o2002 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southeastern Ohio Posts: 29	Hole in Brittle Star Last night my girlfriend and I went up to Athens, Ohio to have dinner. We always stop at the two LFS up there that carry salt water stuff. I just wanted to get some snails fromt the lfs that i shop at all the time. We decided to stop at the other one that she used to work at. Its a sad excuse for a lfs. Bad management, horrible tanks filled with mojano and glass anemones. Not to mention dying corals and poor looking water. Well, my girlfriend spotted a brittle star in the damsel tank that had been there for several months. She decided to rescue it by buying it. We didnt look it over or anything. I had to bag it up cause the college kid that worked there was petrified of it and even dropped it on the counter trying to get it from the net to the bag. I just told him to watch out id take care of it. I picked the poor thing up and put it in the bag. When we got home i put it in the 5 gal that i use for a quarantine sometimes. Nothing in there but the evil damsel, some hermits, and snails. This is when i noticed the huge hole in the top of its disc. Anyway, is there anything i can do for it? Im gonna leave it where it is cause if its a disease, i dont want it spreading to my other stars. Any ideas on treatment? Thanks!

02/17/2007, 05:21 PM	#2
dragonforce Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Laguna Niguel, 92677 Posts: 587	These guys are built pretty solid, if you can just keep him well fed with excellent water quality he might recover.

02/17/2007, 06:14 PM	#3
stang5_o2002 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southeastern Ohio Posts: 29	Thanks, i hope so. I've got two others in my 46 gal, and a serpent in the 16 gal. They've all been just fine. I've had the 2 brittles for a year now and they've been through some bad times with my tank. Nothing seems to bother them. I'll keep him fed and keep up on the wc in the 5 gal. Hopefully he'll pull through.