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Posted	red starfish
11-09-2006 21:24 by craig	has any one here had a red star fish that has damaged a arm mine has damaged its harm how can i tell if he is going to survive he isnt moving as much as usuall is this normal when they are injured hope someone can help
11-09-2006 21:51 by wayne	i know someone who cuts thier arms off every month(one at a timwe , )and feeds it to his harliquin shrimp, and the arm starts to grow back quiet quick , if it looks like its rotting id get a razor blade and lance it off,
11-09-2006 22:36 by craig	thats well harsh wayne why he do that it dont look like rotting i think personlly starfish been on sand and hermit crabs had a go at eating
11-09-2006 22:43 by wayne	because harliquin shrimps eat starfish as 95 % of thier diet
11-09-2006 22:48 by craig	does it stay still when he does that whilst they grow
13-09-2006 09:33 by Alan	How long have you had the starfish? If its only a week or so you may have introduced it to quickly and caused osmotic shock of sorts it doesn't kill starfish quickly they basically just fall apart. If you have had the thing long term I wouldn't worry to much I have had a serpeant star lose a leg it harassed a clownfish once to much and the clown fish bit it off. That has grown back. I have a sand sifting star that the serpeant star took a short term liking to he ate one of its legs that has grown back. I also have a large blue linkia that lost a leg in a rock fall that has grown back as well. Prognosis is good if you have had the starfish for a while. You must use RO water though as starfish are very sensitive to heavy metals and one symptom of heavy metal damage is the whole thing starts to fall apart normally starts with a limb.
13-09-2006 15:51 by craig	hiya i have had the star fish a good 3 mths at least i do use ro water i personally think a hemit crab has had a nibble at it
14-09-2006 10:13 by Alan	If your suspisions are correct craig and you water quality is good it should make a full recovery it does take time though.

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