Urgent!!

[kristine bean]

My blue linkia starfish moved to the corner of the tank late last nght and was still there this morning.....He had like a couple brown, tenticle looking type things coming out of the middle of him and hanging down. I just returned home and now theres a lot of that hanging down and he still hadn't moved.

Does it sound like he's dead and like, expelling his insides?? I'm very upset because I don't know whats happening. I hope someone else has a linkia or another kind of star so that they could tell me whats going on.

ps water, salinity, gravity, and temp tests were all what they should be.

 

[kristine bean]

n/m. I buried him in the backyard. i almost threw up the smell was overwhelming.... I haven't had anything die before. Whats the next step? I just changed the water this weekend but should i do it again because something died?

Oh well nobody will read this in time.....I will look on the internet for help.

 

[Adrinal]

I heard they were hard to keep. sorry to hear the loss. If you are running a reef I would not over water change. You don't want the chemistry to change too much too fast.

 

[Landlocked]

I can't give much advice here. I heard that they were for expert reef keepers only, so I wouldn't know. It sounds as if its stomach was hanging out.