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Thread: Sand Sifting Star lost a limb....

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10-02-2007, 07:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
bbebber Plankton Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Albemarle, NC Age: 23 Posts: 2 Karma: 1	Sand Sifting Star lost a limb.... Hello all. I have had a sand sifting sea star in my tank for going on 2 years now and have never had any problems from him. Every once in a while he'll come out from the sand and climb on the glass. He did this Sunday night but had actually got one of his legs caught in a power head. (We had taken the filter off to clean it) It completely chopped off half of his leg and I thought he was dead b/c his other legs were all curled up around his body. I felt absolutley horrible that I let this happen to my star fish so I let him be for a few minutes until I could bare to take him out. Later on I had noticed that he moved down the glass and was actually still alive, and now he is actually back down in the sand as he usually is. Now I have heard that star fish will grow their legs back if they lose one, Is this also true for the sand sifting star? _________ BBEBBER 46gl bow front Yellow Tang, Female Bird Wrasse, Tomato Clown, Black Damsel, Large ocean crab, Sandsifting Starfish with lots of little babies - 30lbs LR and a deep sand bed with 10gl refugium

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