View Full Version : Linkia Starfish Leg Decay help
KisselDanny
07/02/2009, 10:58 PM
Ive had a blue Linkia starfish for about 6 months now and one of its legs has had dead spots on it for most of that time. It dosent really use that leg. Is there anything I can do to help it? Would cutting the dead Leg off possibbly save the rest of it?
KisselDanny
07/03/2009, 04:52 PM
Anyone?
mcarroll
07/04/2009, 09:29 PM
My experience is that this condition is pretty much always fatal, and nearly universal in newly captive specimens. :-(
-Matt
KisselDanny
07/04/2009, 09:43 PM
Thanks for the reply. Not quite what I wanted to hear tho.
KisselDanny
07/04/2009, 09:49 PM
Just read this reply by Koshmar In another thread if anyone has the same problem.
"If it is a localized infection, say on one arm, you can take a clean razor blade, cut off the arm and apply lugol's iodine to the wound. The iodine will hault infection most of the time. Just a drop or two, obviously out of water. The wound should ceal up and the star will make a recovery most likely. If it is not a localized infection, the chances of survival are very bleek."
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