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Ok I posted three photos of my sick starfish in my profile. I am not sure how this works but I assume anyone can go to my profile and look at them. He is in pretty bad shape but he just keeps going.

Over several months this starfish has gradually suffered deterioration of his legs. I have another starfish that is fine and other invertebrates doing well.

I finally was able to get a good photo of my sick starfish but I can't figure out how to upload it to this reply. Sorry to be so dense but it is asking me for the URL of my photo and I don't have a URL for it. It is in a file in my computer. If someone can tell me how to upload it I will post it...

We know there is a problem but haven't been able to isolate it. We have had coral and anemones die, and a few fish along the way. We have had the water analyzed several times, replaced all the bulbs with new. As far as I know no one has used any chemicals to clean the glass. Water changes are...

Good advice. I will have to try to get into my memory banks and see what we might have done differently. I can't remember if it coincides exactly with the starfish decline but one thing I did about the time that this started was replace an urchin that died. Don't know if there is any connection...

The water quality in the tank has been pretty stable every time we have checked it. We have done that two or three times since the starfish arms started getting shorter. No exposure to air either. I can do another water analysis but in the past that has not seemed to be a problem.

No. never been moved, picked up, or exposed to air.

I have a starfish (not sure what kind), that has been in our 100 gallon tank for over a year. He has done fine until about two months ago when his legs started getting shorter. It looked like the tips were either being eaten off or rotting off. Now all of the tips are losing skin and showing the...