Hole in brittle star

stang5_o

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Last night my girlfriend and I went up to Athens, Ohio to have dinner. We always stop at the two LFS up there that carry salt water stuff. I just wanted to get some snails fromt the lfs that i shop at all the time. We decided to stop at the other one that she used to work at. Its a sad excuse for a lfs. Bad management, horrible tanks filled with mojano and glass anemones. Not to mention dying corals and poor looking water. Well, my girlfriend spotted a brittle star in the damsel tank that had been there for several months. She decided to rescue it by buying it. We didnt look it over or anything. I had to bag it up cause the college kid that worked there was petrified of it and even dropped it on the counter trying to get it from the net to the bag. I just told him to watch out id take care of it. I picked the poor thing up and put it in the bag. When we got home i put it in the 5 gal that i use for a quarantine sometimes. Nothing in there but the evil damsel, some hermits, and snails. This is when i noticed the huge hole in the top of its disc. Anyway, is there anything i can do for it? Im gonna leave it where it is cause if its a disease, i dont want it spreading to my other stars. Any ideas on treatment?
 

30-xtra high

Active Member
i know it isn't... but it kinda of looks like a mushroom on its head.
my guess would be "hole in the head", it is a disease that isn't spread to other anything, doesn't spread among tankmates. you should leave him in the 5, take out the hermits so they don't crawl on it. and buy some "stress zyme", or "stress coat", and squirt it right over the star's head so it oozes all over its head. it will restore it's slime coat allowing it to regrow skin, and "hole in the head" will be gone.
hope this helped, and hope he lives.
 
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