why is my linkia shrinking??

who dey

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ive had my linkia for 8 mths in my 3year old reef and i noticed he's been shrinking?? he is now kinda curled up in my sand bed and it's a bit confusing?? Any ideas? Any recommended meds if available??
thanks
 

fedukeford

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What size tank? its sounds like it might be starving to death, they need a minimum of 100 lbs of well esablished live rock
Feduke
 

miaheatlvr

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Originally Posted by fedukeford
What size tank? its sounds like it might be starving to death, they need a minimum of 100 lbs of well esablished live rock
Feduke
I was going to ask if you suppliment his diet.
 

lion_crazz

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You can't really feed a linkia star other than supplying it with a ton of food off of your live rock and perfect water quality. They would be the first two issues to examine.
 

spanko

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"This animal is very (95+ % IME) often doomed from the retailer to aquarists... having suffered too much damage and neglect in the process of collection, holding, shipping... Look for damage (ex. right) and avoid such obviously poor specimens. In the wild this is an algae, bacteria, detritus feeder... that needs space (hundreds of gallons) and mulm (muck, dirt, call it what you will, on the bottom of its system to survive. My advice, look to other genera, species of seastars."
Copied from article by Bob Fenner.
 
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