My red starfish doesn't look to happy. It's arms are turned up at the end and when I look at his underside all of his tenticles are retracted except for the ones on the end of its arms. There is also something either covering his mouth or coming out of it. This stuff appears to look like a bunch of brown hemroids.
It has had turned up tips for about a week, but the past two days he has not been moving from the spot he it at.
I did a water test last Saturday and here are the results:
NH3/NH4 = 0.1 mg/L
NO2 = 0.1 mg/L
NO3 = 5 mg/L
PH = 8.2
Ca = 540 ppm
Alk = High 130 mg/L
PO4 = High >1<2
Salinity = 1.024
I put 1/2 a cup of SeaChem PhosGuard to reduce the PO4, because I heard that high phosphates can harm inverts.
I am going to do a water change, but would like to know if there is anything else that I can do to help the starfish out.
Thanks
John
Draper UT
30 Gallon
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