sandsifting starfish

My ss star is having a problem.  I have had him for two years now with no trouble. Now he is loosing his legs a bit at a time.   Will said he may not be getting enough food.  Carl posted about using an anti fungal cream.  I'll try that and I also took him out of the main tank and put him into a container with frozen phyto to see if he would eat that.  Anyone have any ideas to help me not loose him?  I feed pretty heavy for the fish and coral and only have a few snails but a lot of crabs in the tank.  There are also some bristle worms.  I don't have anything else that moves through the sand.  I lost the jawfish a couple of months ago.  I don't general see many copopods in or on the sand.

Mark Peterson wrote: Sand Sifting Stars are murder on sand beds.

Why do you say that they are murder on sandbeds when I  have read and been told that they help the sand bed? As to what I have been told they clear out dead spots and help keep things running right.

Edited by Sand Bubbler