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Old 03-15-2001, 03:15 PM   #1
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starfish lost its legs


hi all.
in my upheval of the tank one of my starfish has lost half of its legs, they came off when i put him back in over a period of about 3 hours.
will they ever grow back, if so how lonk does it take.
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Old 03-16-2001, 10:29 PM   #2
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Sorry to hear that

I have never taken note at the shop of how long it's taken brittles or serpents to regrow limbs when they've lost them due to shipping stress. (Might be an interesting little bit of info, maybe I should track them on a graph ) It's certainly not a fast process, I'd say you're looking at a couple of months anyway. I'd make sure that your star gets some food where he can reach it easily to help him have energy for regeneration.

One thing I have noticed was that the serpent stars not only seem to suffer less loss of limb, they also seem to grow back a little quicker, but that's definitely an unscientific observation!

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