Help! Serpent starfish disintergrated!!

[odellous]

HELP! SERPENT STARFISH DISINTERGRATED!! woke up one morning and notice the limbs of my starfish being chewed on my my gobie. didnt know what happened. all parameters seem fine. later on, all of the serpent starfishes were dismantled, missing limbs! 6 all together. heres the kicker. everything else in tank is doing fine. no problems with fish, crabs, snails or shrimp. has this happened to anyone out there?? if so, what was the cause and what did you do? please help.

 

[BalaShark]

Do you have any CCS in there?

 

[odellous]

whats CCS?

 

[BalaShark]

Chocolate chip starfish

 

[quaddity]

Starfish just don't do well in the home aquarium. I had my red Fromia star disintegrate like that. Was fine for weeks, stripping the live rock to white where it was eating and then within a day disintegrated.

 

[odellous]

no chocolate starfishes. just a few reef fishes, snails, shrimp, crabs and nudibranches.