Star Fish

[Trevor Robertson]

Okay well about two weeks ago I went out and purchased a super cool looking star fish. It had some cool blue tiped legs and some dark spots on it. Well it did very well in my tank for the last two weeks although I have not seen it for the last day or two but I though nothing of it as it would often hang out behind a rock or something that I could not see.

Well on Saturday we had some people over to watch the big our door game so my wife wanted me to cut down the green culurpa that is over taking one side of my tank so as I was cutting it back I noticed the tip of my star fish in the middle of it all so I though cool found ya (thought that I was playing hide and seek with it there for a minute) well untill I tried to move him out of the way so that I could continue to cut away and I noticed that it was the not the star that I though but only one leg of it. So I though oh shit dead star well that blows, well I for some reason did not remove the leg from the tank but left it on the sand bed and about two hours later (after the Mega stars game) I found this one leg is now on my glass! Well odd. So my question is two fold...

will this star be able to grow back to how it was and I may have two now
or
will it slowly die and if so will my big mean bristel stars eat it?

Thanks, PS I have not seen the rest of the star still so who knows.