Blue Linckia questions

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Originally Posted by SanguinesDream

Am I doomed? Anyone with experience?

Maybe yes, maybe no :-)

The blue linckia is a very delicate starfish that does not easily tolerate sudden changes (oxygen level, pH, salinity, etc). This is why the fish store stressed that your tank be 1.025 because the LFS probably assumed that their tanks were 1.025. A very very very very slow drip acclimation period is recommended to help them adjust to your tank parameters. Or if the water that they are coming from is identical or near identical in parameters to your tank then you shouldn't need to acclimate for as long. Exposing them to air is typically not recommended but it isn't the end of the world. If the starfish is strong and healthy a brief spell out of the water shouldn't mean doom and gloom for your starfish so long as the the new water that they are going into has the same (or very close to the same) parameters as the water it came from.

Unfortunately there really isn't much you can do about it at this point. Your new starfish is going to do what he's going to do, and that is, either live or die.