Orange Star DEAD?!?!?

[megatron]

Hi folks,

i picked up a fine looking orange star on Sun...

placed the bag containing the orange star into my tank for over an hr

to match the temp between LFS water and my tank water.

after 1 hr... i added small portion of water from my tank into the bag

to avoid any salinity shock..continued this for 5 rounds.

after the lengthy procedure, i finally intro the orange star into my tank..

the fellow looks pretty ok in the tank... started moving abt the tank..

climbing all over the place... finally settling near my hydro flo

sad to say... i found the orange star limped at the bottom of the tank against the LR. think my cleaner shrimp aldy made a meal out of the orange star...

did i make a mistake somewhere? my other 2 sand stars are doing very well and i did not go thru the lengthy procedure before introducing them into the tank..

I had the impression that these orange stars are pretty hardy... so very sad to see it die on the 2nd day...

any reefer can advise what i did incorrectly?

many thanks!

[beelim]

Sigh... Your account is somehow similar to mine... In fact, on the first occassion, my orange star died due to high temp (haven bought a chiller). On the second ocassion, i bought another one but still dies due to high temp... Thus, i suspect that it could be due to high temp...

Have you actually saw your cleaner shrimp haven its meal on your orange star?? Personnally, i felt that it could be due to high temp...

Good luck to you!