Chocolate chip Starfish died in my sump....

[crazydante23]

My wife has "had" 6 chocolate chips in her tank. I threw my six line puffer in there overnight. I guess the puffer was hungry and started to rip off legs. She decided to throw them in my sump and they all started to die and rot in there. I cleaned up the mess in there but my water is still cloudy and corals are bleaching. I checked nitrites, nitrates, Ph, alk, They are good. ammonia is at .25. I did a water change and I'll see what happens tomorrow. Anyways does anybody know if chocolate chip release toxins when they die?
Time to go to work.

 

[EyeReef]

never heard of a starfish releasing toxin. 6 dead chocolate chips starfish will prob produce a large amount of ammonia. Not sure what your tank size is, but I would do waterchanges until water is fine again

 

[nahtanoj]

i had a chocolate chip desintigrate due to damsel attack. my tank kinda went out of whack for a week or so i did 2 water change outs and all went back to normal.

 

[crazydante23]

I thought star's always grew their legs back, instead mine just turned to mush. Im gonna do another water change today and retest my water. Stupid starfish.

 

[Bebo77]

dude that sucks....

 

[Xycron]

i had a choclate chip die, nothing happened to the tank. it was f/o though. it was my first tank ever.