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04/26/2018, 08:07 PM | #1 |
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H Mag looking poor
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My H Mag went through heavy cipro treatment about 6 month ago. Recovered well but hasn't recovered color yet. The last couple of months it is not looking like before, it's a bit shrunk and not fully extended. Here is a pic. I haven't fed her in a while to avoid stressing her even more. Any ideas? Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
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04/26/2018, 09:00 PM | #2 |
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I'd squirt mysis towards it a couple times a week, that will feed w/out stress.
It looks pretty bleached from what I can tell in those pics. What lights are you running?
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04/27/2018, 11:11 AM | #3 |
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It definitely should have regained color in six months. It may just not have any Zooxanthellae left so it can’t recover it’s color. If you have another healthy anemone you can cut off a tentacle, stuff it in a piece of shrimp, and feed it to the mag. It looks like the anemone is declining due to lack of nutrition to me.
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04/27/2018, 11:27 AM | #4 |
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Nutrition is achieved two ways, either light, or foods.
If they are bleached, they lack the zoo they need to process light into usable energy, so then they require spot feeding, and small easily digestable foods like mysis are best in bringing back to health w/ out stressing it. Once it regains health and color, light alone is all they need.
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04/28/2018, 02:14 AM | #5 |
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Thank you all. I was feeding her pieces of shrimp and krill. I'll change to mysis.
One question, how you spot feed her the mysis so it doesn't go floating before she is able to eat it? Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
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04/28/2018, 09:03 AM | #6 |
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A turkey baster will work, but they do sell spot feeding tools
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turn off all flow, feed the clowns first and away from the anemone at the same time, blast mysis into it with a turkey baster.
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05/14/2018, 07:51 AM | #8 |
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Thank you all!!.
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05/15/2018, 09:43 AM | #9 |
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What are your water parameters, including nitrate?
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05/15/2018, 11:41 AM | #10 |
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Well, I went in to buy a cheap condi to a local pet store and ended up buying a beautiful small RBTA (orange and green) they had on sale. It is hard to resist once you are in these places.
My plan is to let it grow a bit and pinch a piece of tentacle to feed it to the H Mag. Question, will it hurt the RBTA if I pull a piece of tentacle? About the water params, I don't recall them exactly (I have the log at home) but I checked them last weekend and everything was on param and fairly stable. Nitrates were at 5ppm aprox.
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Patiently slow feed like this will get their health up even if they don't recover their coloration. I have so many anemones, that I do transplant on them fairly early.
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BTA tentacles will not stick to food to the point where you can rip it off so you have to cut it off with a pair of scissors.
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If there is any beige or color at all it should come back just by spot feeding small foods.
I've brought back a number that were pretty badly bleached.
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