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05/17/2019, 11:15 AM | #1 |
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new ritteri anemone
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I jsut got one 3 days ago. It seems to be doing well. Attached very quickly to it's rock. It's stomach is still party exposed, tentacles pretty full, partly sticky. **When I feed "him" clam bits or little mysis, they stick briefly then they are released, so nothing is eaten. What should I do? Thanks |
05/17/2019, 11:51 AM | #2 |
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Here are the pics of it
here are the pics of it. *The right side seems completely pulled in, as if the anemone ends at the side of the mouth.
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05/17/2019, 01:06 PM | #3 |
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Feeding 3 days after introducing to your tank is a little too soon. It doesn’t seem fully settled yet. Wait for a couple of more days. Monitor water carefully.
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Now it's looking like it's just not doing good on that right side Last edited by CTaylor; 05/17/2019 at 01:25 PM. |
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On the pictures it looks almost like half of it is missing, as if someone tried to frag it. BTW, you might want to have a moderator move this to the Anemone and Clownfish forum.
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Can this be normal since I got it a few days ago? PS I dont know how to let a mod know to ask to move the thread. TY |
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I think it's the shipping that did it. I didnt get it until 4 pm. LA used to have delivery by 10 am. But I realized now they have by end of day. The acro that came along didnt look great either, with almost bleached tips. \
Here's the ritteri now. Coudl it be my lighting? It can bleach acros even when they are on bottom of the tank. kessil ap700 and two kessil a600 one on either end of a 48" wide tank. 22" tall. But he woudl move if the lighting was too much, right? |
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Shipping duration can have an impact, but is not necessarily the primary cause. I had a gigantea arrive from LA that looked like a ball of slime at first but recovered within a day and never deflated again. I don't think it was sick but I treated it anyway just for good measure. The bleaching can be the light but is generally the stress and the infection. Your magnifica is definitely sick. And from the looks of it it has a good chunk of its body missing. All good reasons to contact LA right away and report this - and don't let them tell you that the anemone needs time to recover and acclimate, this one is sick and will not get better without treatment.
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Deflation cycles are common with these animals, and almost invariably fatal without treatment. Mag may well look ok in the morning but end up like hammered dog poop by the afternoon. Soon enough it will just be a pile of goo. Fish Flox is cipro BTW.
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I agree with ca1ore and ThRoewer. I would treat him ASAP using the protocol here.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2271385 Best of luck.
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05/20/2019, 04:39 PM | #14 |
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Hi TY
But the ritteri is ripped, chunk out of it. I dont see how a treatment will unrip this huge gash. :-/ |
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That's a shame, sorry to hear about that.
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05/20/2019, 08:24 PM | #16 |
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me too !.. I dont know how it can get ripped or a chunk out of it in shipping. It didnt happen in my tank I'm 90% sure, as it remained in same spot the entire time through now. It opened up more and more, but looking back, never in that area. Either it was sent to me that way or UPS mishandled it. I just can't see how that damage could have happened that quickly from when it left LAquaria (if it happened after) to when that first pic I posted was. THough it may have been a small defect that just grew as well.. But I dont see it as starting in my tank. (I'm being defensive ... but also making sense :-D.. I think !
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Have you reached out to LA to see if there's anything they can do for you?
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Have you started treating it? As others recommended, if you haven't started you should start ASAP.
Even if it's ripped, it should still not deflate. I've ripped a couple of magnifica and gigantea and they don't deflate. I've had a magnifica partially split and ended up cutting the two parts to finish the division and neither half deflated. Deflation happens when a nem is trying to expel something, be it waste or dead zoox, or when it doesn't like water conditions (high nitrates, phosphates, etc.). With magnifica in particular, I've noticed that they deflate sections of their tentacles, and it moves in a circular motion around the oral disk. Unlike BTAs that deflate frequently and quick bounce back, magnifica rarely deflate. Multiple deflations is a sure sign of a problem.
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Neither good flow, light, or water quality will get this anemone over the infection and back to health. What it needs is treatment with Cipro. And that ASAP! I would also inform Life Aquaria that the anemone is sick and that you are treating it with antibiotics. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
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but it does have that gash and tear in it.. it looks horrible right now esp with the tear and gash. how will cipro fix that? (I know they were wrong though lol ) |
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It would be like a human with a disease and also an arm ripped off. You would still medicate to treat the disease even though it won't do anything for the arm. Treating for the illness won't necessarily help with the flesh trauma, but it will give the nem a better shot at recovering if it isn't also fighting a sickness. Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk Last edited by smilinteddy; 05/24/2019 at 01:15 PM. |
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In my experience, the rip won't kill it, but the infection surely will. I've had a couple of nems have a run in with a MP40. I simply removed the ripped/dead tissue and the nem recovered on its own. Both times.
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crap.. i just have fish sulfa forte. I do not have cipro. I somehow thought the sulfa forte = cipro
Edit.. the protocol says Sulfa forte can be used // the ritteri looks like a mess. I dont see how it can recover. see pic in next post It's 10 days since I got it, so at least 10 days it's been sick and with tear/gash. Last edited by CTaylor; 05/24/2019 at 02:35 PM. |
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pic of ritteri now friday 5/24
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