9 yr old Haddoni sick-help please?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9508522#post9508522 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by traveller7
I don't think a bacteria infected anemone would be spawning in reduced cycles.
I do think a stressed S. haddoni might.

Mine have always been upset with pH swings, I saw a post of the ranges 8.0 to 8.4, are they the maximum?

How do the anemones look overnight?
Have you by chance changed salt mix lately or opened a new batch?

fwiw: My anemones seem to be fans of small consistent water changes or none at all. Big water changes definitely bother them for a week+.
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I'm with Scott.
I still don't think this anemone is suffering from a bacterial infection. This has been an ongoing problem with the haddoni anemone for several weeks now and some of your other anemones have recovered without any treatment.
I'd ride it out. Keep the water as stable as possible and see what happens to the saddle. JMO
 
Still looks terrible but-
It is sticky again, and ate some fresh shrimp Sunday. First time it has eaten in several weeks.
I am going to try some more shrimp tomorrow.
 
May not be the issue at all but I remember reading a while back about nems trapping gas/oxygen and it causing these bubble type eruptions inside the nem.

Something simular to what is called gas bubble disease in fish (though it isnt a disease at all).

If I remember right it was an article from one of the people like Fenner or Shink over at wetweb media.

May be worth digging up at that sight or dropping an email to Fenner and ask.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9585493#post9585493 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dberlin
Still looks terrible but-
It is sticky again, and ate some fresh shrimp Sunday. First time it has eaten in several weeks.
I am going to try some more shrimp tomorrow.
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what are your water params now- specifically alkalinity and ph?
how do you supplement calcium and alk?
 
No big changes
Alk 9.0
Calcium 430
Po4 0
NO3 0
NO2 0
NH4 0
pH ranging from 7.9 to 8.3
temp 81
Salinity 1.026

I use a calcium reactor, and auto top-off with limewater
The tank is very stable-I've been doing this a long time.
The gold flower anemone has reproduced. Baby showed up several weeks ago and is now big enough to be sure thats what it is.
Cardinals are having babies. Duncans have several new heads, caulastreas have several new heads, plerogyra simplex has several new heads, Monti's growing well with great polyp extension. Gorgonians doing great and growing.
All fish,shrimp,brittlestars, asterinas, snails,bristleworms, pods, mysid shrimp, featherdusters, mini brittlestars, all great.
 
Sure you thought of it but what was the last organism added to the system before the reaction and how long before? Any other corals grow rapidly before the reaction? Try removing them.

Could you withdrawl fluid with a syringe and test it for copper or other contaminents?

Also, in a lot of animals increased breeding/spawning is a reation to stress to ensure survival.
 
The puckering up and spawnings might be a reaction to stress.
It might be a reaction to the large feedings that took place beforehand. Nothing looks like a glaring culprit from here. Like I posted before, I'd ride this out. Maybe try feeding less and less often.
 
The large feedings were done on it's own. It got a 6" Pinktail Trigger.
Had it in it's gut for 2-3 days and spit out what was left. I never feed it anything larger than a shrimp, and it has ate those fine for 9 years without ever regurgitating any leftovers.
 
I should have also mentioned it's pretty normal to see a puckering up before, during and after an anemone spawns...
but I've never heard of such an extended period such as this case.
 
It's the big bubble protruding from its mouth that is the concern. That started and worsened quite a bit before it quit expanding completely.
I have had this guy for 9 years so I am very aware of what is normal for it, its basic requirements, and what it normally reacts to and how.
It has eaten again-chopped shrimp. No improvement on the bubble in its mouth.

I've pretty much given up on finding anyone who has any experience with something like this. No offense meant, but I was hoping someone would know what the condition is. I'll just do my best with it and see how it does-at least it's sticky again and feeding again. And the protrusion from its mouth has quit growing in size. That at least gives me some hope.
 
I'm not trying to hijack but my problem looks very similar to yours. I've had this sebae for about six months now. He was perfectly white when I got him and over the course of a few months he darkened up like he should.

For the last few weeks I have noticed the growth coming out of his mouth. Just once in a while at first but now it is pretty much all the time and much larger.

He still tries to eat - closes up on any food he catches. But it looks like he is shrinking as I don't think he actually gets any food in his mouth with that thing coming out of his mouth.

As with yours all my levels look good and nothing else in the tank seems to be affected.

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Let us know how it turn out. I hope he recover for you. Please let us know let us know what you try and if it did, or did not work.
I feed my anemone with food that I injected some selcon and some children liquid vitamin in it with a diabetes insuline syringe.
It may be that you anemone is deficient in some vitamin being in captivity for so long. I know that some expert recommended feeding fresh whole fish, gut and all to keep the Haddoni anemone in good shape.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9613228#post9613228 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DLBerlin
The large feedings were done on it's own. It got a 6" Pinktail Trigger.
Had it in it's gut for 2-3 days and spit out what was left. I never feed it anything larger than a shrimp, and it has ate those fine for 9 years without ever regurgitating any leftovers.
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i have a mini carpet that did the exact same thing, caught my Ich infected chromis and tried to eat him...as a mini the chromis was about 5x to big for his mouth...anywa he spit most of it out...and has since this large growth from it mouth...looks like a big fat lip..
 
Lets try to clear something up real quick....all these anemones that have this said "bubble-like" protrusion from their mouths...have these anemones been fed silver sides at any point...
 
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