Anemone problems

Neither am I now. It's the second full day that it isn't attached and hole still getting slightly larger and the mouth isn't there. It keeps releasing a white sort of slime and twisting around even with very low flow. Should I aid it compleat the process with a blade? It's been more than two weeks since it ate and now with no sign of a mouth it surly isn't close to eating...
 
I'm thinking the anamone is gone! And starting decomposing, the water is smelling rather bad and white slime is released from it occasionally, it's definitely not splitting. And a large hole instead of the mouth is a decomposing sign agree?
 
I think it is safe to assume it is gone. I've been following this thread from the beginning and I think that despite all your best efforts and Reefaholic's, the anemone might have been already at an advanced stage of sickness. On top of that, the fact that you couldn't treat it on time most probably contributed to its demise.
Magnifica's are very challenging to keep, they are at the top of the anemone difficulty scale along with Giganteas and to successfully keep them alive takes patience and experience. Don't get discouraged, I may suggest you start with an 'easier' species for some time and then move up the ladder.
IME once you decide to keep anemones, it is almost compulsory to keep an HT ready to be deployed immediately at the first signs of sickness and infection. I would also stock a variety of antibiotics, in case your specimen is resistant to ciprofloxacin. In this section of the forum there are several accounts by experts that successfully treated a variety of species.
 
:-( I tought so as well, it was so I have a purple gigantea which is super looking great, at one point the ht magnifica seemed to be responding to meds, if you've been following the pics after the meds shows a good sign of response no? Why this now all of a sudden has started to show sign of decomposing?
 
Yeah, that's a real bummer. I suspect it was reacting positively to the antibiotics, but was probably too weak to fully recover. It happened to me a while back with a S.Haddoni I bought so I could try to rescue. Initial treatment usually gives them a jolt making them perk up, but if they are too far infected, there is a 50-50 chance they might not make it.

At least you have a Gigantea, I have been looking for several months to get one, but no luck ;)
 
Your pictures won't show up. Can you repost them please?

Can you also post a picture of your purple gig too?
 
The reason is that I was reading some threads about this problem and kinda was comparing to my MAG . This thread gave some hints about a dying anemone something about the smell, holes... And as I told yesterday I found out that there's a hole instead of his mouth and it's still releasing some white slime and that's why I think there's a bit of smell .. but I'm not sure anymore !! They say that if it's decomposing the smell is really bad .. Mine is not that bad but I smell the water it has a smell but don't know if it's of this same slime
 
Justincasha said:
The reason is that I was reading some threads about this problem and kinda was comparing to my MAG . This thread gave some hints about a dying anemone something about the smell, holes... And as I told yesterday I found out that there's a hole instead of his mouth and it's still releasing some white slime and that's why I think there's a bit of smell .. but I'm not sure anymore !! They say that if it's decomposing the smell is really bad .. Mine is not that bad but I smell the water it has a smell but don't know if it's of this same slime
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You really want to leave the anemone alone, and not disturb it much, but when I'm QT a new arrival, I do 100% waterchanges, and when it's all empty, if you stick your nose close, you WILL smell it... Most I read only do 50% water changes. If it is easy to do, pull it out (if it's attached to a rock and easily removable) and smell it. It will make you noxious if it's on it's way out. you will know by smell (dead animal smell, not ocean earth smell), and most the time, they fall apart. Your mag really doesn't look so bad to me... Your gig worries me...

Unsolicited, and if I am overstepping my boundary, I'm sorry... That gig, IMO, looks like it's on the fence. Keep an eye on it. It is FAR from acclimated. Keep a close eye on it.
 
Justin, as Taylor said, that Mag is definitely not looking that bad. I hadn't seen the photos when you said we were contemplating removing it.
Keep up the dosage and water changes, it's certainly worth the try.
I agree, that Gigantea is not looking too healthy, maybe it's the photo, however, if I was you I'd keep an eye on it.
 
Here are 2 of my blues. Their mouth is almost covered by tentacles. Almost never seen, is closed 100% all the time, except when food hits the water. This is what they are supposed to look like when happy. They are both different, but both happy.


Here is one of my purples. NOT 100% acclimated. Still acclimating.

While this purple looks like it's acclimating well, it is not out of the woods.

Your purple is struggling. I would be really concerned with it. If it was mine, I would really consider changing something, it is not happy. I don't know enough about what your system is like, or what you have tried, or what any of your equipment is, so what I would do is hard to say. From your one pic, it appears to me to be too much light too early, but there could be something else, or more. I hope it recovers for you, but they have a bad track record for acclimating. The signs of them struggling are so subtle, most miss it.
 
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