Anenome Deflated, gaping

[btucker7587]

Just got this little guy home and he found a spot and attached just fine, but after about an hour he deflated. i am assuming that he is taking a dump, but I have not seen one open this wide before...

Should I be worried? Should i increase my active carbon? or am I just worrying for nothing.

 

[rhinonm]

Yes. I would do a cipro treatment.

 

[OrionN]

Your tank look kinda new.
Is it a BTA or Magnifica right next to him?

The carpet looks sick. You should take him out of DT and treat him with antibiotic. He may pass the infection he has to other anemones in the tank.

I am sure this is not new to you, but most animals we keep need to be quarantine before introduce to our DT, especially if you have a large DT and healthy animals of similar or same species. Clams, corals, anemones and fish.

 

[btucker7587]

Your tank look kinda new.
Is it a BTA or Magnifica right next to him?

The carpet looks sick. You should take him out of DT and treat him with antibiotic. He may pass the infection he has to other anemones in the tank.

I am sure this is not new to you, but most animals we keep need to be quarantine before introduce to our DT, especially if you have a large DT and healthy animals of similar or same species. Clams, corals, anemones and fish.

The tank is five months old. the anemone next to it is a Magnifica. Thing is, the Magnifica decided it wanted the carpets place, so it encroached. i have moved the carpet to a small nursery tank and i will treat with an antibiotic as soon as the typhoon here blows over. Both the Magnifica and the carpet were quarantined for about two weeks before I put them in and he was healthy and looking awesome. (I keep a quarantine tank at a LFS for a fee) I couldn't move it back to the quarantine tank because i still have coral in it that will be there for another 30 days to properly establish before I **** them off with another move.

I hope this guy makes it, he is gorgeous when fully inflated and splayed.

Edit...my BTA is below the Magnifica. Labeled it wrong in first reply.

 

[btucker7587]

I just realized...

I use NSW with my tank, no mix. The quarantine is a mix (managed by fish breeders). I did a 25% water exchange right after putting in my carpet anemone. It may not be accustom to the microbes in the NSW. That is all I can think of.

Water parameters, in case you are wondering -
Saline -32.4 / 1.024 grav
No2 - 0
No3 - 0
NH3/4 - 0
Po4 - .5ppm
KH - 8dKH
PH - 8.5
CA - 400ppm

Those levels are as of Friday. Will be testing again today just to be sure.

 

[btucker7587]

The weather let up enough for me to make it to the LFS. They took it and put it into a hospital equivalent tank for me. They will give it a week to see if it improves and will exchange it if it does not.

They take their aquariums and their business serious here in Okinawa...

 

[OrionN]

Must be nice to be in Okinawa. Diving there must be exceptional. Living so close to the source, animals does not need to travel so far to get to your tank. Best of luck with him.

 

[btucker7587]

Diving is awesome here. Most of the coral and and some anemone's can be seen in about 15' of water or less which is awesome. Once you get out to about 30-40' you start seeing frying pan sized and bigger Moorish Idol's and a lot of Long Nose Trevally in large schools.

The most interesting fish I have seen is the small Batfish about 500m off shore. There was a school of about 15 of them in a tight pack zipping through the water and in and out of the coral / rock. Followed them trying to get a good pic but ran into a ****ed off Lion Fish as they were going through the rock and had to break contact.

The fortunate thing about the fish and game laws here is that you can pull up water, sand and rocks from the ocean, but no coral or anemone. Even dead coral are a no-go (mainly SPS). So I just get what I need from the ocean and purchase the coral and anemone from a local breeder. Anemone here run about $40. The two in the picture below were a total of about $70.