Carpet strange mouth behavior

[Tango451]

Pictures?

Here is a pic of one of the patches. You can see two- the big one on the disc and a small one on the edge. There are a bunch all over. Not sure what is causing this. I am hoping they will grow back overtime. I used septra last night as well. So now 7 nights
Of treatment - 5 with cipro, 2 with Septra. Should I go one more night on Septra or stop treatment tonight?

 

[m0nkie]

IME. one of my red carpet started going bald from the mouth area... it was half bald before slowing recovering in my tank and grew all the tentacles back. I think it's from the expelling.. basically they are losing body mass. (kinda like BTA losing tentacles). I didn't do anything. Just improved water quality.

as for mouth kinda open.. I have noticed that their mouth opens more when they sit in a cup upright. With mouth facing ceiling. Do you have enough flow over it? Whenever I lean the cup down, mouth facing the sides, they tend to close it tight...

 

[Tango451]

IME. one of my red carpet started going bald from the mouth area... it was half bald before slowing recovering in my tank and grew all the tentacles back. I think it's from the expelling.. basically they are losing body mass. (kinda like BTA losing tentacles). I didn't do anything. Just improved water quality.

as for mouth kinda open.. I have noticed that their mouth opens more when they sit in a cup upright. With mouth facing ceiling. Do you have enough flow over it? Whenever I lean the cup down, mouth facing the sides, they tend to close it tight...

By cup do you mean the shape of the carpet or an actual cup? I recently replaced the powerhead with a slightly larger one and either septra has caused it to look much better, the extra water flow, or both.

And yes, I am hoping he will regenerate all of his tentacles. That happened to my red once but only on the edge and they did grow back after a few months. I just have never seen a haddoni loose patches all over from edges, to center, to sides, etc. It is still in treatment.

I am unsure if I should continue treating it with septra/ for how many days is protocol after switching antibiotics if there has been no deflation. Still producing zoo but less (There is some on the mouth now that I will take out tonight during the water change - mouth is currently closed).

 

[vhuang168]

Slightly OT but was wondering where you got the Septra from?

 

[OrionN]

He actually looks good. These will recover quickly once he is healthy

 

[Tango451]

Slightly OT but was wondering where you got the Septra from?

No worries, and from my dog's vetenarian. Strange though as he will not write a script for cipro for the anemones but did for septra and to be exact it wa sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim 800/160 mg TB substituted for Bactrim DS (800-160mg)

 

[Tango451]

He actually looks good. These will recover quickly once he is healthy

I am glad to hear and I thought so too. The improvement after switching to septra is amazing. And when you switch antibiotcics how long do you continue treatment on the new antibiotic/ when should I stop. Currently it is 5 nights cipro and 3 nights septra

 

[OrionN]

I would treat for 7 days with new antibiotic