pittscoral
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so I'm on my 2nd treatment for this guy and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. I tried using the sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim when i did that, that day it was at its worst so i stopped and went back to just Cipro.
cipro treatment on my blue carpet
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addictedreefer
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Was this guy established? What happened?
pittscoral
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from a LFS
addictedreefer
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Oh man, hope he doesn't bring down the others. Be vigilant. I had a plague sweep through my 210 tank a couple months back, which I believe was started by the new addition of a seemingly healthy (and very small) blue haddoni. Weeks of rounds of treatment as the nems went down one by one (and some multiple times). Lost a red haddoni and multicolor gig as well as the new blue haddoni. Escaped by the skin of my teeth with a green haddoni and my mags.
pittscoral
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its in QT
CoralsAddiction
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It's a good looking nem. Hope it pulls through.
pittscoral
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not at the store
D-Nak
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IME when a nem inverts its stomach (as shown in the first photo) the nem is trying to expel something and it's unable to do so under current conditions. It may not be an infection, it could be that it's trying to poop.
Is the nem in a basket? How is the flow? Is it able to spread open? My guess is that there isn't enough current to remove the waste the nem is trying to expel, and/or the space is too cramped where it can't fully expand. I'm not a fan of baskets for these reasons, though others have had success using them.
Is the nem in a basket? How is the flow? Is it able to spread open? My guess is that there isn't enough current to remove the waste the nem is trying to expel, and/or the space is too cramped where it can't fully expand. I'm not a fan of baskets for these reasons, though others have had success using them.
D-Nak
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I had a similar experience where a sick gigantea--a small blue one that never deflated for two weeks, the suddenly showed signs of sickness--took out two other gigs and a haddoni. Once the haddoni when down it never recovered. One gig recovered with treatment but the other one died. However, my magnifica never showed signs of stress. I tend to think the infection is species/family specific.
CoralsAddiction
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How much cipro are you using per gallon? It was either doomed from the start or might have developed immunity to antibiotics. If I were you and nothing was working I would probably increase Cipro dose as a last resort.
CoralsAddiction
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Also a possibility.
pittscoral
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so this was it yesterday when I got home, and I figured in a last chance effort I would do 1000mg in a five gallon bucket. I've already wrote it off for dead so why not. I'm going to leave the light off for the day as well.
this morning after about 10hrs in to treatment it looks a bit better, i thought i was going to see a blob in the bucket. but it's been doing this the whole time, looking ok then bad then ok again. so will see going to just keep doing the 1000mg of Cipro tell the mouth closes up.
D-Nak
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so this was it yesterday when I got home, and I figured in a last chance effort I would do 1000mg in a five gallon bucket. I've already wrote it off for dead so why not. I'm going to leave the light off for the day as well.
this morning after about 10hrs in to treatment it looks a bit better, i thought i was going to see a blob in the bucket. but it's been doing this the whole time, looking ok then bad then ok again. so will see going to just keep doing the 1000mg of Cipro tell the mouth closes up.
That's impressive. When my sick nems look as bad as they do in the first photo, I usually get ready to pull them. Keep us posted.
ocellaris123
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I am the ops friend, unfortunately it passed despite his efforts to save it.
