Ciprofloxacin Antibiotic Treatment H. Magnifica Log

[ryannterror]

I ended up moving the mag into my one nano 30 gal system. I have some snails in my main tank that are a little bit smaller then a baseball and for some reason they would sleep next to the mags foot. It seemed to really upset the mag. So I felt was best to move the mag till its stronger. Was having a hard time getting a picture to show the mags real color in person the tentacles are yellow.

Here are a few pictures from this morning.

 

[OrionN]

He is pretty well bleached. If you have a Magnifica that is not bleached, you may want to cut a tentacle or two off of the healthy anemone and stuff it into a piece of food and feed it to the bleached anemone. Zooxanthellae transplant. This have been sucessfully use in the past to treat completly bleached anemone

 

[ryannterror]

He is pretty well bleached. If you have a Magnifica that is not bleached, you may want to cut a tentacle or two off of the healthy anemone and stuff it into a piece of food and feed it to the bleached anemone. Zooxanthellae transplant. This have been sucessfully use in the past to treat completly bleached anemone

I'm going to give it a few more weeks and see how things go. It's been getting more and more color back each day. I'm just going to continue feeding it. If i don't see a major improvement soon I will defiantly give that a shot. The only other mag I have is just getting use to its new tank so I don't really want to stress it out more by cutting it.

 

[SomeDude12]

He is pretty well bleached. If you have a Magnifica that is not bleached, you may want to cut a tentacle or two off of the healthy anemone and stuff it into a piece of food and feed it to the bleached anemone. Zooxanthellae transplant. This have been sucessfully use in the past to treat completly bleached anemone

Quite interesting.

 

[ryannterror]

He is pretty well bleached. If you have a Magnifica that is not bleached, you may want to cut a tentacle or two off of the healthy anemone and stuff it into a piece of food and feed it to the bleached anemone. Zooxanthellae transplant. This have been sucessfully use in the past to treat completly bleached anemone

Minh

Dose it have to be from a Mag? Could tentacle be say from a bubble tip?

 

[OrionN]

The two times I saw was both with the same species. One Gigantea and one Magnifica.
I don't think using BTA for Magnifica would hurt. It likely to work just as well. Why don't you do it and document it. Ithink it would be nice information to have. It have been more than a monthsince your magnifica bleached, maybe longer. I would encourage you to try it. Removal of tentacle is not a stress for anemone IMO

 

[ryannterror]

The two times I saw was both with the same species. One Gigantea and one Magnifica.
I don't think using BTA for Magnifica would hurt. It likely to work just as well. Why don't you do it and document it. Ithink it would be nice information to have. It have been more than a monthsince your magnifica bleached, maybe longer. I would encourage you to try it. Removal of tentacle is not a stress for anemone IMO

Ok I'll give it a shot in the next few days. Mag just ate last night so going to give a day or so to get hungry again.

Wish I just did it last night!!

I'll make sure I take pictures and document it well.

I'm interested to see if the green Zooxanthellae of the green bubble tip will have any effect on the mags coloring. I am correct in my understanding that the type/species of Zooxanthellae determines the coloring correct. It's not the anemone that determines what coloring the Zooxanthellae produce?

 

[OrionN]

All the zooxanthellae are golden brown. The color of the anemone is due to the genetic of the animal, but the zooanthellae added the brownish color to it.
Bleached Blue Gigantea will stay blue after it recover even if it get zooanthellae from a brown Gigantea.

 

[OrionN]

Rather than add on tot his thread, start a new thread so that we can search for it later on. I tried to search for the two other threads on zooxanthellae that I read but only come up with one.