Does Quality Marine treat mags?
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Winwood
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My guess is they don't. I don't think a lot of wholesalers hold onto their anemones long enough to do so. I don't deal with Quality but a different wholesaler, and they told me about a year ago, in order to get their carpet anemones ready for shipping, they would "fluff" them. From my understanding this is just taking the anemone by the hand and bouncing it up and down underwater. My rep told me this helps stimulate the anemone to close its mouth and get ready for shipping.
Most wholesalers I've dealt with over the years, of which Quality was one of them, have had a hard time identifying the correct species. All the wholesalers that I've been to, most of the employees aren't hobbyists, they're reliable employees. If they are hobbyists, they're usually employees first, if that makes sense.
I guess what I'm getting at is, at their price point, to take up space and employee time, it probably doesn't pencil out to treat an anemone to them. Not to mention, the amount of animals they see and go, would really make it difficult to keep track of treatment. I imagine, as soon as they get the animals unboxed, they go up for sale.
Just my 2 cents
Most wholesalers I've dealt with over the years, of which Quality was one of them, have had a hard time identifying the correct species. All the wholesalers that I've been to, most of the employees aren't hobbyists, they're reliable employees. If they are hobbyists, they're usually employees first, if that makes sense.
I guess what I'm getting at is, at their price point, to take up space and employee time, it probably doesn't pencil out to treat an anemone to them. Not to mention, the amount of animals they see and go, would really make it difficult to keep track of treatment. I imagine, as soon as they get the animals unboxed, they go up for sale.
Just my 2 cents
justinky
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Even if they treat them, that doesn't mean when it lands on your door step or rather LFS it will be healthy if that's what you're hoping. If they do treat and ship that just adds to the stress of the anemone and it could easily relapse. When it arrives just be completely ready to treat and if it calls for treatment , treat for no less then 7 days.
Now if you're scared they are treating like DD which on these forums has had sort of a sketchy past recently (but overall very good) that they will not respond to treatment because they've already been treated, that I cannot answer. Good Luck with the H. Magnifica and I hope its a beauty!
Now if you're scared they are treating like DD which on these forums has had sort of a sketchy past recently (but overall very good) that they will not respond to treatment because they've already been treated, that I cannot answer. Good Luck with the H. Magnifica and I hope its a beauty!
BTW, not in the medical field, but I don't think prior treatment necessarily means subsequent resistance. I received a magnifica from DD a few weeks ago, and it went downhill pretty quickly. That it had been treated with cipro at DD did not prevent a full recovery in my HT also using cipro.
justinky
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Prior treatment done properly does not build up resistance. Improper treatment can and will build up a resistance, treating with antibiotics too short or missing a day are examples of improper treatment. DD does try their best with everything they send so I don't want to say anything out of line, but for a while they had a low success rate with DD specimens making it alive. I'm sure they've fixed the problem if there was one.
Ontop of treating, if they are sent out the second they finish treatment they are in a very vulnerable state, just like us when we're sick. Our white blood cell count is low, which makes it easy to catch something else, if this happens you will have a sick anemone arrive to your doorstep more then likely.
I'm as big a fan of a good story as the next guy, but sorry, this is all speculation (and even if it's not, the sample size way too small to draw any meaningful conclusions). Incomplete course of antibiotics, or even irresponsible use, absolutely can build resistance; however, I doubt that's at play here frankly.
justinky
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I'm not saying anyone is doing it, I'm saying it's a possibility. DD especially would not do it purposely if at all. Sorry if it came off differently as I wasn't trying to point any fingers, I was merely stating what can happen if improper care is taken towards anemones.
I'm totally with you - in fact when I got my DD mag I was sure I had septra on hand, which would have been the preferred med. But of course I didn't have any
Thanks for all the info! As for getting the proper species from a wholesaler my experience has always been as you described winwood and that specimen identification reliability (not just with mags) is usually suspect.
I had no expectations of a healthy specimen but was rather referring to some of the treatment guides I have read saying that if treated before arrival a different antibiotic may be the better first line of defense (as you stated in part 2 justinky). I assumed that using a different antibiotic was beneficial in that any persisting infection may not respond as favorably to the previously used medication and so using a different may have more of an effect on that particular infection.
Now for the bad news... Out of the entire order quality zeroed two items for the store one was my nem (ironically both items zeroed were the only items ordered specifically for customers, me and the other guy were the only two there when the shipment arrived and left empty handed)
I had no expectations of a healthy specimen but was rather referring to some of the treatment guides I have read saying that if treated before arrival a different antibiotic may be the better first line of defense (as you stated in part 2 justinky). I assumed that using a different antibiotic was beneficial in that any persisting infection may not respond as favorably to the previously used medication and so using a different may have more of an effect on that particular infection.
Now for the bad news... Out of the entire order quality zeroed two items for the store one was my nem (ironically both items zeroed were the only items ordered specifically for customers, me and the other guy were the only two there when the shipment arrived and left empty handed)
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