Established Magnifica deflate

[Swayze27]

Man, I can't win for losing. Nem looked good all day. Had a newly added toadstool to melt on me before I left the house and it crumbled all in the water.. It was questionable from the jump. Then when I returned home nem was deflated and balled up. I did notice that I may have a heater malfunctioning on me. Digital thermometers were registering about 2-3 degrees higher than normal. So now I'm wondering if an intermittent heater issue is causing stress instead of there being an infection. My tank water even felt noticeably warmer to the touch. I run two heaters as a backup so I unplugged the one in question. If this goes south I'm going all BTA!!!

 

[ClownNut]

no controller? i dont trust heaters.

 

[Swayze27]

No controller....yet. I'm thinking about getting one now. Could the temp cause this? Also can a dying toadstool leather emitting toxins cause this? I've got the treatment tank out of basement and cleaned up but wondering if the heater/ toadstool stress may be the culprit and could clear once everything levels out. I've been redecorating the tank and the mishandling of two leathers caused them to blow smoke and wither up. Basically I need to keep my freaking hands out of the tank.

 

[LauraGreenImp]

Every "˜tank disaster' I have EVER had has been bc of heater failure. Apex jr works, won't break your budget. Just my .02.


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[Swayze27]

Thanks, I will check it out. I guess if I wanna hang with the big girls and boys I gotta pony up. I started treatment on the mag that's behaving poorly. Didn't want to risk my other ones health. Running some fresh carbon too.

 

[ChizerBunoi]

Sometimes I wonder if the food we feed is not great. Even if its super fresh or frozen from fish store. Perhaps it introduces a new bacteria into the nem causing it to do this.

 

[Swayze27]

I've thought the same. I've wondered if they dont digest it well enough and it sits inside them rotting so to speak ultimately causing problems. I feed raw shrimp for human consumption but nothing "fresh" we get is as fresh from inside the ocean.

 

[D-Nak]

I've thought the same. I've wondered if they dont digest it well enough and it sits inside them rotting so to speak ultimately causing problems. I feed raw shrimp for human consumption but nothing "fresh" we get is as fresh from inside the ocean.

Raw shrimp is often treated with preservatives, most common is STPP. I can't prove that it harms nems, but anything that can release phosphate while the nem is digesting it, concerns me. There are better options to feed nems; I typically recommend wild salmon or sushi-grade tuna.

Regarding your situation, I think the dead leather is the culprit. Definitely do a big water change and continue to run carbon. I QT all of my potential additions to my nem tank, and usually what happens is my QT tank gets a little fuller, because I don't end up adding the coral/invert to the nem tank.

 

[Swayze27]

Ive definitely got to do better on qt new arrivals.

 

[Swayze27]

.....meanwhile

 

[Swayze27]

He was definitely sick, hopefully I can get him back going. Has not deflated any in qt, some weird contortions and the typical tiny particle discharge though.

 

[Swayze27]

 

[pfan151]

I think if he’s eating then you probably didn’t need to pull it. Sick Anemones don’t eat. I would have just done multiple water changes to get your parameters back in check and I’m sure it would have been fine.

 

[Swayze27]

Eating response had slowed dramatically to the point that I had to pull it from him.