flakey
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It's been a long time waiting (months !!!), but I think I am almost there...
Previously, I purchased from LFS's and they never lasted long. This time thanks to everyone here and Minh's excellent Cipro thread I was well prepared. I made it my priority to get hold of Cipro before even considering buying another mag.
It's hard getting hold of a healthy mag here in the UK so when a fellow reefer offered his one, I snapped it up. To cut the story short, by the time I got it home which was 3 days after collection, it's mouth was gaping open its guts hanging out.
I followed Minh's instructions and quickly setup a 10g treatment tank.
These picture were after day 4 and it now looks great already, apart from the damage. There has been no deflating and the mouth has remained tight as in the photo.
My mistakes....
1.
On day 1 of treatment, my powerhead was positioned lying at the bottom of the tank and blowing sideways. My thoughts were they liked high flow. the next morning, a small portion of the base was sticking to the glass and the powerhead had caused it to twist several times, it's mouth was gaping open and did not look very good to me so I pointed it at 10 o'clock. Since re-positioning the powerhead, it looks a lot healthier and it's mouth has closed nicely.
2.
The powerhead was not secured properly and had blown itself so it's intake was near the eggcrate and it sucked in a load of the mags tenticles. I woke up in the morning and was a cloudy tank and quickly did a water change, and properly secured the powerhead. I have since secured it and put more space between the power head and egg crate.
Well so far so good, fingers crossed I will soon be able to move this into my display tank !!!!
I don't think I'm 100% there yet, but just want to say thanks again to everybody here for sharing their experiences and advice. :wave:
Previously, I purchased from LFS's and they never lasted long. This time thanks to everyone here and Minh's excellent Cipro thread I was well prepared. I made it my priority to get hold of Cipro before even considering buying another mag.
It's hard getting hold of a healthy mag here in the UK so when a fellow reefer offered his one, I snapped it up. To cut the story short, by the time I got it home which was 3 days after collection, it's mouth was gaping open its guts hanging out.
I followed Minh's instructions and quickly setup a 10g treatment tank.
These picture were after day 4 and it now looks great already, apart from the damage. There has been no deflating and the mouth has remained tight as in the photo.
My mistakes....
1.
On day 1 of treatment, my powerhead was positioned lying at the bottom of the tank and blowing sideways. My thoughts were they liked high flow. the next morning, a small portion of the base was sticking to the glass and the powerhead had caused it to twist several times, it's mouth was gaping open and did not look very good to me so I pointed it at 10 o'clock. Since re-positioning the powerhead, it looks a lot healthier and it's mouth has closed nicely.
2.
The powerhead was not secured properly and had blown itself so it's intake was near the eggcrate and it sucked in a load of the mags tenticles. I woke up in the morning and was a cloudy tank and quickly did a water change, and properly secured the powerhead. I have since secured it and put more space between the power head and egg crate.
Well so far so good, fingers crossed I will soon be able to move this into my display tank !!!!
I don't think I'm 100% there yet, but just want to say thanks again to everybody here for sharing their experiences and advice. :wave:
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