Heteractis Magnifica first week

[pecero]

I have a purple Heteractis Magnifica in my tank since 4 days ago.

I put it where I wanted and it would stay and in a couple of minutes it was gripped. Since then it has not moved. It has good flow and gives light directly, but I am surprised it does not move anything.
In these four days I have been fully inflated in a few moments, and once that has coincided deflated when the power of light rose.
Is this normal behavior?

I have lost the power of light, if I could bother you.

 

[lawdog]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2271385

Read the Orion sticky link on antibiotics treating for Mags/Gigs... that is the bad inflate/deflate cycle of a Mag that indicates it is sick and needs treatment. You will need to pull it and setup a hospital tank and treat with Cipro quickly...

Good luck... awesome animals just usually need treatment when moved or shipped.

A healthy Mag will never fully deflate like your picture shows.

 

[r00onmac]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2271385

Read the Orion sticky link on antibiotics treating for Mags/Gigs... that is the bad inflate/deflate cycle of a Mag that indicates it is sick and needs treatment. You will need to pull it and setup a hospital tank and treat with Cipro quickly...

Good luck... awesome animals just usually need treatment when moved or shipped.

A healthy Mag will never fully deflate like your picture shows.

I don't necessarily agree with your use of the word "never" but I would agree that based of the single picture provided it doesn't look like it is in stellar shape. As a veterinary student I always wonder: where do you guys who treat your anemones get the antibiotics from?

 

[pecero]

Sometimes some tentacles look good, but never all are inflated.

I am preparing a plastic bucket but i dont know if i can buy the antibiotic.


The mounth now

 

[ca1ore]

I don't necessarily agree with your use of the word "never" but I would agree that based of the single picture provided it doesn't look like it is in stellar shape. As a veterinary student I always wonder: where do you guys who treat your anemones get the antibiotics from?

Once a mag is fully acclimated it will almost never deflate, and if it does it will just be a few tentacles, usually from some form of mechanical irritation. Deflation of the complete animal ('anemone pancake') is a very bad sign and it will almost certainly die without treatment. Thomas labs make a range of antibiotics for fish that are available from most of the online aquarium vendors. Fish Flox is cipro and Fish Sulfa forte is septra.

 

[pecero]

Once a mag is fully acclimated it will almost never deflate, and if it does it will just be a few tentacles, usually from some form of mechanical irritation. Deflation of the complete animal ('anemone pancake') is a very bad sign and it will almost certainly die without treatment. Thomas labs make a range of antibiotics for fish that are available from most of the online aquarium vendors. Fish Flox is cipro and Fish Sulfa forte is septra.

But how many time you mean with a "fully acclimated"?

 

[ca1ore]

But how many time you mean with a "fully acclimated"?

Hard to say; it depends a bit on the health of the animal. I've had them settle down almost immediately, and be good after a few days. I have also battled with them for 4-6 weeks before either proclaiming success or having the animal die. Most of mine required a week of treatment with antibiotics.

 

[pecero]

Hard to say; it depends a bit on the health of the animal. I've had them settle down almost immediately, and be good after a few days. I have also battled with them for 4-6 weeks before either proclaiming success or having the animal die. Most of mine required a week of treatment with antibiotics.

Then will you recommend me start treatment right away?

 

[pecero]

Here is in the night

Thank u for the help and sorry for my english!

 

[ca1ore]

I would start antibiotic treatments as soon as you can.

 

[blackgate]

Yup, that ain't lookin too hot

 

[pecero]

I am looking cipro and I hope to start the threatment this afternoon.

Is it easy take of the anemone of the rocks?

Now in the morning the body looks well, but only some tentacles are ok

 

[joshky]

IMO treat it on the rock, don't stress the anemone out anymore.

 

[pecero]

I cant take the rock out of the aquarium. It is a big structure that suppose the 70% of all life rock in the tank.

I already have cipro and I will threat it in a big tupper because I have not got an hospital aquarium. I know it is difficult, but i will try it.

 

[pecero]

Well, yesterday I begun the treatment at the afternoon. The anemone stuck to the rock very quickly, but this morning she was detached. I had lost all hope, but when I have arrived she was open and his body was inflated and stuck to the floor. A few tentacles are inflated. She opens and close her mouth, and I can see that she has reacted with the light.

We will have to have hope!

 

[jwoyshnar]

I started treatment on my two of mine two days ago, yesterday they looked absolutely horrible. Pancakes are thicker than what these were. When I got home from work today they were bigger than I ever seen them. What a turn around. I couldn't believe the crap they spit out.

 

[ca1ore]

I started treatment on my two of mine two days ago, yesterday they looked absolutely horrible. Pancakes are thicker than what these were. When I got home from work today they were bigger than I ever seen them. What a turn around. I couldn't believe the crap they spit out.

Let me caution you that this is what they often do - look awful in the afternoon, but then much better in the morning ..... only to look awful again in the afternoon. It's the inflate/deflate cycle that signals a problem.

 

[jwoyshnar]

Yes well aware of it, thanks. They will be left in there for the week still. I just can't get over how good they look. They both looked near death for a few days. They will be in there till the cycle stops

 

[pecero]

Finally the anemone has died

 

[lawdog]

sorry to hear... bummer