Hole in the Wall

[Psionicdragon]

So..my red carpet anemone has a hole the size of a quarter on the side. It looks like it got cut or something chewed on it...

Its beyond deflated and looks like its melting..whats the chances of it recovering from the injury?

 

[OrionN]

How long have you had it? Picture?

 

[Psionicdragon]

 

[Psionicdragon]

So...is it a goner? My friend had it for a month, but was breaking down his tank and dropped it off yesterday. Now I am concern because my own red carpet is gaping.

 

[E.intheC]

I'm not an expert, but that doesn't look good at all

 

[Psionicdragon]

The last pic is of the flesh split on the left and the right. So its just a clump flesh

 

[OrionN]

Pray that what ever it had it did not transmitted to your's. Good luck. Consider use antibiotic to treat them.

 

[Psionicdragon]

Pray that what ever it had it did not transmitted to your's. Good luck. Consider use antibiotic to treat them.

Any suggestions on antibiotics? The one that I research on RC are not legal in the US. Also I thought antibiotics are bad for anemones/corals because it kills off their tenants.

 

[OrionN]

I think either get some Cipro or Doxycycline. I do not think the antibiotic will kill zooxanthellae, just the bacterial.

 

[D-Nak]

My gigantea has been through an MP40 twice, the first time it fully recovered in a month and it's slowly recovering this week from getting sucked in last week (through the foam cover if you can believe that).

Yours however, looks different -- my gig never deflated and never opened its mouth. This leads me to believe that something else is wrong with your haddoni and that the injury was not the cause of the nem's demise -- more that an illness is causing the injury.

My only suggestion is to remove the anemone and put it in a quarantine tank and as Minh pointed out -- hope that it didn't spread whatever it has to your other haddoni. You can also boost up the level of iodine, as that is supposed to help. Other than that, I know that folks have tried antibiotics, but I haven't seen any cases of 100% success.

Unfortunately, there are a few people out there who I suspect have a remedy, but don't want to share. This has more to do with acclimating anemones for sale, and since this involves $$$$ the knowledge is kept a "trade" secret.

 

[OrionN]

I think a sick anemone cannot heal itself so a small injury just fester and get bigger. If you are able to get Doxycycline or Ciprofloxacine (both generic and should be cheap), this is the dose I would use and the rational why I use this:
Doxycycline human dose 100 mg twice a day. Water soluble and distribute whidely in our body with the fluid. If you think that an average human is about 70 kg and all fluid, our volume would be about 70 Quart (1 kg water is 1 liter which is about 1 quart) or 17.5 gallons or so.
I would mix 100 mg Doxy in 17-20 gallon of tank water and put the anemone in it (quarantine tank). Change water with water have the same about of Doxy in it for about 7-10 days. Our body eliminate Doxy through the gut. In aquarium no doubt that the bacterial would break down some Doxy but I don't know how fast so I just dose it only with water change.
Similarly Cipro dose in human is about 500 mg twice a day. Same rational. I would use 500 mg in 17-20 gallon of tank water and and use this. Cipro is eliminate though kidney but how fast it get eliminate in our quarantine tank is anybody guess (or you can do drug level which we cannot do)

Hope this help. Good luck

 

[Psionicdragon]

Thanks!

D-nak, you know you want to heal this anemone for me .

 

[Psionicdragon]

Bah....looks like both carpets are doing the death march sigh

 

[D-Nak]

Ugh, sorry to hear about that. If you can get your hands on the meds and can set up a quarantine tank, you've got nothing to lose.

I'd offer to help, but I just don't have the resources right now. I only have Erythromycin, but that has not been proven to work.

 

[OrionN]

Good luck. If you choose to use antibiotic. Before picture, during and reports on the result including what antibiotic and how you treat the anemone. Including the dosage please, even in failure.
This is the only way we are going to learn

 

[Psionicdragon]

I actually don't think at this stage it will work. They look really really destroyed atm . I guess i'll try to stock up when I can find another red carpet...

Kind a sucks since it took me 6 month waiting to get one...