Injured crispa

[bjledbetter]

Took an anemone in from a guy today that had just got it from a local store. He said it it was malu I believe it's crispa because it immediately went up into the the rock. But thats not why I'm here. The thing looks like it's been in a power head or something. Part of the tentacles are tore up and the mouth is partially open from the best I can tell. It's keeping the messed up section up close to the mouth so I can't get a good view or pic of it to see what's really damaged. It is bleached but has well over 1"tentacles and is well inflated everywhere but where it's injured. The foot looks fine and is sticking to the rock well as its traveling my tank right now looking for a place to plant. It did catch a piece of shrimp and I believe ate it when I fed the fish. Any suggestions on care to get it healthy again? I have cipro if it would help, but I don't believe it has an infection and that moving it out of a well established tank to a qt might do more harm than good in less necessary.

 

[davocean]

Looks like crispa to me too.
As long as foot or mouth is unharmed it should heal.
It's also bleached obviously.
Not so high light, maybe shade an area, squirt mysis towards it, probably will come back, crispas are fairly tough

 

[bjledbetter]

I put it in the sand/rock interface to start with and it's climbing up toward the top of the rockwork. Lights are not normally that high, I just turned the whites way up so I could get a better pic and then they went back down. I checked the foot before I ever brought it home and it looks good. I can't see all of the oral disk but I can't see any mesophillments hanging out just messed up tentacles and the mouth is puckered open. It's not gaping like a sick one does. I'm used to gigs and mags. This is the first crispa I've ever tried I think.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

not so high light, maybe shade an area

+1

 

[bjledbetter]

Ok I decided I wanted a look at the mouth and got a turkey baster and moved it around. It does have a tear in the oral disk around the mouth. I can't tell how bad though because it tried to ball up on me.

 

[rhdoug]

Mine was chewed up in a powerhead sometime around 2002-2004, there was only about half of it left and the mouth was damaged as well. I just put it back in the rocks and left it alone, after a few months you couldn't tell anything happened to it. I still have it.