Well, I found a Mag in an LFS near me and it had been there 3 days. They had (surprisingly) been treating it with cipro over those 3 days. It was kind of half-inflated and expelling tons of gunk. They got it from a supplier in LA.
This is a red-based, yellow-tipped mag and I was quite interested. I asked to get up on a stool to reach into the tank so that I could waft the tentacles apart and get a look at the mouth as well as inspect it a little further. I discovered a tear down one side and long-story short, they gave it to me to bring home and try to nurse to health. I immediately began cipro treatment via the method described in the sticky thread at the top of this page.
It has released enough gunk to cloud the water at least every 12 hours, causing us to accelerate the water change and re-dose to about every 12 hours.
It is not very sticky and won't stay down. It inflates everything except the injured side and delicately "holds-on" with a couple of verrucae at a time. It responds very positively to light (inflating, reaching for the light).
I have it sitting on a pyrex plate (slightly concave) on top of a pyrex bowl (to give it height for the light). There is just enough concavity to the plate to keep it loosely situated on top.
Anything I should be doing to help it heal, other than keeping up the clean water and meds? It's a really pretty nem.
The area around the injury is very difficult to assess because the nem keeps itself tight around the margins, almost pinching off the injured part. I think the tissue is necrotic and dissolving. I keep wondering if I should slice away the necrotic tissue and allow it a clean edge to heal. But in all honesty, I feel like accuracy would be virtually impossible because I can't see the wound well, and because the nem is the consistency of snot when it wants to be.
Anyway, any words of advice at all?
This is a red-based, yellow-tipped mag and I was quite interested. I asked to get up on a stool to reach into the tank so that I could waft the tentacles apart and get a look at the mouth as well as inspect it a little further. I discovered a tear down one side and long-story short, they gave it to me to bring home and try to nurse to health. I immediately began cipro treatment via the method described in the sticky thread at the top of this page.
It has released enough gunk to cloud the water at least every 12 hours, causing us to accelerate the water change and re-dose to about every 12 hours.
It is not very sticky and won't stay down. It inflates everything except the injured side and delicately "holds-on" with a couple of verrucae at a time. It responds very positively to light (inflating, reaching for the light).
I have it sitting on a pyrex plate (slightly concave) on top of a pyrex bowl (to give it height for the light). There is just enough concavity to the plate to keep it loosely situated on top.
Anything I should be doing to help it heal, other than keeping up the clean water and meds? It's a really pretty nem.
The area around the injury is very difficult to assess because the nem keeps itself tight around the margins, almost pinching off the injured part. I think the tissue is necrotic and dissolving. I keep wondering if I should slice away the necrotic tissue and allow it a clean edge to heal. But in all honesty, I feel like accuracy would be virtually impossible because I can't see the wound well, and because the nem is the consistency of snot when it wants to be.
Anyway, any words of advice at all?
