Magnifica got burned

[SVXH6]

soooo, being the smart person i am i made the dumbest mistake.. i just picked up what seems to be a very healthy purple based with white tips H. Magnifica.. by my idiocy i left the heater in tank when i re set the sump up.. well, he decided to move a few inches upon being placed in the tank i forgot the heater was in there and not in the sump.. his side, not the foot touched the heater and got burned by it.. it doesnt look as it burned through more or less just burned his purple base flesh off.. there was no retraction from it, no gaping mouth, no damage to the foot..he is still sticky and had just ate, but it spit the food up after the incident.. what should i do if anything, and do you think H. Mag can survive this??

 

[Flighty]

Just a wild guess, but I doubt that that is the kind of injury that would kill a mag. Had he been in long enough for you to see eating before the incident?

(of course I would love to see pics as always )

 

[SVXH6]

i had just got him..he did eat immediately.. now it seems like he is losing more flesh where it happened.. i dont think he will make it.. it was in awesome shape though.. extremely sticky tentacles, sticky foot, extremely tight mouth, purple based, brown tentacles with white tips.. it was my fault and it sucks.. he is still expanding and 3/4 of it looks great just5 not where he got burned..there was no damage to the foot though, just its side.. im hoping but not thinking it will make it..

 

[Flighty]

If it is spreading and you think he won't make it, you could try cutting that part off. Do it to the center like a pie slice.

 

[SVXH6]

i just checked and where he was burned it is all split open.. i dont think it will make it.. maybe i will cut it in half and keep the undamged half.. i highly doubt that will work either though.. do you think i should cut it in half or just cut the damaged part off??

-- its not spreading the only affected area is where it happened..

 

[Flighty]

I would cut it as far as you have to go to get all of the burned tissue off and a much around that as you think you can afford. This is a last ditch effort after all so you might as well cut deep and try to only leave healthy tissue.

Best of luck with it and be careful about your fish who share the water.

 

[SVXH6]

thanks.. ill perform the surgery tonight when i get out of work.. the fish seem fine, suprisingly.. mouth still closed, expanded and 1/4 of it is definately toast.. i moved it and saw a mass of white strings(its insides) spewing out where it was burned.. ill cut that area off tonight.. and oh yeah get this---- a adult domino damsel just decided to start hosting in it..really weird(i know they do this when young)..

 

[SVXH6]

well, any last comments before i make the cut?? ill be doing it at 930 so lmk fast!! i'd really like others insight.. thanks..

 

[Flighty]

Did you do it? Good luck!

 

[SVXH6]

well, it actually did it itself.. it contracted the part where it got burned and picnched off that part of flesh.. i have not cut it yet as it still has a firm grasp on the rock, and expands when the light is on.. it kind of ate, but spit it up when i turned the lights out..when the lights when out its mouth started to kind of gape open, idk if it was because it moved a tiny bit or what..there are some "noodles" exposed where it pinched its flesh off.. im unsure of what i should do.. let it go, or cut it..

 

[Flighty]

Interesting that it had the same idea we did. Noodles being exposed are what you would expect if you had cut it. The magnifica I have took weeks to heal up after a split, so don't expect it to be fast. One thing I would not do is feed it at all while the insides are outside. That seems like it would only provide a great attraction for infection and pests like bristle worms and shrimp.

 

[SVXH6]

dumb Q but.... do you think i should do lots of water changes??i planned on itbut just wanted to hear your take.. kinda weird it did it itself, thats why i didnt go ahead and do it, and felt no need to make an extra cut.. funny thing was, there was a domino damsel hanging out in it!! that changed and now my ocellaris female dove in, which kinda makes me nervous.. for what happened its still looks pretty decent.. the mouth being slightly open is the only thing that really has me worried.. but its stressed..what about lights?? should i keep the MH on or just use the pc's??

 

[Flighty]

With magnificas I think having a clown in there is very good. They really seem to be helped by them stirring the tentacles and keeping stuff away from it even when they are sick.

I would do regular lighting. They don't have a brain, so you don't want the healthy part going off and looking for light while the sick part shouldn't be moved. In my experience the color of the light has even more to do with whether or not the anemone tries to move than the intensity, so do whatever is the yellowest and the least blue.

The odd thing about the mouth is that I saw a few magnificas in the wild with slightly gaping mouths. Many others had puffy stomach tissue sticking out. Not sure what that is worth, but that is what I saw.

 

[SVXH6]

it looks really bad now.. mouth fully gaping open and very loose.. i do not think it will make it.. im copntemplating flushing it o it just doesnt waste away(or die slowly) and foul the water..

 

[OrionN]

Don't throw it out untill you see it start to fall apart. When my Mangifica divided, it took hime several days and look really bad though out.
Make a loop with rubberband and you can help him pinch the bad part off. I would not cut it. Don't feed it now. It won't eat and just worsen the problem. If you really want to feed it, use mysis shrimps.
Good luck.

 

[55semireef]

Pictures would be nice.

 

[SVXH6]

he did picnh the bad part off himself.. he looks a little better now.. im gonna do a water change to see if that will help.. ill try and get some pics.. and he is not falling apart either..

 

[55semireef]

Do like a 10 percent water change. Stability right now is the best thing you can do for your Ritteri.

 

[SVXH6]

i know the answer but i would like others insight.. you think a clown pair hosting make the situation worse?? from my experience clowns hosting a sick anemone have made things better.. what do you think??

 

[55semireef]

Well if your asking anyone in general, I think it would help to have clowns. Right now I am bringing back an LTA that I bought purposely to save and no clowns host it My Clarkiis are fixed on the Heteractis Malu and the S. Haddoni I already have in the tank. The LTA is slowly coming along but I think if clowns were to host it, it would help the anemone stay clean. The clowns would clean the anemones waste and provide the anemone with extra oxygen due to the current created by the clownfishes movements.