Magnifica not doing well

[Navyblue]

I have it for a week.

It has been avoiding light and current. And now it has fold itself into a crevice, mouth down.

This is during light off, when the light is on the tentacles would shrink into a round knob.

It can close its mouth properly, but would not accept food. I have a feeling it is too weak to move food into its mouth. The foot hold is rather weak, I can peel it off from rock quite easily. But this time it seems to resist coming off the rock, I thought it is a good sign and I leave it there. But I also think it might be too weak to get out of the crevice, it does not seem to have the ability to move against the current.

It has floated a few times.

What can I do here?

 

[OrionN]

If it is not continue to do better, it will not make it.
Leave it alone. Do not try to remove it from the rock. You can either try to provide it with the best care (good tank condition) and hope for the best. Another option is to take it out of your DT and treat it with antibiotic in a hospital tank. It it is not too late in the course of the bacterial infection (I think this is what your aneomone have), you likely can treat sucessfully with antibiotic. See the thread attached below.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2220652

 

[OrionN]

Why are your other corals does not seem to do well? Is your tank condition optimal?

 

[Navyblue]

From time to time the anemone seems to spit out brown stuffs, I also suspect bacterial infection. But I have yet to find out where I can get that antibiotic around here.

The tank has been set up for years, and the chaeto fuge keeps the nitrate very near 0 and is stable.

Why do you say that my other corals is not doing well? From the photo? The frogspawn in the picture is always open when the light is on, when the light is off it goes in and out. I could use more flow for the SPS, but I have yet to find a way to do it without upsetting the softies and the anemones. I turned off a power head or this magnifica would float away.

 

[OrionN]

Is that a night picture? I missed that it is a night picture. I guess that is why the LPS retracted, not doing poorly. Sorry.
You can get Cipro online at Drs. Foster&Smith without prescription.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=12101

 

[Navyblue]

No problem at all.

I have read the thread. Since sooner treatment highly relates to survivability, I think I'll try to look for it in the LFS tomorrow. I think I should be able to find at least some kind of antibiotic if I can't get the cipro. Or else I'll go online, which would take a while to come.

Regarding the brown stuffs that it expels, how likely would the infection stop on its own?

Thanks.

 

[Navyblue]

Regarding the awkward position that the anemone is in, I think it is trying to squeeze through the crevice to reach the right side of the rock column in the picture, which is sheltered from current and light. Or may be it is hoping that it can float away once it reached there.

The upside is it seems to be strong enough to move around.

Regarding the contraction during light on, what does it really mean? Is it that when it is having bacterial infection, the energy generated by the zoox would make it more sick?

 

[Navyblue]

Update, it had unfolded itself, and looking good. It is partially sitting on the skeleton of that frogspawn.

I think it is stronger more mobile than I thought. May be it is improving? If it learns to like light and current more and climb up that rock, or just be able to hold on to the rock firmly, I suppose I should just leave it alone?

 

[bradleym]

I would get the medication as a "just in case". I lost one that went from perfectly healthy and eating to dead and rotting in 11 days. It would look fine for about half the time, then deflate half the time. It would do this about 4-10 hours each way. By the time it stops inflating, it's too late.

 

[Navyblue]

This one isn't randomly inflating and deflating. It will inflate when the light is off and deflate when the light is on. And not sure if I can call it deflate, the tentacle would turn from straight to roundish while keeping largely the same size.

But then, if it is healthy, it should take in food.

At the moment it is doing some acrobatic, with the top side at where it was but the foot extend far back to the side of the rock.

 

[garygb]

You asked what the brown stuff is that it is expelling. That would most likely be zooxanthellae. Anemones often expel zooxanthellae after being shipped and while acclimating to new lighting. It is not something to worry about particularly. You just want to make sure you provide adequate light so the remaining zooxanthellae can flourish within the anemone's tissue.

 

[Navyblue]

Thanks, how about the shriveling during light on? This sounds like it is adjusting to the lighting. How long do they do this?

Edit: Today, for the first time I saw it wrap itself into a ball like a typical magnifica. In the past week it just fold up like a carpet anemone, I suppose it uses less strength. And when the light turn on, it unfold itself as if responding to capture the light. But still it transforms itself into a giant ricordea (round tentacle) and it is wedging itself in a crevice.

 

[OrionN]

Take a picture of it in the late afternoon near the end of the light cycle.

 

[Navyblue]

This is near the end of light cycle.

This is what I mean looking like a giant ricordea.

 

[Navyblue]

The anemone has now retreated further into shade, actually it took me a while to find it when I got home. I found it at the back of the tank on one of the big rock. If it grabs onto it like a normal anemone, getting it out would take some major work and would stress it further.

Now I gotta decide if it is merely just adjusting to light or it is having an infection. Is avoiding light and current a typical behaviour of anemone with bacterial infection?

In the meanwhile I got myself some of these:

http://www.aquarium-munster.com/index.php?con_cat=202&con_lang=2

It is not quite Ciprofloxacin but being a quinolone antibiotic too I suppose it's close enough?