My 4th Magnifica...

[dirtyBit]

I have one Mag and my experience with it was similar in that it did look deflated when I first got it.

Over the course of a few days it started to look better and I moved it higher in the rock work.

It began to open up slowly and made it's way up my overflow.

Now it's been sitting proudly at the very top and has not moved in about a year.

I hope yours will recover. I learned that it likes both light and flow but it seems to prefer light over flow if given a choice. In the last picture you can see that I have a powerhead aimed underneath it but not directly at it. It's tentacles like to sway in the flow. The powerheads on the other side of the tank are aimed at it but they are further away and don't seem to bother it. Good luck.

 

[OrionN]

dirtyBit,
Do you worry that he may obstruct your overflow enough to flood your tank? Or got suck in and injure himself?

 

[dirtyBit]

dirtyBit,
Do you worry that he may obstruct your overflow enough to flood your tank? Or got suck in and injure himself?

The water going over the overflow is lowered so that the water level is at about the halfway mark. He only goes as high as the water level and so water just trickles over his tentacles. In any case the overflow box is lower than the height of the tank so even if he clogs the front, water will just overflow into the overflow box from the top. I am worried that not enough gunk floating in the water gets taken out because he blocks most of it. So I have to syphon to remove as much detritus as I can during water changes.

At this point I really don't know where else he could go in this tank. The last picture in my previous post was taken in May and I've added a lot more corals and those in the picture have grown. Pretty much out of real estate.

Cell phone pic just taken:

 

[flakey]

Thats a nice mag dirtybit.
Well, 9 hours in i notice the tenticles of my mag are falling apart. it really wasn't working for me, whether it be the tank size or the antibiotics i used (i can't get the stuff you guys have in the US) so i had to move it back into the display tank. It's mouth is open but it is inflated. I'll have to just leave it alone and see what happens...

 

[ct_vol]

Didn't realize you weren't in the US... Best of luck.

 

[M Woodhill]

Thats a nice mag dirtybit.
Well, 9 hours in i notice the tenticles of my mag are falling apart. it really wasn't working for me, whether it be the tank size or the antibiotics i used (i can't get the stuff you guys have in the US) so i had to move it back into the display tank. It's mouth is open but it is inflated. I'll have to just leave it alone and see what happens...

Finger cross. The mouth isn't a big problem, nor It shaking off the tentacles. Mine lost half of tentacles when I purchased it. But now it regrows all the loss. The inflation and deflation is the horn of the death. I had two before, neither survived. The first disappeared and the second I moved out when I brought this home. When it starts the circle, it becomes more prone to moving around, in particular to those shadowed corners. I guess that is a conclusive sign of a sick ritteri, being away from light and wave. Then the clowns discard it.

 

[flakey]

I'm at work but wife says it looks better than she's ever seen it to look. Looking at the picture, i have to agree with her. Mybe a antibiotic dip helped a little? Mouth looks ok'ish. Lights are ramping up...

Told her to keep an eye out for if/when it deflates or the tenticles go all stringy and make a note of the time so I can see if there is a pattern. Maybe to do with light?

 

[dirtyBit]

That is looking better. Mouth is not gaping and tentacles are perky. They look a little stubby but not bad. Have you tried feeding it? Does it accept food? Good luck.

 

[psusocr]

IMO i would just let it be and i thin it will be fine..i find no matter what corals including nems, the more you move them ad mess witht hem the more they hate you...

 

[flakey]

Finger cross. The mouth isn't a big problem, nor It shaking off the tentacles. Mine lost half of tentacles when I purchased it. But now it regrows all the loss. The inflation and deflation is the horn of the death. I had two before, neither survived. The first disappeared and the second I moved out when I brought this home. When it starts the circle, it becomes more prone to moving around, in particular to those shadowed corners. I guess that is a conclusive sign of a sick ritteri, being away from light and wave. Then the clowns discard it.

yes, i will leave it as it is. funny thing is, the mouth has now been closed quite nicely for most of the day. one change from the last time it was in the DT is i have turn half of the LEDs off. when you say your one went to the dark corners, was it looking healthy'ish like my one in the picture today or did it look sick?

It was in another antibiotic thread that someone said their mag always deflated at the same time of the day and he adjusted his lighting schedule to shut down just before it deflated every day and slowly ramped it up. Not sure if thats whats happening to mine but just somethin i will bear in mind over the next few days.

i put some mysis in the tank and some did stick to the tenticles, but the greedy clowns ate it all. i will leave things as it is and just hope for the best now.

 

[garygb]

I hope those who choose to use antibiotics research how to properly dispose of water containing antibiotic (I've heard bleach, but unsure of the mixing ratio). I think it is a serious concern putting antibiotics into the environment. I personally believe that the use of antibiotics for anemone recovery is questionable, at best. Sometimes there is success, as often there is failure, and no one can make any reliable assessment whether the antibiotics were the reason for success when it does occur. Some have had what appears to be success as long as the anemone is in water with antibiotics, but then when returned to the display, tank it begins to fail (a gigantea thread comes to mind). Whatever the case, for those who do choose to use antibiotics, please use those drugs judiciously.

 

[Reddevil258]

Wow never thought of that. Thanks for the info!

 

[flakey]

Oh, never thought of that.... Thanks

Anyway, time for an undate, since moving the mag back into my DT it has looked a lot better. The mouth is tightly closed up until 9pm/10pm at night, then it begins to open up a little, see pic. In the mornings it's mouth is nicely closed. As mentioned previously, from reading another thread someone suggested the mag has had enough light and suggested decreasing the light/time and slowly ramp it up which is what i am in the process of doing.
The mag has also not deflated at all and it is standing up on it's foot and looking very good compared to pre-anti-biotic dip when it was deflated and lying flat on the rock with it's mouth wide open flapping about in the flow.

Here is a picture of the mag at night when it's mouth opens up (at it's worse). I am quietly confident this mag will make a healthy recovery.

 

[flakey]

Well it lookslike i spoke too soon. over the following days, the mouth opened up more and more and i had to remove him from the tank today as he was falling apart.....

 

[Tmoriarty]

Sorry to hear that, sometimes that is the fate of these animals.

 

[OrionN]

I am sorry to hear about your anemone.

 

[hypnoj]

crap... sorry to hear about that. I was pulling for you.

 

[Tmoriarty]

Figured I would toss this picture up. A lot of people spoke about problems between BTA's and Magnificas. I was suppose to post a picture but never got around to it. I have had this magnifica in the tank for a month now (second magnifica in the tank) it is inches away from a BTA. While there has been some interaction the winner has been the Magnifica with the BTA staying retracted on the side nearest the magnifica (Unable to move the BTA or I would, it is footed deep in a hole)

Just showing that there is not as much of a problem with this matchup as there is potentially with other matchups.

 

[flakey]

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I think i did make some fundermental mistakes, the major one not putting it directly into my display tank and my quaranteen tank probably being too small.
Tmoriarty, it's good to see your picture of the mag and BTA together. one less thing to worry about.