my ritteri has arrived

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I think you may be under a false impression about university professors and sea anemones. Even if there is an anemone expert there (unlikely as there are not many in the world), I can't see why they would want your old dead anemone. A normal vet knows nothing about sea anemones. It is simply not taught at vet school, and there is nothing to really teach anyway since so little is known about anemone diseases.

If they want to study one to try to learn what makes them sick, they'd want to monitor living ones and see what is happening to them over time as they progress toward death. A necropsy of a rotting anemone for bacterial species is not going to be useful. There is no way to know which, if any, of those bacteria were present prior to death. FWIW, I study antimicrobials at work, so this type of study is something I'm fairly familiar with.

There is very little known about anemone diseases and causes of death, so they are not going to be able to tell what happened to it by examining it.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

w o w.
Are you serious?
:uzi::angryfire::headwally::headwalls::headwallblue::debi:

 

[jgmorr02]

Any updates (with pictures) on how this guy is doing? I've been tagging along.

 

[garygb]

M Woodhill, I saw your pic on another thread and the magnifica looks great. On that thread you mentioned that it deflates at 4. I agree with the advice that if that's the time it's deflating, reducing the lights just before that and slowly increasing the photoperiod should eliminate this problem. Best of continued luck with your specimen.

 

[M Woodhill]

M Woodhill, I saw your pic on another thread and the magnifica looks great. On that thread you mentioned that it deflates at 4. I agree with the advice that if that's the time it's deflating, reducing the lights just before that and slowly increasing the photoperiod should eliminate this problem. Best of continued luck with your specimen.

i don't know how the story will be endin

it used to deflate twice a day for about 3 hours as i mentioned

now it deflates only once a day either at 4 or 6 p.m.

i made the light shield and cover it at 4 for 3 days but it continues in the same way. yet i'm gonna go on puttin the cover. but the time of deflation doubles. so its deflation time per day continues in 6 or 7 hours

it can take some shrimp now but the chunks gotta be put near the mouth. otherwise it would struggled 20 minutes only in vain to put it into its mouth. i made it as u described no bigger than a peanut. one day i fed it with 2 chunks and then it deflated at 4 very badly and blew off some rest with mucus and purple waste. so i only feed it one chunk now

still of no confidence at all that it will be makin it. hopefully when i get my macro lens---damn the bestbuy for **** on verification blablabla, it still stands there and got some closer pix. actually it looks really awesome but pita it's badly sick spendin almost 1/3 of a day deflatin

 

[garygb]

I don't think it's "badly sick" as you put it. The deflation is more an indication of acclimating to your light than a harbinger of impending death. If your anemone had an infection, it would have perished by now I'm almost certain. If it deflates at 4, I would shade the area where the anemone is about 3:30pm and then every couple of days wait 15 minutes later. I can speak from experience, magnificas are very sensitive to changes in light. I initially had my oldest one under two 96-watt PC quads. When I changed to MH, it took well over a month for that anemone to start looking good.

As far as feeding it, I would try the peanut sized piece of food two or at most, three times per week. In time, when it's eagerly eating, you might increase that to two small peanut sized pieces of food. Small food is better for this species (and probably all species of anemone) as it is less likely to be regurgitated and is probably easier for the anemone to digest. I wish you could get some PE Mysis, it's high in protein, omega fats, and is a nice size for the anemone to digest. If you have Petco where you live perhaps they carry that brand, they do here in the U.S.

 

[M Woodhill]

I don't think it's "badly sick" as you put it. The deflation is more an indication of acclimating to your light than a harbinger of impending death. If your anemone had an infection, it would have perished by now I'm almost certain. If it deflates at 4, I would shade the area where the anemone is about 3:30pm and then every couple of days wait 15 minutes later. I can speak from experience, magnificas are very sensitive to changes in light. I initially had my oldest one under two 96-watt PC quads. When I changed to MH, it took well over a month for that anemone to start looking good.

As far as feeding it, I would try the peanut sized piece of food two or at most, three times per week. In time, when it's eagerly eating, you might increase that to two small peanut sized pieces of food. Small food is better for this species (and probably all species of anemone) as it is less likely to be regurgitated and is probably easier for the anemone to digest. I wish you could get some PE Mysis, it's high in protein, omega fats, and is a nice size for the anemone to digest. If you have Petco where you live perhaps they carry that brand, they do here in the U.S.

it ****ed off pe mysis

caught it and soon gave it up to the waves

 

[garygb]

Oh, I expected it would like them. If fresh shrimp from the supermarket is what it likes, give it that. Also, fresh fish such as trout, salmon, etc. will likely be eaten.