my ritteri has arrived

[D-Nak]

If it helps any, I don't think it looks that bad. The mouth is definitely not gaping which is a good sign and the tentacles aren't fully deflated, so it definitely has some life left. And color-wise is doesn't looks bleached. Fingers are cross for ya. Good luck. Keep up the good work!

 

[M Woodhill]

If it helps any, I don't think it looks that bad. The mouth is definitely not gaping which is a good sign and the tentacles aren't fully deflated, so it definitely has some life left. And color-wise is doesn't looks bleached. Fingers are cross for ya. Good luck. Keep up the good work!

thanks guys

i've changed water today and as planned, increased the efficiency of water movement to 70% of mp10. as mr. B stated, i raised the mp10 closer to the surface of water so it does be agitatin the water now and suck in some air makin some microbubbles occasionally

cuz the room air is usually full of carbon dioxide, i don't know if doin so will dissolve carbon dioxide so much in the water to change ph dramatically

i'm gonna get one more 100 watts lamp to increase the lightin intense tomorrow

and if all the things go well, i'll finish the quarantine on sunday

the doc says for human it usually takes a week to battle bacterial infection--includin the vibrio spp. i've also ordered some enryth... a fish antibiotic that is widely used in koi ponds and fish farms to fight against vibrio spp. non prescription medicine

am tryin to get some hearwarm vets in ottawa still to get some enrofloxacin

gosh, i know abuse of antibiotics does huge harm but i'm very conscientious. i just apply it necessarily to the ritteri. i use bleachin powder to break the rest antibiotics and germs before pourin waste water down into the sewage. so what? i need it to save life. i showed pictures, told'em what i'm gonna do but none of'em showed me little mercy

i understand they face legal problems blabla problems. sigh!

the cut on foot

and after water change

bad news comes i broke my tropic marin phos eliminator. ordered brs replacement. sigh! all the ferric powders just spread in the sump. kinda impossible to suck out. just let it be and eliminate phosphate their. sigh!

 

[D-Nak]

Not to derail this thread, but can't you use a magnet to pull out the GFO?

Back on topic -- the nem looks like it's recovering nicely. Congrats!

 

[BonsaiNut]

First, I can't see any cut around the mouth. The cut on the foot does not look infected, and in my opinion may not even be a cut. Additionally, everything else I see about the anemone looks good.

If your room is full of carbon dioxide how are you able to be conscious? Atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% argon, and 1% everything else. I learned this as a Dive Master If your carbon dioxide is above .05%, I'd be surprised I wouldn't worry about super-saturating your water with carbon dioxide unless you were using a reactor or bubbling 100% carbon dioxide into your tank.

Microbubbles won't hurt an anemone as long as you aren't blowing bubbles directly into the mouth. After all, many of these anemones live near surf - and trust me there are PLENTY of microbubbles in the ocean.

 

[M Woodhill]

Not to derail this thread, but can't you use a magnet to pull out the GFO?

Back on topic -- the nem looks like it's recovering nicely. Congrats!

since it's ferric oxide. when it's saturated with phosphate, they won't released---checked my chemistry textbook

so just let it be there. it's tropic marin ferric oxide powders---just no much bigger than carbon. afraid to make another big mess

besides i guess my hanna phosphate readin is always weird. if i fulfill two bottles and dissolve the agent in one and put the other in as C1 and the one with pre-dissolved agent as C2, readin is always 0

if i use the same bottle. first put it in as c1 and dissolve the agent quickly into it and get it back as c2, the readin becomes kinda random, from 0.15-0.00, all possible

 

[M Woodhill]

First, I can't see any cut around the mouth. The cut on the foot does not look infected, and in my opinion may not even be a cut. Additionally, everything else I see about the anemone looks good.

If your room is full of carbon dioxide how are you able to be conscious? Atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% argon, and 1% everything else. I learned this as a Dive Master If your carbon dioxide is above .05%, I'd be surprised I wouldn't worry about super-saturating your water with carbon dioxide unless you were using a reactor or bubbling 100% carbon dioxide into your tank.

Microbubbles won't hurt an anemone as long as you aren't blowing bubbles directly into the mouth. After all, many of these anemones live near surf - and trust me there are PLENTY of microbubbles in the ocean.

believe, the day when i put it quarantined, the cut of mouth was horrible--but kinda hard to take a pic cuz the mouth widely opened and most of its inner part, i guss, was gaped out

and the cut on foot looked also worse than how it looks now. a deep cut with some dirty things on around the wound, as i mentioned, like mucus from injured corals

 

[M Woodhill]

and shake hands, i love scuba too

this tank of mine was inspired by one of my scuba experience around the blue sea at bintulu

all the fishes were met except my yellow tang and royal gramma--i don't know why i've never seen any yellow tang schools durin scuba.

the ritteri i met was even more awesome---green tentacles with red tips---awesome

it was huge, sittin high on a prominent rock--presumably a skeleton or what resemblin a huge tabular coral and lots of anthias swam along the reef

now i got the clownfish, longspine cardinalfish, dragonface pipefish to mimic a sea eel, and still wait for my 5 resplendent anthias

and my 2 favorite--yellow tang and royal gramma

so i do want this ritteri survive. probably that's what has driven me a little bit pinickin. too strong desire sometimes leads to too strong sensibility

pita i broke down the laptop where all the pix taken before 2009 was stored by pourin my coke onto the keyboard

 

[OrionN]

The anemone looks good, that is if it does not deflates during the late afternoon. Often sick Magnifica deflates at or near the end of lighting cycles. That is the reason may people decrease lighting. It seem to help.
Good luck. If you please keep track of how much you dose and what antibiotic was use. It would be a big help for someone who may try to do this in the future. There is just so few hard information on how to treat anemones.
Good luck with your beautiful Magnifica anemone.

 

[M Woodhill]

The anemone looks good, that is if it does not deflates during the late afternoon. Often sick Magnifica deflates at or near the end of lighting cycles. That is the reason may people decrease lighting. It seem to help.
Good luck. If you please keep track of how much you dose and what antibiotic was use. It would be a big help for someone who may try to do this in the future. There is just so few hard information on how to treat anemones.
Good luck with your beautiful Magnifica anemone.

since i figured out changin light irritates it, i didn't shut down the bathroom lamp

i'll be addin one 100 watts and switch it on and off accordin to the dt lightin

 

[OrionN]

You may want to have one or two of the clip on light with those day light or cool light compact florescent screw on bulbs. The largest one you can find 25 W or something like that. I would use two of those close to the water surface and it should give enough light for your treatment tank and won't cost too much

 

[M Woodhill]

You may want to have one or two of the clip on light with those day light or cool light compact florescent screw on bulbs. The largest one you can find 25 W or something like that. I would use two of those close to the water surface and it should give enough light for your treatment tank and won't cost too much

i got a macro-glo that is very suitable but it broke down within a fortnight:angryfire:

poor jbj quality

i'm puttin on a 9 watts light for my 3 gallon nano

probably it's a good sign that when i switched on the light, it at least tried to ball up rather than lie itself flat and dry up--yet parts of it still deflate but the mouth kept close

 

[M Woodhill]

now its mouth starts to gape. i'm watchin closely

 

[AD87]

its keeps fighting! thats a good sign, can you get us a picture of it when the mouth gapes really bad?

 

[M Woodhill]

its keeps fighting! thats a good sign, can you get us a picture of it when the mouth gapes really bad?

yup, now it's gettin better

poor thing i guess i spent too much energy of mine on it and caught a cold

now a sick man with a sick nem

and i don't know what little white thing it caught in current. it expelled it outa the mouth and then the mouth started to close

 

[M Woodhill]

mouth pix

didn't get the worse but the last is almost 70% worst

then

 

[M Woodhill]

btw, can i quarantine an anemone crab with it?

presumably a crab will clean it up by eatin up the mucus or expelled waste

 

[OrionN]

You are treating it, not quarantine it. I would not put anything else with it. No crab. It is a treatment tank not quarantine tank IMO

 

[M Woodhill]

emm

ok, i'm preparin a light shield for the return of my mag as scheduled on sunday

 

[M Woodhill]

The anemone looks good, that is if it does not deflates during the late afternoon. Often sick Magnifica deflates at or near the end of lighting cycles. That is the reason may people decrease lighting. It seem to help.
Good luck. If you please keep track of how much you dose and what antibiotic was use. It would be a big help for someone who may try to do this in the future. There is just so few hard information on how to treat anemones.
Good luck with your beautiful Magnifica anemone.

well, i don't know if this small 9 watts lightin counts

but if so, the nem hasn't deflated completely yet in the late afternoon

 

[garygb]

It looks pretty good in those pics. I would provide it with light, as Orion suggested and keep a tab on the water quality, e.g., specific gravity and nitrates, keeping sg at 1.026-1.027 and nitrates undetectable. As Bonsai said, good water flow and good water quality and hopefully your mag will be ready to return to your DT soon.