Hey guys, could anyone help to ID those two nems please? And, are they healthy looking? Both of those guys were treated with cipro for two weeks. They have since been in my DT for about 3 weeks now (still not removed from my pyrex yet).
Need some help to ID nems
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ocellaris123
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Both are S. haddoni; the smaller one is bleached but if healthy and provided proper conditions should recover on its own.
Thanks. How long does it normally take for a bleached nem get back in its proper color? My parameters are stable, tank been up for nearly a year and half.
My Radion gen 2 just got fried recently, so they are currently under some crappy finex LEDs, I have two 60 watt LED spot lights pointing at them (soft white color).
I thought the larger one might be a gigantea, but oh well. It just ate an emerald crab for desert yesterday.
ocellaris123
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A month or two under proper conditions
I moved both of them from the pyrex they were staying in after my last post. The smaller guy seems ok with moving and settled underneath a rock into the sand fine, but what a pain it was to move that little bugger!
The larger one was easier to remove (still took a good 15 mins), got settled and everything looked fine. It ate again today.
Could it be possible that the smaller nem is that color naturally? Strangely, it does not really take the food offered.
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
No it's not naturally that color, and it's probably not eating because of how bleached it is.
Could it die from that? The larger guy shivered up yesterday to about half of its fully expanded size, strangely, no stringy tentacles or gasping mouth. That continued for half a day. So I thought he might be hungry and fed him a small piece of shrimp and he was inflated after meal! Was that a nem's sign of hunger?
Thanks for your input.
Alright, treatment for the larger guy started two days ago after seeing persistent deflation. The smaller guy is fine in DT and seeing some colors coming back to its tips.
The larger guy somehow just recovers in a heartbeat after putting into the HT. I am suspecting he was stressed by the nitrate (5-10 ppm) in my tank. Did a 30% water change and vacuumed some detritus out. I'll resume using biopellets and bacteria dosing today.
I'll HT that larger guy for another week or so until I see little or no nitrate in my tank. I'll leave the smaller guy in the DT for the time being, he seems to not responding to that nitrate level.
The larger guy somehow just recovers in a heartbeat after putting into the HT. I am suspecting he was stressed by the nitrate (5-10 ppm) in my tank. Did a 30% water change and vacuumed some detritus out. I'll resume using biopellets and bacteria dosing today.
I'll HT that larger guy for another week or so until I see little or no nitrate in my tank. I'll leave the smaller guy in the DT for the time being, he seems to not responding to that nitrate level.
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