elegance coral
They call me EC
I personally would not try feeding it while its mouth is open like that.
Randy's Red Haddoni
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Thanks. I expect the current water quality is pretty good, with lots of filtration of various sorts (several large refugia, skimming, ozone, and carbon), and the volume is pretty large (more than 300 gallons), but I will continue and possibly accelerate my routine 1% daily water changes. 
Haddonisreef
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I just have to say thanks for the info elegance! As i have a couple carpets (blue and red) and iam always trying to learn more about these guys keep it up!
All i have done in this stage w/ my red Randy, i let my lfs qt it for me and after 14 days she came home. Once your past the first coupple of weeks you be able to sleep its almost like a new born!
All i have done in this stage w/ my red Randy, i let my lfs qt it for me and after 14 days she came home. Once your past the first coupple of weeks you be able to sleep its almost like a new born!
Randy I have always had bad luck with Mag's I would look into treating and setting up a qt tank with Doxycycline.
Mags? Magnificas?
Mags? Magnificas?
rkelman
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I agree with elegance. I wouldn't feed it either. They can go a very long time without food so feeding before its ready will only stress it more. I wouldn't panic about the mouth being open. I would feel better if it was closed but this is only day 2 right? No worries yet. Its not gaping badly. Its a beauty good luck with it!
Flighty
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My opinion is No food while there is a chance that it is battling an infection from shipping. The food will just be food for the bacteria or whatever is in there to bloom on. It will not die of starvation for years under your lighting, but an infection taking hold will get it quickly.
MarinaP
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I would not feed it either for now. I would not treat with antibiotics.
Red and pink ones are pretty tough compared to purple ones ime. Yours looks good for an aclimating animal. Good luck with it. You do not have large angels in your tank, do you? One of my pink haddoni was devoured by a majestic
Red and pink ones are pretty tough compared to purple ones ime. Yours looks good for an aclimating animal. Good luck with it. You do not have large angels in your tank, do you? One of my pink haddoni was devoured by a majestic
Thanks. Have you ever treated a haddoni with antibiotics?
Toddrtrex
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13440071#post13440071 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MarinaP
I would not feed it either for now. I would not treat with antibiotics.
Red and pink ones are pretty tough compared to purple ones ime. Yours looks good for an aclimating animal. Good luck with it. You do not have large angels in your tank, do you? One of my pink haddoni was devoured by a majestic
I had to move my blue Haddoni because of my blue face, took a couple of months, but after that the blue face loved the taste of it. Though it leaves my tan one alone -- because of my Clarkii pair.
No angels in the tank, or any others that might cause harm. No interest in the haddoni by any of the clowns.
Boy, this anemone is making me tense.
I haven't been this tense about any reef thing since I won a 90 gallon tank filled with 50 fish at MACNA, and then had to deal with buckets of fish all over the place.
Not much to report today, but it looks incredibly beautiful and is striking from 30 feet away.
After being somewhat less expanded during the night, it is a bit more expanded today than yesterday, with it folded up into a nine arm flower configuration. The foot is still mostly in the sand with a little par of it attached to the rock behind it. It has no apparent reaction to t GSP which it sometimes is laying on.
The verrucae near the outer edge of it are sticky, as I can see that it has attached some to nearby rocks. But the mouth is still open about the same.
Boy, this anemone is making me tense.
I haven't been this tense about any reef thing since I won a 90 gallon tank filled with 50 fish at MACNA, and then had to deal with buckets of fish all over the place.Not much to report today, but it looks incredibly beautiful and is striking from 30 feet away.
After being somewhat less expanded during the night, it is a bit more expanded today than yesterday, with it folded up into a nine arm flower configuration. The foot is still mostly in the sand with a little par of it attached to the rock behind it. It has no apparent reaction to t GSP which it sometimes is laying on.
The verrucae near the outer edge of it are sticky, as I can see that it has attached some to nearby rocks. But the mouth is still open about the same.
A typical MACNA display tank. Maybe it wasn't 50. Maybe 40, but it was a lot. Sadly, many died.
Still not much change, not almost 3 days since putting it into the tank. Still looks incredible. The foot as fully moved to the sand against the rock.
I removed the temporary rock that I had put between it and the h. crispa (middle bottom of photo below) to allow more flow to the haddoni in case that is beneficial.
Here's a whole tank shot from Saturday (24 h in tank) to see how it is situated, but the photo is far from showing how stunning it looks:
I removed the temporary rock that I had put between it and the h. crispa (middle bottom of photo below) to allow more flow to the haddoni in case that is beneficial.
Here's a whole tank shot from Saturday (24 h in tank) to see how it is situated, but the photo is far from showing how stunning it looks:
OK, Day 5 of the haddoni in the tank seems to be starting out to be a good one. The last two nights, starting near the end of the light cycle, the anemone totally shrank down to about the diameter of the column itself. It had not done that any earlier days.
Last night, when squinched down, there was some brown wispy stuff being ejected from the mouth, and then carried away in the water flow. Maybe waste? Maybe zoox as it adjusts to my lighting?? I remember a bubble coral I had years ago (still have, for that matter) used to release such a material fairly frequently, and a yellow tank loved to eat it. I hope this isn't a bad sign.
Any way, each night it later reinflated, and today it is nicely reinflated again and, here's the part that has me hopeful, the mouth is smaller. Still not closed, but smaller than any earlier day.
Here's a photo about 10-15 minutes after lights on this morning:
Last night, when squinched down, there was some brown wispy stuff being ejected from the mouth, and then carried away in the water flow. Maybe waste? Maybe zoox as it adjusts to my lighting?? I remember a bubble coral I had years ago (still have, for that matter) used to release such a material fairly frequently, and a yellow tank loved to eat it. I hope this isn't a bad sign.
Any way, each night it later reinflated, and today it is nicely reinflated again and, here's the part that has me hopeful, the mouth is smaller. Still not closed, but smaller than any earlier day.
Here's a photo about 10-15 minutes after lights on this morning:
puter
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Every haddoni anemone I've gotten has secreted brown stuff within the first week or two of arrival regardless of whether I've fed them. In and of itself that's not necessarily a bad sign.
Of more concern is the inflating and deflating. Again, not uncommon in newly imported anemones. But, despite the fact that the anemone looks very good right now, I don't think you're "safe" with these anemones until you reach the 6-8 week mark.
One thing to look for is if, when deflating, it everts part of the "stomach" as opposed to just shrinking down... not a good sign if it does, IME.
Mark
Of more concern is the inflating and deflating. Again, not uncommon in newly imported anemones. But, despite the fact that the anemone looks very good right now, I don't think you're "safe" with these anemones until you reach the 6-8 week mark.
One thing to look for is if, when deflating, it everts part of the "stomach" as opposed to just shrinking down... not a good sign if it does, IME.
Mark
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puter
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Here's an example of what to look for (and hope not to find)...
As the anemone declines, it everts more and more of the innards. There always seems to be brown gunk in there that they're trying desperately to get rid of.
That's one of the reasons that I'm not a fan of feeding them too early.
Mark
As the anemone declines, it everts more and more of the innards. There always seems to be brown gunk in there that they're trying desperately to get rid of.
That's one of the reasons that I'm not a fan of feeding them too early.
Mark
elegance coral
They call me EC
It looks much better in the last pic.
The shrinking and discharging nasty stuff is what I was talking about in my earlier post. Hopefully it has cleaned itself out and will continue to improve. As long as it doesn't start crashing on a regular basis you should be in good shape. Twice in the first 5 days isn't all that bad.
Please keep us posted. I can't wait to see this thing fully opened.
The shrinking and discharging nasty stuff is what I was talking about in my earlier post. Hopefully it has cleaned itself out and will continue to improve. As long as it doesn't start crashing on a regular basis you should be in good shape. Twice in the first 5 days isn't all that bad.
Please keep us posted. I can't wait to see this thing fully opened.
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