Red Haddon Anemone

[kokoui]

Hi guys! I have a 100 liter system and have recently acquired (2 days ago) a red haddoni anemone. Unfortunately, the mouth of the anemone still remains open and I am not sure whether I should start some kind of treatment. I have been reading about the use of ciprofloxacin but not sure if I should start it yet given its current appearance and the fact that is in my display tank. I would appreciate every help.

 

[bradleym]

It looks healthy enough for a new addition. Can you share your parameters? Temp, alk, salinity, NO3, and PO4 are most important.

 

[griss]

@OrionN

 

[kokoui]

It looks healthy enough for a new addition. Can you share your parameters? Temp, alk, salinity, NO3, and PO4 are most important.

Hi Bradleym. Thanks. It’s 25c,8.1,1.025,0 and 0.03

 

[OrionN]

it looks good. Open mouth or not is not really all that important unless it is a lot more than showed in pictures above.
Send picture of it looking at its worst. That is what is needed to decide if it need to be treat.
Nice anemone.

 

[OrionN]

The sense of food in the water will cause it to open the mouth a lot more. Inflated lip too if this is the case.

 

[kokoui]

it looks good. Open mouth or not is not really all that important unless it is a lot more than showed in pictures above.
Send picture of it looking at its worst. That is what is needed to decide if it need to be treat.
Nice anemone.

Thanks @OrionN . I will try to take a pic tomorrow if it gets worse. Already supplied myself with some ciprofloxacin (human grade though). Currently that is its state:

 

[kokoui]

The sense of food in the water will cause it to open the mouth a lot more. Inflated lip too if this is the case.

Haven’t seen actually a difference at its mouth when feeding. Of course haven’t tried to feed it directly in order not to stress it.

 

[bradleym]

It looks healthy, and it sounds like you're doing all the right things. Something to keep in mind, that amount of "open mouth" is not necessarily a sign of trouble. When I had a Haddoni it would look like that even if it was moving it's foot around under the sand. So in this case, it could simply indicate that it hasn't decided if it is comfortable yet in it's new location.

The only advice I would give, keeping your nitrates at 0 can be detrimental to your corals and anemones. I doubt this is the cause of your current concern, but you may want to target 5-15ppm instead to promote photosynthesis.

 

[kokoui]

It looks healthy, and it sounds like you're doing all the right things. Something to keep in mind, that amount of "open mouth" is not necessarily a sign of trouble. When I had a Haddoni it would look like that even if it was moving it's foot around under the sand. So in this case, it could simply indicate that it hasn't decided if it is comfortable yet in it's new location.

The only advice I would give, keeping your nitrates at 0 can be detrimental to your corals and anemones. I doubt this is the cause of your current concern, but you may want to target 5-15ppm instead to promote photosynthesis.

Thanks bradleym for your valuable comments. Have been trying to increase it to been honest by overfeeding but it seems that the refugium is doing too good work. Maybe I should turn off the skimmer?