Ritteri/Magnifica help.

[biglurr54]

I am looking to prepare to get a Magnifica/Ritteri Anemone. My tank is 8 months old and doing great. I am looking to get the mag in 2-4 months. My question is on Qting the anemone. I know with most Anemone's, QTing can be counterproductive and just add more stress to the animal. The more delicate Mag's seem to do better with QTing/antibiotic treatments. If Qting is advised, I figured I could set up a 20 gallon with a 150w Halide and cycle for 3 weeks then add a clown (already Qted and in DT) and cycle for 3 more weeks. Then add the Anemone.

I run a halide with LED supplement on the DT so the lighting will be very similar from the QT to the DT. From my research it appears that antibiotic treatments extremely improve the survival rate of the specimen.

My plan is to order the Mag from an online source. Do two 24 hour antibiotic treatment courses as soon as the anemone arrives in 5 gallon buckets.

After the treatments I can add the anemone to the DT or to QT. Does it make sense to QT the Anemone after the treatment or is it better to just add the Anemone right into the DT and monitor it. I can have an Anemone QT set up and cycled in the case the mag takes a turn for the worse I can transfer it out of DT to QT for further treatment.



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[joshky]

I wouldn't do two days of prophylactic antibiotic treatment if you're not planning on doing at least a full seven days, cutting off treatment early is a much bigger problem than waiting for symptoms of a sick anemone to show. I assume you don't have another mag in your tank currently established so I would skip putting it into a QT and put it in your display on something that can be removed if necessary. Skip cycling the QT, once antibiotics are used it'll kill it off anyways so there's no point to it.

Be sure to go over this thread thoroughly, a lot of what you're planning on doing just seems to be made up and misinformation.

 

[ca1ore]

I agree. Assuming no resident mag, I'd put it right into the display assuming it looks good initially. If it shows any signs of the daily inflate/deflate cycles then get it into treatment right away and do a full 7 day treatment.