Treating multiple anemone species with Cipro

[Humongous]

So here is a question for the community. I have a sick Ritteri that I am going to begin treatment on by this Saturday at the latest. My LFS just received in and order which happened to have a blue gigantea(which they are holding for me) and a blue haddoni (which is clearly sick). They do not have Cipro but I do so I'm wondering if it's bad to segregate them in a tank and treat the two sick ones plus the gigantea(prophylactically).

What issues would arise if we did this? We basically have two free tanks to treat them in at the moment.

Thanks for the input!

 

[BonsaiNut]

If the gigantea is showing no sign of sickness, I wouldn't put it in a tank with two sick anemones. There is a risk that you may start with a healthy anemone and end up with a sick one.

Also, I have no idea how a ritteri and haddoni would do in a small tank together. You would have to physically separate them so they didn't touch, and there are a lot of possible complications. They might release chemicals into the water when sick/stressed. They could even be infected with two different kinds of bacteria that they spread to each other.

Personally, I would try to treat each one separately if you had the room (and it sounds like you do).

 

[OrionN]

Don't be greedy. Get the one that you really want and try to treat him if needed. If you treat three anemones separately, any of the treatment can fail but it only affect that anemone. If you treat all of them together, if one of the three fail, it will infected and cause failure with the other in the treatment tank.

IMO, if you threat three together, the rick of failure (and all three died) is three times the risk of treating one.

 

[Humongous]

Sorry I did not update sooner. We ended up getting three tanks for the reasons you both mentioned. I wanted to do it that way to begin with but didn't think we had the resources,I'm glad we did. The ritteri is clinging on for life and the other two have been separated in to their own tanks. I think the gigantea is fine but want to treat him so I don't risk infecting my current one.