OrionN
Moved on
As some of you may have know, one of my Gigantea got sick last week before I go on vacation. Because I am not here to treat him, I tried a different way of treatment and it seem to have good chance of success.
What happened was that I went to a Japanese restaurant for sushi last week. I bought back two slides of fresh tuna in my "fishy bag" for the anemones. Chopping them up in a cutting board, I took the whole board into my fish room to feed my 7 anemones in the large tank. After feeding three of the 7 anemones, I was clumsy and knock the whole cutting board into my skimmer waste container (a five gallon salt bucket) next to the tank. I fish the four pieces of tuna out of that bucket and wash it multiple times in fresh water. After judging that the tuna was fine (my mistake) I fed the remaining 4 anemones with the 4 pieces of tuna.
The next day one of the four deflated later in the day. He did it again the next 2 days. Deflated three days in roll just not normal for my Gigantea. The other five Gigantea and the lone Haddoni were all fine. This is two days before I go on vacation for 5 days.
I took him to another system, he again deflated the next day. Instead of risking him dying and kill all the coral in that system, I decided to set up a treatment tank for him. Not having much time, I decided to treat him with a much more aggressive treatment regiment.
I put him in my hospital tank, with the same light I used before. I put the whole live rock with him because I don't want to stress him more and the rock was just impossible to easy remove him from. You will see when you see the picture.
The first night I treat him with 500 mg Cipro in 10 gal of water. The next day, he seem a little better and the water was crystal clear. Instead of change the water, I just added 250 mg Cipro to it right before I went on vacation for 5 days. I have a tank sitter and ask him to text me a picture of the anemone every time he come to feed the tank.
This was 4/12. I did not take any picture prior to treatment.
Here is picture on 4/13 about 5 PM
4/15. Pictures on 4/14 and 4/16 day time is about the same as this.
4/16 When i got home last night
I did a 100% water change and add 250 mg Cipro last night. The anemone looks great tonight. I did a 50% water change and add 250 mg Cipro tonight. Here is a picture right before I did the water change at about 9 PM
Wish me luck. I think this anemone will make it. I OD him with antibiotic and this seem to help keep the infection at bay until I return home to treat him. I did not want to ask my tank sitter to treat the anemone also. I think this was the best I could have done. It seem to have work in this case
What happened was that I went to a Japanese restaurant for sushi last week. I bought back two slides of fresh tuna in my "fishy bag" for the anemones. Chopping them up in a cutting board, I took the whole board into my fish room to feed my 7 anemones in the large tank. After feeding three of the 7 anemones, I was clumsy and knock the whole cutting board into my skimmer waste container (a five gallon salt bucket) next to the tank. I fish the four pieces of tuna out of that bucket and wash it multiple times in fresh water. After judging that the tuna was fine (my mistake) I fed the remaining 4 anemones with the 4 pieces of tuna.
The next day one of the four deflated later in the day. He did it again the next 2 days. Deflated three days in roll just not normal for my Gigantea. The other five Gigantea and the lone Haddoni were all fine. This is two days before I go on vacation for 5 days.
I took him to another system, he again deflated the next day. Instead of risking him dying and kill all the coral in that system, I decided to set up a treatment tank for him. Not having much time, I decided to treat him with a much more aggressive treatment regiment.
I put him in my hospital tank, with the same light I used before. I put the whole live rock with him because I don't want to stress him more and the rock was just impossible to easy remove him from. You will see when you see the picture.
The first night I treat him with 500 mg Cipro in 10 gal of water. The next day, he seem a little better and the water was crystal clear. Instead of change the water, I just added 250 mg Cipro to it right before I went on vacation for 5 days. I have a tank sitter and ask him to text me a picture of the anemone every time he come to feed the tank.
This was 4/12. I did not take any picture prior to treatment.
Here is picture on 4/13 about 5 PM
4/15. Pictures on 4/14 and 4/16 day time is about the same as this.
4/16 When i got home last night
I did a 100% water change and add 250 mg Cipro last night. The anemone looks great tonight. I did a 50% water change and add 250 mg Cipro tonight. Here is a picture right before I did the water change at about 9 PM
Wish me luck. I think this anemone will make it. I OD him with antibiotic and this seem to help keep the infection at bay until I return home to treat him. I did not want to ask my tank sitter to treat the anemone also. I think this was the best I could have done. It seem to have work in this case
