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Sorry to hear about your nem, cipro is only good for bacterial infections... what are your water parameters? Any major change?I have a BTA that has been with me for 2 years now. Has never really grown and has never split either, but has almost always been fully inflated. About 6 months ago I moved him to my grow-out tank while I took down my DT. Until recently he was fine in that tank, in spite of some instability that tank has experienced. For the last 5 days he has been a 3 or 4 on your chart and i'm not sure what set him off. I moved him to a lower flow position, and his tentacles seem a little fuller today, but still very short and mouth is open.
Your protocol seems to be specifically for newly acquired anemones, but there was some mention of applying it to established nems that appear sick. So my questions are:
1) At what point would you treat an established anemone? Specifically, would you treat in my case? What else would you try first?
2) If I do treat i'm considering the following variation to your protocol: at lights off for his tank, move him and the small rock he's on to a half-full 5 gal bucked that is heated and pre-dosed with CIpro. Provide water movement via airstone, which will provide light flow in that low volume of water. At lights on move him back to his tank. Repeat this process for the duration of the treatment. Do you think this would work?
Thanks
Yeah I understand that. The question is, could the anemone have picked up a bacterial infection when stressed due to parameter swings. My phosphate spiked up to .13 PPM, which (i'm guessing) caused my alk consumption to drop. Over the course of the week between my alk and PO4 tests, my alk spiked from 7.2 DKH to 10.6 DKH. I'm guessing that's what stressed him. My parameters are back in line now at .03 PPM phosphate and 7.8 DKH. I'm testing alk daily now, so i'm doing what I can about stability, but it doesn't undo what already happened.Sorry to hear about your nem, cipro is only good for bacterial infections... what are your water parameters? Any major change?
He hasn't deflated during the day. Just several days in a row of short tentacles and open mouth. He has deflated completely at night several days in a row, but he's always done that periodically. So just to be clear, you're talking about body completely deflated during the day right?If he deflates twice in a row, it is time to treat.
You can get a prescription from a veterinarian - I would not necessarily trust 'online' sources - due to impurities, dose abnormalities, etcAnd where can I get it without a prescription? Seems all places require a prescription.
I bought cipro through Chewy.I will be receiving a carpet nem directly from Viet Nam. It will land at LAX and ship overnight to me. I am assuming the carpet will be in pretty bad shape due to the amount of travel time.
Do you suggest any changes to the protocol since it will have been in transit for quite some time? ( This will be my first experience with a carpet nem.)
I have cipro but I will be getting the other 2 meds asap. How much of the other 2 meds do you suggest I get?
Thank you! I'm guessing I will be back here when I have the carpet.
Of that’s the only thing I wouldn’t treat itI called and asked the vet I take my fog/cats to and they will not write a script for the Cipro.
What about if my nem sometimes has long tentacles and sometimes short? It's a rbta that lost its bubbles after the one and only time I fed it.
Only deflates sometimes at night but has been improving. Still has short tentacles/ bubbled, is an rbta. It is constantly moving. Mouth is randomly gaping, but mostly not. Just a note, this rbta never had bubble tips in the nano it came from until I moved it to my reefer 350. It was the split from the parent in my nano. I have been adding a splash of stability and biospira the last week but not sure that has anything to do with it. This is a 1 year cycled tank with no fish, a couple crabs and snails and a small clump of chaeto and some sps/lpsOf that’s the only thing I wouldn’t treat it
If it’s mouth is gapping, if it deflated and stays that way for long periods of it showing it filaments then I would
Pictures ?Only deflates sometimes at night but has been improving. Still has short tentacles/ bubbled, is an rbta. It is constantly moving. Mouth is randomly gaping, but mostly not. Just a note, this rbta never had bubble tips in the nano it came from until I moved it to my reefer 350. It was the split from the parent in my nano. I have been adding a splash of stability and biospira the last week but not sure that has anything to do with it. This is a 1 year cycled tank with no fish, a couple crabs and snails and a small clump of chaeto and some sps/lps