Time to cipro bta??

[Grimm_Medic]

As the title states do you think it is time to treat this nem?
Here is little background on it. It has been in the tank since January, and as you can see in the picture it was happy and healthy. Fast forward to last month when it went for a walk and somehow managed to get its foot wrapped up in the guard around my mp10. It has looked like this since. It often deflates and expels brown stringy mucous, the mouth is usually closed tight and foot is strongly attached, it shows a slow feeding response.

Current params:
Sg-1.025
Temp-78
Alk-9.9
Ca- 410
Mg- 1400

Thoughts?

 

[Tahoe61]

All those other anemones are doing well? It does eat though right?

 

[Grimm_Medic]

Yes the others are doing well, got the one in question and its twin at the same time and the smaller one months earlier. It does eat, but it is very slow to respond to food and touch. I have been giving it small pieces of mysis for the past month, anything larger it spits out.

 

[Tahoe61]

Well it was injured in Jan so you given ample time to recover. The anemone looks to be on a slow failure track, so my vote is to give the Cipro treatment a go. I do not think the treatment is going to hurt it.

 

[Grimm_Medic]

That was my thought as well, I'm hoping I can save it. I have a at on standby and cipro coming in tomorrow to begin treatment.

 

[Amoo]

This one is a tough call. As you know BTAs move around like crazy. My first instinct would say if it's not moving and it's not gaping I would probably not treat it. That said with the constant deflating and expelling there possibly is something going on.

How often have you been feeding it since you mentioned feeding response. With what, what size and how often?

 

[Grimm_Medic]

Lately I have been feeding it some bits of mysis via rods food once a week. I have tried small bits of regular gulf shrimp and it ends up spitting them out every time, size ranging from 1/2 shrimp to maybe the size of a dime the last time I tried. I have not attempted other foods.

 

[Grimm_Medic]

Here is what it looks like right now

 

[Amoo]

yeah just the way it is holding it's body and not extending in both pictures would lend me to sway more towards your original thought of go ahead with cipro.

Also not something I normally EVER recommend, but I would continue and see if you can get it to eat small pieces of rods/mysis maybe twice a week, even during treatment.

 

[Grimm_Medic]

That's the plan then! Would placing it in qt with the rock its attached to be ok seeing as I don't want to stress it any further by trying to get it off?

 

[Amoo]

That's the plan then! Would placing it in qt with the rock its attached to be ok seeing as I don't want to stress it any further by trying to get it off?

Unfortunately not, you don't want something in there that has the opportunity to soak up the meds or bring over anything else which could potentially cause issues. Ceramic Coffee Mugs work well for me.

 

[Grimm_Medic]

Well after a lengthy battle, she finally gave up her rock. Day one of treatment is now underway, really hoping it will return to its former glory.

 

[Amoo]

Ok, so just o give you an idea what you're going to be looking for with this one.

Obviously you're going to have the normal indicators like mouth closed...etc.

For this specific treatment you're really going to want to see that nem doing something other than just laying on it's side. It doesn't need to be stretching every last inch it can, but you at least want to see it supporting it's own weight with the base.