Treat my anemones with antibiotics?

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I have a magnifica, and haddoni, I think. Sometimes the haddoni shrivels up and his mouth is exposed but rn he looks pretty decent he was bleached when I got him really bad. It seems he's getting some color back maybe pinkish. Had him in there for a little over a month. I think he ate a small piece of silverside last week but generally I don't get him to eat. The magnifica just sits there at the top of the tank not doing much. As far as I can tell it's healthy. Did look pretty bad a day or two ago.

I ordered Cipro and figured I could try and treat them together in the same tank, but I honestly don't know if they need it. Like maybe just an adjustment period. When they are sick how long do they last and would it be very apparent?

Side note, I'm having a green algae bloom, I assume to over feeding, I had ordered a protein skimmer and it came broken, I used a lighter to get it melted together at least the best I could and I assume that should help with that until I get the replacement. I think the over feeding was due to trying to feed the magnifica and she not eating it so the phosphates shot up my guess anyways. Also could have been why she looked bad the other day and prompted me to get antibiotics.

Can you get Clownfish to get along. I got two idk what they are called I'll add a pic and my original ocelarus forgive my spelling picked on them so I put them in an impromptu tank till I figured out what to do. If they'll never get along in Cali I got two ocelirus that gotta go cause the newer two were kinda pricey and I'd rather keep them. Or maybe set up a nano tank for them.
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the guy in the back I got two of them but they were getting attacked by the guy in the front.
 
Clowns are pretty much 1 pair only fish, to a tank.
 
For the nems.

how old is your tank?

what are your parameters? Need to know these.

What lights do you have? Schedule and intensity as well?

need the above to be able to help more, but a few observations below.

first look the mags mouth looks good, but being up that high, it wants more light. Mine sit comfortably in over 400 par. Although not all mag nems like light that intense.

Cannot see the haddonis mouth well. Can see that the foot of the haddoni is not buried though, you may need to assist it with the course was of your substrate. Haddonis will have a weird looking mouth when trying to dig. It is where they load their foot with water to push it down. That is normal. You should see the foot change shape when they do that.

As for feeding, I prefer not to feed silversides. Hard to digest for a weakened nem. Mysis shrimp and regular uncooked shrimp that is cut into small pieces and deshelled is best if they will eat. Scallops are also great and easy for them to digest.
 
For the nems.

how old is your tank?

what are your parameters? Need to know these.

What lights do you have? Schedule and intensity as well?

need the above to be able to help more, but a few observations below.

first look the mags mouth looks good, but being up that high, it wants more light. Mine sit comfortably in over 400 par. Although not all mag nems like light that intense.

Cannot see the haddonis mouth well. Can see that the foot of the haddoni is not buried though, you may need to assist it with the course was of your substrate. Haddonis will have a weird looking mouth when trying to dig. It is where they load their foot with water to push it down. That is normal. You should see the foot change shape when they do that.

As for feeding, I prefer not to feed silversides. Hard to digest for a weakened nem. Mysis shrimp and regular uncooked shrimp that is cut into small pieces and deshelled is best if they will eat. Scallops are also great and easy for them to digest.
I've tried feeding it small frozen food bits but nothing and I have some 300w LED light from Amazon. The tanks going on three months I think. I turn the light on from around 12 in the afternoon to 12 at night. I stopped testing my water as the only thing that moved was nitrates which sit at 5-20 I started doing regular water changes after a month. Never cycled honestly bought rock from my lfs that was cured live from their sump tanks. Had fish in it and haven't lost any except a coral beauty, ick got a hold and didn't let go. Other than that water has always stayed pretty
 

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