Anthony Scholfield
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I thought i would share a success story. Ive had my share of fails and upsets so its nice when there is a success. This involves a CSB BTA and a lesson learned.....maybe?! 
This is a pic of the CSB just after i got it. I put it in the tank with a few other BTAs. I had read all about the possibility of this strain not doing well with other strains. I wasn’t convinced by what i read, it just didn’t make sense. Especially when several didn’t have a problem. It just didn’t seem cut and dry and being a bit of a risk taker i went forward.
After about a month or so i noticed the color looked really dull and the tentacle length had shrunk some. It began hiding more and more and looking worse. I decided i had to pull it if I didn’t want to loose it. I set up a hospital tank and treated it with cipro. This is what it looked like. Pretty bad!
So after treatment it looked a little better so i was hopeful. I had to keep it in this small tank because I didn’t currently have a system without a nem in it. During that time there was a lot of ups and downs and i thought for sure at one point it was a goner...dont have a pic of that, it was so sad. Through some miracle it began to heal. I would feed it reef roids paste as it was so tiny and hardly had any tentacles. The tentacles began to grow and a hint of color showed. I could hardly believe it. My frag tank no longer had a nem in it and i thought it was a good time to get this guy some where more stable. Here it is a couple months after treatment.
This is how it looks now. I took this yesterday. It is so pretty!
So my experience was that certain strains do not do well with other strains. Unfortunately i lost the supernova this way. It is truly interesting and unexplainable really. I wonder if treating all the BTAs with cipro together then adding them would avoid this? I dunno, i just know i am a little more careful with certain strains and keeping them together. Dive in at your own risk! Haha
This is a pic of the CSB just after i got it. I put it in the tank with a few other BTAs. I had read all about the possibility of this strain not doing well with other strains. I wasn’t convinced by what i read, it just didn’t make sense. Especially when several didn’t have a problem. It just didn’t seem cut and dry and being a bit of a risk taker i went forward.
After about a month or so i noticed the color looked really dull and the tentacle length had shrunk some. It began hiding more and more and looking worse. I decided i had to pull it if I didn’t want to loose it. I set up a hospital tank and treated it with cipro. This is what it looked like. Pretty bad!
So after treatment it looked a little better so i was hopeful. I had to keep it in this small tank because I didn’t currently have a system without a nem in it. During that time there was a lot of ups and downs and i thought for sure at one point it was a goner...dont have a pic of that, it was so sad. Through some miracle it began to heal. I would feed it reef roids paste as it was so tiny and hardly had any tentacles. The tentacles began to grow and a hint of color showed. I could hardly believe it. My frag tank no longer had a nem in it and i thought it was a good time to get this guy some where more stable. Here it is a couple months after treatment.
This is how it looks now. I took this yesterday. It is so pretty!
So my experience was that certain strains do not do well with other strains. Unfortunately i lost the supernova this way. It is truly interesting and unexplainable really. I wonder if treating all the BTAs with cipro together then adding them would avoid this? I dunno, i just know i am a little more careful with certain strains and keeping them together. Dive in at your own risk! Haha
