I think all of us Carpet anemone fans are familiar with the slow decline and death of carpet anemones, especially of new arrivals. I always attribute this to their inability to acclimate, and stress from collection and shipping, which I’m sure it can be a part of it. But I think the actual culprit, as many of us know now, is a bacterial infection. Myself and several others on the forum (thanks to those who wrote the stickies here!) have had really good experience with relatively high doses of ciprofloxacin treating H.Magnifica anemones. However, in my experience, the same dosages cause high stress in S. Haddoni Carpet anemones. I prophylactically treated apparently new S. Haddoni anemones in the past of the same dosage that I treated H.Magnifica anemones, and it triggered a stress response and killed the S. Haddoni whereas thr H. Magnificas improved and remain healthy. Multiple times I’ve seen similar negative reactions to dosages that cure H. Magnifica anemones. So, I’ve been hesitant to treat S. Haddoni anemones with cipro.
A months ago I purchased a seemingly healthy new Haddoni from a LFS, but over the course of a month, not knowing why, it deteriorated and eventually died. Then after a month or so, my other 3 Haddoni carpets started to exhibit the same symptoms (inflating/deflating, restlessness, mouth opening and showing signs of stress, foot not attaching fully) and I realized it has to be a pathogen.
Because I was worried about trying to dislodge three large carpet anemones and move them to a quarantine team, I decided to treat the display tank. I started this regiment https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/e...ic-treatments-for-brown-jelly-disease.782438/ 10 hours ago and already seeing improvements thankfully. I’ll treat at .125mg/L 2x/day, since I’ve treated anemones with much high dosages before with success, but this is the first time treating a display. So far no negative reaction from the LPS, softies, and clam tankmates. As a sidenote, the anemones started showing symptoms after I turned off the UV sterilizer that I was using along with hydrogen peroxide (humblefish regiment) to treat ich in the system (which was successful).
I’ll try to remember to keep this thread updated with progress.
takeaway: I think cipro is a good idea for all carpets before intro to the display, but as much lower dosages than are typically used for H. Magnifica.
A months ago I purchased a seemingly healthy new Haddoni from a LFS, but over the course of a month, not knowing why, it deteriorated and eventually died. Then after a month or so, my other 3 Haddoni carpets started to exhibit the same symptoms (inflating/deflating, restlessness, mouth opening and showing signs of stress, foot not attaching fully) and I realized it has to be a pathogen.
Because I was worried about trying to dislodge three large carpet anemones and move them to a quarantine team, I decided to treat the display tank. I started this regiment https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/e...ic-treatments-for-brown-jelly-disease.782438/ 10 hours ago and already seeing improvements thankfully. I’ll treat at .125mg/L 2x/day, since I’ve treated anemones with much high dosages before with success, but this is the first time treating a display. So far no negative reaction from the LPS, softies, and clam tankmates. As a sidenote, the anemones started showing symptoms after I turned off the UV sterilizer that I was using along with hydrogen peroxide (humblefish regiment) to treat ich in the system (which was successful).
I’ll try to remember to keep this thread updated with progress.
takeaway: I think cipro is a good idea for all carpets before intro to the display, but as much lower dosages than are typically used for H. Magnifica.