Long story short I made a 3.5hr drive north of me to hang out withy brother and attend a bachelor party... Every time I travel I look up local aquarium stores and there just happened to be one about 10min away from where I was staying. While walking around I was surprised at some of their selection, seeing fish I haven't seen in a while locally (during pandemic). Kept inspecting every tank and saw a nice small pistol shrimp for an amazing price and told them I'm taking it home the second someone walked my way.
Continued to walk around and saw a familiar friend in their back tank.... A nice looking green carpet!! It immediately grabs my attention and first thing I noticed is that its mouth is pretty wide open, but had decent color under blue lights. I'm starting to look at it closer and notice that it's missing a few tentacles toward the center of the nem and the others were pretty short. I wasn't sure on how well it would handle the drive home so I was hesitant and decided to walk away and look around a bit more. After looking around at the rest of their selection I go back to check out the anemone and it's deflated, I take a quick look at the pics and to my surprise it was pretty low, at least compared to what I'm used to, and also see it's on hold. I ask an employee if it's on hold for a customer or a different reason, they told me it's on hold because of the condition it's in and that they have had it for 2 weeks. I explain to them that I know how to treat them and am willing to take the risk and explain that I have done it before with good results. They seem to not want to sell so I tell them it's not a problem and will be back before they close to pick up the pistol shrimp. I return a few hours later to pick up the shrimp and attempt again at the anemone. They seemed hesitant but let me take it and toy surprise gave me 25% off an already great price bringing my total for the anemone to around $55!!!
I get home and immediately set up the QT tank and pull out the cipro while it floats in my DT.
Day 1
Day 3
Today
Seems to be responding to the cipro well and turned out to be a painless treatment so far. Still expelling black pellets but I have not seen it deflate since day 2. Keeping my fingers crossed the last few days go just as well.
I did 250mg in 10g of water every night as well as a 100% WC the first 3 days and 50% WC from then on.
***Powerhead on bottom next to the anemone has never been turned on with the anemone in the tank. The powerhead that's running is near the top and separated via eggcrate***
Thank you to all those who have made previous threads to gain the knowledge I now have on treatment and have made this I believe my 6th(I think) hopefully successful treated carpet.
Continued to walk around and saw a familiar friend in their back tank.... A nice looking green carpet!! It immediately grabs my attention and first thing I noticed is that its mouth is pretty wide open, but had decent color under blue lights. I'm starting to look at it closer and notice that it's missing a few tentacles toward the center of the nem and the others were pretty short. I wasn't sure on how well it would handle the drive home so I was hesitant and decided to walk away and look around a bit more. After looking around at the rest of their selection I go back to check out the anemone and it's deflated, I take a quick look at the pics and to my surprise it was pretty low, at least compared to what I'm used to, and also see it's on hold. I ask an employee if it's on hold for a customer or a different reason, they told me it's on hold because of the condition it's in and that they have had it for 2 weeks. I explain to them that I know how to treat them and am willing to take the risk and explain that I have done it before with good results. They seem to not want to sell so I tell them it's not a problem and will be back before they close to pick up the pistol shrimp. I return a few hours later to pick up the shrimp and attempt again at the anemone. They seemed hesitant but let me take it and toy surprise gave me 25% off an already great price bringing my total for the anemone to around $55!!!
I get home and immediately set up the QT tank and pull out the cipro while it floats in my DT.
Day 1
Day 3
Today
Seems to be responding to the cipro well and turned out to be a painless treatment so far. Still expelling black pellets but I have not seen it deflate since day 2. Keeping my fingers crossed the last few days go just as well.
I did 250mg in 10g of water every night as well as a 100% WC the first 3 days and 50% WC from then on.
***Powerhead on bottom next to the anemone has never been turned on with the anemone in the tank. The powerhead that's running is near the top and separated via eggcrate***
Thank you to all those who have made previous threads to gain the knowledge I now have on treatment and have made this I believe my 6th(I think) hopefully successful treated carpet.