Meet Mother Nem.
Mother Nem was given to me with a tear in her mouth and foot. She had been removed from a rock haphazardly resulting in the tears.
Close to 50 percent of her tentacles wouldn’t inflate, and she wouldn’t stick with her foot 100 percent. I was told when healthy she is 19 inches in diameter however she had shriveled down to about 6 inches.
I picked her up and brought her home. The top 2 photos are what she looked like when she arrived and was placed in the acclimation box in my nem tank. I wasn’t sure if she would make it. It was touch and go for quite some time. I placed her in a bucket of water with a mixture of Seachem Iodide and Simple Sugar (Glucose Syrup) {Thank you to the late Bob Fenner for this} it is essentially giving the nem a IV like how humans receive at the hospital when sick. It’s been about 2 weeks and she is almost fully healed as you can see in the two bottom pictures. I wasn’t sure how that mixture would go but after some nursing back to health and some iodide and simple sugar she is right as rain and eating like a champ. She was placed on her rock last week in the tank and is doing great.
here she is on her rock and my maroon KeKe is obsessed with her.
Mother Nem was given to me with a tear in her mouth and foot. She had been removed from a rock haphazardly resulting in the tears.
Close to 50 percent of her tentacles wouldn’t inflate, and she wouldn’t stick with her foot 100 percent. I was told when healthy she is 19 inches in diameter however she had shriveled down to about 6 inches.
I picked her up and brought her home. The top 2 photos are what she looked like when she arrived and was placed in the acclimation box in my nem tank. I wasn’t sure if she would make it. It was touch and go for quite some time. I placed her in a bucket of water with a mixture of Seachem Iodide and Simple Sugar (Glucose Syrup) {Thank you to the late Bob Fenner for this} it is essentially giving the nem a IV like how humans receive at the hospital when sick. It’s been about 2 weeks and she is almost fully healed as you can see in the two bottom pictures. I wasn’t sure how that mixture would go but after some nursing back to health and some iodide and simple sugar she is right as rain and eating like a champ. She was placed on her rock last week in the tank and is doing great.
here she is on her rock and my maroon KeKe is obsessed with her.