Ritteri help

[adamg77]

So I purchased a small ritteri and immediately placed him in a QT setup with cipro starting on day 2 when it began to expel the brown substance. Eventually it stopped deflating and looked good for the main tank. I waited 2 weeks since it last expelled till I put it in the DT.

Current status. Not great it is moving around like crazy and staying retracted. It has not deflated but it is not happy and I'm concerned it will detatch it's foot. It was on a rock up until it decided it was done with it. I have since added a spotlight on that rock which is the highest in the tank designed for the little guy.

29" deep tank with 6 T5HO growing acros throughout along with the spotlight.

Would you quarantine? I'll get a pic in a bit. Thanks for reading. @OrionN

 

[adamg77]

Here's a pic. There is a ton of flow in the tank

 

[D-Nak]

I would move it back into quarantine. I had one that looked like yours and it took a long time to recover. And it's still really small. You'll need to baby it--once the tentacles look normal, you'll want to feed it a lot to get it to grow quickly. But make sure you have high water quality throughout (which could mean a lot of water changes).

 

[adamg77]

@D-Nak thank you for your reply. That was my thought as well. How is yours doing? Mine bas been in the DT for about 2 months

 

[OrionN]

I agree with @D-Nak. Good luck.