Zooxanthellae Transplant For Ritteri Anemone

[Dhira]

A while back I got a completely bleached Ritteri it did fine in my DT then had to be moved to the Qt for Cipro for a whole week this is what the anemone looked like

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After a week shifted to the DT and did a Zooxanthellae Transplant what I did was I took 2 tentacles from My beaded anemone and one from my Green BTA I wrapped it up in a piece of prawn and fed it to the anemone and waited until it ate (I apologise for no pics had to do this fast)The piece of prawn needs to be defrosted in tank water Zooxanthellae are very sensitive to temp and salinity so these factors need to match a total of 3 tentacles were fed from different anemone species.
After 4 days I saw the first dirty tentacle

After a week and a half

Was able to see more dirty tentacles he got fed 2 days once with prawns chopped
This is him after a month or so
Coloured up nicely and inflated

This is him now more than a foot across

If anyone can add on points to this feel free or have any questions
And it would be nice to see what kinds of anemones u guys have so feel free to send them here

 

[Dhira]

A while back I got a completely bleached Ritteri it did fine in my DT then had to be moved to the Qt for Cipro for a whole week this is what the anemone looked like

A

After a week shifted to the DT and did a Zooxanthellae Transplant what I did was I took 2 tentacles from My beaded anemone and one from my Green BTA I wrapped it up in a piece of prawn and fed it to the anemone and waited until it ate (I apologise for no pics had to do this fast)The piece of prawn needs to be defrosted in tank water Zooxanthellae are very sensitive to temp and salinity so these factors need to match a total of 3 tentacles were fed from different anemone species.
After 4 days I saw the first dirty tentacle

After a week and a half

Was able to see more dirty tentacles he got fed 2 days once with prawns chopped
This is him after a month or so
Coloured up nicely and inflated

This is him now more than a foot across

If anyone can add on points to this feel free or have any questions
And it would be nice to see what kinds of anemones u guys have so feel free to send them here

Some of the anemones in the tank

 

[gastone]

This is fantastic. I do recall hearing about zoox transplant a long time ago, but had no idea how it was actually done. I think Collin Ford is doing some work with it down at his facilities in Florida. Or at least he suggested that some of the hardier specimens that have survived mass bleaching in and around Miami may be a result of zoox transplant from Pacific specimens.

 

[Dhira]

This is fantastic. I do recall hearing about zoox transplant a long time ago, but had no idea how it was actually done. I think Collin Ford is doing some work with it down at his facilities in Florida. Or at least he suggested that some of the hardier specimens that have survived mass bleaching in and around Miami may be a result of zoox transplant from Pacific specimens.

Orion made the post I referred and I think he was around the first ppl to post abt it

 

[winxp_man]

Still new to this whole crazyness haha. So there is hope to restore bleeched nems? Bought a tank with many that are just bleeched. Is there hope to bring back color to them?

 

[Dhira]

Still new to this whole crazyness haha. So there is hope to restore bleeched nems? Bought a tank with many that are just bleeched. Is there hope to bring back color to them?

Yes there is usually if u have one good nem and thr bleached nems are of the same species and they come in contact with each other regularly(like beside each other) The bleached nem gets Coloured I've seen that in my beaded nems
Or u cant pinch off a tentacle from a good anemone defrost a piece of shrimp in tank water and put the tentacle inside and feed the bleached nem
With bleached nems feeding is important since they can't rely on the algae to feed them

 

[Dhira]

Yes there is usually if u have one good nem and thr bleached nems are of the same species and they come in contact with each other regularly(like beside each other) The bleached nem gets Coloured I've seen that in my beaded nems
Or u can pinch off a tentacle from a good anemone defrost a piece of shrimp in tank water and put the tentacle inside and feed the bleached nem
With bleached nems feeding is important since they can't rely on the algae to feed them

*can pinch off

 

[winxp_man]

So gave the nems some time. And color is coming back! No need to do this method. But the education of this method is awesome, and super helpful if it’s needed!

 

[christa55]

A while back I got a completely bleached Ritteri it did fine in my DT then had to be moved to the Qt for Cipro for a whole week this is what the anemone looked like

A

After a week shifted to the DT and did a Zooxanthellae Transplant what I did was I took 2 tentacles from My beaded anemone and one from my Green BTA I wrapped it up in a piece of prawn and fed it to the anemone and waited until it ate (I apologise for no pics had to do this fast)The piece of prawn needs to be defrosted in tank water Zooxanthellae are very sensitive to temp and salinity so these factors need to match a total of 3 tentacles were fed from different anemone species.
After 4 days I saw the first dirty tentacle

After a week and a half

Was able to see more dirty tentacles he got fed 2 days once with prawns chopped
This is him after a month or so
Coloured up nicely and inflated

This is him now more than a foot across

If anyone can add on points to this feel free or have any questions
And it would be nice to see what kinds of anemones u guys have so feel free to send them here

Wauw

 

[Dhira]

So gave the nems some time. And color is coming back! No need to do this method. But the education of this method is awesome, and super helpful if it’s needed!

If the anemone stays like that for a long period of time might be worth doing it