The Life Aquatic
Community Member
Hey all! Documenting this as I haven't seen in explicitly mentioned before and maybe it can help someone in the future.
I had a very bizarre occurrence with my elegance. I've only had it for a month but the LFS had it for 2 months and it seemed totally healthy.
I woke up one morning to find it consuming a handful of its own tentacles. Basically 3-4 tentacles were inside it's mouth, and it was pulling itself deeper and deeper in, folding itself into itself. I did not take pictures as it was 6am before work, I had little time, and jumped right into action. I put it in an Iodine dip for about 10 minutes.
During this time, it "spit out" a giant brown glob. I had to help the blob detach and I pulled it apart with my hand (gross) and couldn't quite figure out what it was but it seemed to maybe be a ball of sand and something else. I had fed it the day before, and it seems like maybe the tentacle that grabbed the food (mysis) also had sand and rock on it (I've noticed some sand/rock clumps get stuck to my elegance tentacles) and when it consumed the food it consumed the rest and triggered some kind of response.
After it spit the blob out, it left a gash about the size of a nickel. It was all guts/minstrel filaments basically bursting out. Upon putting it back in my tank it shriveled up and I thought for sure it was a goner. Over the next week the wound started to close up and as of today it seems fully healed. Today is the first time it is starting to open and extend (about 70% of what it was doing before).
No real questions here, just wanted to share in case it helps someone else later but I've never seen anything like it and am candidly shocked it pulled through.
I had a very bizarre occurrence with my elegance. I've only had it for a month but the LFS had it for 2 months and it seemed totally healthy.
I woke up one morning to find it consuming a handful of its own tentacles. Basically 3-4 tentacles were inside it's mouth, and it was pulling itself deeper and deeper in, folding itself into itself. I did not take pictures as it was 6am before work, I had little time, and jumped right into action. I put it in an Iodine dip for about 10 minutes.
During this time, it "spit out" a giant brown glob. I had to help the blob detach and I pulled it apart with my hand (gross) and couldn't quite figure out what it was but it seemed to maybe be a ball of sand and something else. I had fed it the day before, and it seems like maybe the tentacle that grabbed the food (mysis) also had sand and rock on it (I've noticed some sand/rock clumps get stuck to my elegance tentacles) and when it consumed the food it consumed the rest and triggered some kind of response.
After it spit the blob out, it left a gash about the size of a nickel. It was all guts/minstrel filaments basically bursting out. Upon putting it back in my tank it shriveled up and I thought for sure it was a goner. Over the next week the wound started to close up and as of today it seems fully healed. Today is the first time it is starting to open and extend (about 70% of what it was doing before).
No real questions here, just wanted to share in case it helps someone else later but I've never seen anything like it and am candidly shocked it pulled through.
