2 blue gigs.
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mandarin417
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The nice blue gig I picked up a couple of weeks ago was thriving for 8 days and then started crashing. I have it in cipro treatment now.
My tank is a mixed reef with a bunch of bta's, zoas, GSP and some SPS. I also have a mixed size substrate.
Since I don't think Gigs are typically colocated in nature with zoas, I wonder if there are chemical pressures on the gig.
Taylor - it looks like your gig tank is bare bottom and only populated with gigs. Is that true?
I have been thinking about rebooting my system to be only a gig or haddoni tank with some clowns. If I make it a gig tank, I would do just a small layer of very large substrate around a rock structure - maybe using TLF Reborn coral skeletons. If I went haddoni, I would probably mix the Reborn with other crushed coral substrate.
For haddoni only tanks, how are folks keeping the sandbed clean?
Also, do you find that haddoni's want to lean up against a rock structure or are they fine just with their foot buried in 4" substrate?
I also have considered putting a tonga branch structure at the back or the corner of a haddoni tank and let long tenacled GSP cover the structure.
Are you guys having to retreat your carpets after the first QT treatment and after they have been in the display tank for awhile?
I have a really nice sore on my hand from handling my gig.
Thoughts?
Bob
My tank is a mixed reef with a bunch of bta's, zoas, GSP and some SPS. I also have a mixed size substrate.
Since I don't think Gigs are typically colocated in nature with zoas, I wonder if there are chemical pressures on the gig.
Taylor - it looks like your gig tank is bare bottom and only populated with gigs. Is that true?
I have been thinking about rebooting my system to be only a gig or haddoni tank with some clowns. If I make it a gig tank, I would do just a small layer of very large substrate around a rock structure - maybe using TLF Reborn coral skeletons. If I went haddoni, I would probably mix the Reborn with other crushed coral substrate.
For haddoni only tanks, how are folks keeping the sandbed clean?
Also, do you find that haddoni's want to lean up against a rock structure or are they fine just with their foot buried in 4" substrate?
I also have considered putting a tonga branch structure at the back or the corner of a haddoni tank and let long tenacled GSP cover the structure.
Are you guys having to retreat your carpets after the first QT treatment and after they have been in the display tank for awhile?
I have a really nice sore on my hand from handling my gig.
Thoughts?
Bob
taylor t
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This is a shot of both tanks, 100% LED. The main lighting is reefledlights.com XTC unit
https://reefledlights.com/shop/cri-reef-genesis-3/
supplemented with the standard home center par 38 (19 watt I think) Phillips brand 5K LED spot light. 100 or 120 watt equivalent. They seem to love the 5K spectrum of light, they do come from shallow water typically.
Been this way 1.5+ years and the gigs love it. Ugly but very effective. The gigs have been under LED for several years, but the latest LED was changed about 1.5 years ago to what it is today. Par meter reads 800-2200 par depending on which gig is measured where. Most of them are getting par in the 1000-1600 range all across the disk, the ones with more light have better color.
BE CAREFUL adding tons of light too quick. You may not be so lucky to just add light and see good results (typically if they're struggling and you don't realize it). They are individual, some may instantly love more light, others may "squint" or retract at adding too much too fast. If you add more, just be conscience there is a chance of retraction. If they retract, raise up the light to lessen the intensity for a time of acclimation. But ultimately they will be very happy with as much light as possible. What we think is too much is them thinking it's hardly enough. The amount of light they can take is crazy, but the crazier the light, the more color they display it seems. Now that my green gig (that everyone thought appeared yellow) is getting less light in the 210, it no longer appears yellow, but green with less light. Lower the light even more and it will turn into a nice forest green like this:
This one came from a biocube that it lived with stock lighting for 2 years before I got it. Nice green color, low light. I lost it, BC (before cipro) days. Added a sick one and it spread.
Hope this helps.
USE GLOVES! That's a lot of questions you have... I don't have bare bottom, wish I did. My sand has solidified to one large mass, locking my rocks and sand into one unit. Makes moving rocks almost impossible when it's established. I would use a gravel cleaner like the old freshwater days to clean the sand. Some say not to, but for me it seemed to be the best way to keep it clean.
No better tank could those guys have gone to. I'm glad you got them, they're looking very nice in your tank. Yours seem to like the T5 quite well, goes to show there's always more than one way to reef. I'm going to try to keep from any salty water touching my skin at all for a while.
taylor t
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Thanks Jimr7. Lets see some pics when you're figured out!
taylor t
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Here's today. They're still moving around a little.
This guys still hanging on. It's done this a few times I think. I know I posted pics of this same guy a few years ago doing this exact same thing. Goes bald, then recovers.
This blue got ripped. Looks to be recovering pretty good so far.
This guys still hanging on. It's done this a few times I think. I know I posted pics of this same guy a few years ago doing this exact same thing. Goes bald, then recovers.
This blue got ripped. Looks to be recovering pretty good so far.
taylor t
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This blue got shredded by my closed loop. It's been a rough ride for this guy. You're not supposed to see rock going so close to the mouth, that's missing disk cut from the pump intake. It's starting to get little nubs for tents again, close to a 5 o'clock shadow going now. I expect this guy to recover. It's got a chunky ball that's staying inflated, but is only connected by a thread, most likely will fall off soon. It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming months with this guy.
Looks like most everyone is kind of staying in the same general area. Time will tell if they all settle down for good and stay put. It's going a few weeks of no feeding.
Looks like most everyone is kind of staying in the same general area. Time will tell if they all settle down for good and stay put. It's going a few weeks of no feeding.
taylor t
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Here's this morning. Just to the left of the bright flashlight ring, there's a white spot. That's a ball of nem, size of a marble, it's hardly attached, just flopping with a floss size thread attached. I keep expecting to come home to it gone, I don't see how it can stay attached that way. Interesting it stays inflated though. Maybe it will get re-absorbed back into the anemone.
