2 blue gigs.
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taylor t
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So for a few weeks now, I've been trying to feed them a couple times a week, frozen raw shrimp from the store, and sometimes frozen mysis from the LFS. I've noticed a growth and color explosion on the green one, and the 2 blues seem to be going down in size, keeping their color, and have started leaving their mouths open/loose a bit more. I'm telling ya, I don't think they like to eat, or I haven't found WHAT they like to eat yet. Last night was the second night of full collapse on both blues. Out of no where, well, kind of. Only one thing I can think... My tank temp shot up to 90 degrees 3 times in the last month with my heater. I now have a controller on it, starting last night... I"m starting to think they may go backwards in progress... while green has grown a lot. Blues have slowed in feeding responses, while green gig is almost instant close with food. I don't get it. Had all for several months now, and all the sudden with eating, things have changed negative for 2, and positive for one. Green gig hasn't looked better. It's doing great. Haddoni still the same, and has been on same feeding schedule as everyone else. Haddoni still eats lightning fast too. All corals, green slimer, zoo's, candy canes, xenia, all doing very well, tests all where they need to be... I'm going to be at a loss soon, I fear... Just a waiting game, I guess. Here's today.
Green gig has really added mass, and color, but can't really tell from the photo. Blue gigs only have blue tips with brown algae everywhere else, while this green gig has bright green tips, and where the blues are brown, the green one looks like it's taking on all green, no brown, just a darker green. Like a 2 toned green.
Whole tank today.
I'm hoping they are just showing me displeasure with the temperature as of late, and they stop deflating at night... I've got a controller set to 82-83 now, where they've been for a couple months, until my wonderful heater decided to change it up.
Green gig has really added mass, and color, but can't really tell from the photo. Blue gigs only have blue tips with brown algae everywhere else, while this green gig has bright green tips, and where the blues are brown, the green one looks like it's taking on all green, no brown, just a darker green. Like a 2 toned green.
Whole tank today.
I'm hoping they are just showing me displeasure with the temperature as of late, and they stop deflating at night... I've got a controller set to 82-83 now, where they've been for a couple months, until my wonderful heater decided to change it up.
taylor t
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Here's the guy that came in cut. He's completely healed, but just doesn't look like it's doing as well as it was a couple months ago. I just moved it yesterday a few inches out of the flow, it was getting pounded.
This guy was a really fast eater. Now it's really slow, and the tents have gotten really really short in a couple spots. Not sure what's going on.
Here's my green gig. Gotten much "shaggier" (as Tom calls it
), and has taken on more color. VERY slow to recover in the color department, but it's all coming back green, not brown. Yes, I'm sure the brown zoo is growing inside it, but to the eye, it looks like two shades of green.
Maybe someone sees something I'm doing wrong? Or, something I'm not doing right? Or not doing at all? To most of you, the pics of the blues probably look ok, but I've watched them for months, and see them everyday, and the 2 blues are struggling. The green meanwhile has exploded in attitude, size, and vigor. Not sure what to make of it.
This guy was a really fast eater. Now it's really slow, and the tents have gotten really really short in a couple spots. Not sure what's going on.
Here's my green gig. Gotten much "shaggier" (as Tom calls it
), and has taken on more color. VERY slow to recover in the color department, but it's all coming back green, not brown. Yes, I'm sure the brown zoo is growing inside it, but to the eye, it looks like two shades of green. 
Maybe someone sees something I'm doing wrong? Or, something I'm not doing right? Or not doing at all? To most of you, the pics of the blues probably look ok, but I've watched them for months, and see them everyday, and the 2 blues are struggling. The green meanwhile has exploded in attitude, size, and vigor. Not sure what to make of it.
taylor t
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Thanks for opinions/help/suggestions everyone.
I added T5 back on today. Time will tell if that was it.
Thanks for asking. Well, I think both blues are really struggling. The green seems really healthy. I'm on the fence with taking the two blues out and doing another cipro treatment. It's been a few days now since I've seen any deflates. They have eaten, and stay inflated, but still look "off" to me, even though the pics say otherwise. Also thinking about taking the haddoni out, the flow is a bit much for it, it's not too happy with the higher flow, but the gigs seem to like it. I've done daily 10 gallon water changes, but after 4 days, they looked mad, so I skipped a couple days, and they seemed to like the rest. Hard to say, I go by sight.
Yesterday before the water change:
Today after the water change I did last night (after picture above):
I added T5 lights to the LED's today, the cords through the front door are only a temp trial.
Here's 2 of them. It doesn't look like it, but blue is struggling.
Here's the other blue. This one is really struggling too.
Mouths closed, sometimes, open sometimes, but not inside out (not the real bad way, just showing it's "teeth"). Mouth is always closed tight after eating. Haven't shrank in a few days now. The last pic, it's loosing tents, but keeping the disk size. Tents still vibrate and are still sticky with food. I try to feed a tiny piece every day now, size of pencil eraser, slightly bigger. Human grade frozen shrimp. I'm kind of stumped as to what to do to stop the regression of the blues. I think medicating them would be a big upset, to both them and me. It would be a big set back. I don't like how they have progressed as of late. I'm taking it one day at a time.
Green on the other hand, appears as if it is doing very very well. Eats with lightning speed. Fast reset. Goes from 100% size down to 80-90% size at night. Blues go from 100% size down to a floppy 50% size at night. They didn't do this before. Going on a couple weeks now, I think.
Do you notice for the next day or two your anemone is upset from the change, or does it like it? Seems when I do larger ones, they get mad for a day or few.
I did think about that, but the one that was under only LED and T5 is the one struggling the most, and it was doing very well a couple months ago. It was never really under MH.
I added T5 back on today. Time will tell if that was it.
Thanks for asking. Well, I think both blues are really struggling. The green seems really healthy. I'm on the fence with taking the two blues out and doing another cipro treatment. It's been a few days now since I've seen any deflates. They have eaten, and stay inflated, but still look "off" to me, even though the pics say otherwise. Also thinking about taking the haddoni out, the flow is a bit much for it, it's not too happy with the higher flow, but the gigs seem to like it. I've done daily 10 gallon water changes, but after 4 days, they looked mad, so I skipped a couple days, and they seemed to like the rest. Hard to say, I go by sight.
Yesterday before the water change:
Today after the water change I did last night (after picture above):
I added T5 lights to the LED's today, the cords through the front door are only a temp trial.
Here's 2 of them. It doesn't look like it, but blue is struggling.
Here's the other blue. This one is really struggling too.
Mouths closed, sometimes, open sometimes, but not inside out (not the real bad way, just showing it's "teeth"). Mouth is always closed tight after eating. Haven't shrank in a few days now. The last pic, it's loosing tents, but keeping the disk size. Tents still vibrate and are still sticky with food. I try to feed a tiny piece every day now, size of pencil eraser, slightly bigger. Human grade frozen shrimp. I'm kind of stumped as to what to do to stop the regression of the blues. I think medicating them would be a big upset, to both them and me. It would be a big set back. I don't like how they have progressed as of late. I'm taking it one day at a time.
Green on the other hand, appears as if it is doing very very well. Eats with lightning speed. Fast reset. Goes from 100% size down to 80-90% size at night. Blues go from 100% size down to a floppy 50% size at night. They didn't do this before. Going on a couple weeks now, I think.
Jamie1210
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A thought occurred to me as I was going through your thread. After reading about several members' experience with chemical warfare, do you think it's possible that the green gig is actually fighting with the blues? As the green got stronger, it was able to "fight" the blue gig's better, causing them to decrease in health. It's an interesting pattern to me--that the blues were doing great, even when a weakened green was introduced; however, when the green started doing well, the blue ones declined.
Not sure what to advise, other than separating the blues from the green and seeing what happens...just something to think about maybe?
Not sure what to advise, other than separating the blues from the green and seeing what happens...just something to think about maybe?
taylor t
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Thank you for your thoughts. It is interesting that about the same time the green got strong, the two blues declined, but I'm not sure that's it, yet. I'm hoping they can live together, but if I need to make a choice, then I will. I can't set up any more systems, so I'm hoping I can keep them together.
Thanks everyone for your feedback. Here are a couple shots from today. Not impoving, but not quickly declining either. I don't like how they have been acting. I see the decline that's been going on for a while now. These guys should be much larger and much more stable than they are, for how long I have had them. I'm very unhappy with their progress, but no deflates as of lately, so maybe a little improvement, but no where near enough.
Here's the left one. Still looks off to me. I don't like how it's mouth is. Still has short tent areas. Pic looks better than I feel it's doing.
Now, this is an interesting one. I caught this when the lights went on this morning. The one that was cut, is growing it's other "tooth" back. It's just a start of a white tooth, not fully developed like the one original, but it definately is growing another one back. It wasn't there a couple months ago. I'm sure of it.
and another one. The "tooth" isn't fully developed. It is just a white spec, but I'm sure of what it is.
xrayjeeper83
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thats cool that its growing the tooth back
