2 blue gigs.
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Themoths_reef
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No Still waiting on one to get in to a LFS near me. They have two feelers out.
Why?? You have a lead for me?
taylor t
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Gosh, I've made some changes to the tank since I started this thread. Merry Christmas everyone! 
FTS today. Full flow.
Individual shots with no flow, left to right:
original blue from thread start, one that when purchased was not cut:
(I only tagged them cut or not for progress info only, I DID NOT CUT THEM. I DON'T ADVISE TRYING TO CUT THEM, ODDS ARE AGAINST SUCCESS.)
original blue from therad start, one that was cut when purchased:
Little (left) purple added at the beginning of this year:
lower blue added beginning of this year:
Right purple added beginning of this year:
Green (yellow) was added shortly after the original blues. Almost 2 years now.
Both purples and one blue had evidence of being cut either prior to collection, or through the collection chain. All 3 have mouths centered now, no sign of a cut is present that I can tell, but limited looking under skirt on my part. All 3 react normal and eat when (rarely) fed. They seem to love cheap daylight LED lamps (using clip on sockets) from the home center, 5500K. With the added light, the tents seem to have really compacted tightly together on the disk. My goal during waterchanges (5-20 gallons at a time, depending), is to remove any and all possible algae I can. Seems to be working well.
FTS today. Full flow.
Individual shots with no flow, left to right:
original blue from thread start, one that when purchased was not cut:
(I only tagged them cut or not for progress info only, I DID NOT CUT THEM. I DON'T ADVISE TRYING TO CUT THEM, ODDS ARE AGAINST SUCCESS.)
original blue from therad start, one that was cut when purchased:
Little (left) purple added at the beginning of this year:
lower blue added beginning of this year:
Right purple added beginning of this year:
Green (yellow) was added shortly after the original blues. Almost 2 years now.
Both purples and one blue had evidence of being cut either prior to collection, or through the collection chain. All 3 have mouths centered now, no sign of a cut is present that I can tell, but limited looking under skirt on my part. All 3 react normal and eat when (rarely) fed. They seem to love cheap daylight LED lamps (using clip on sockets) from the home center, 5500K. With the added light, the tents seem to have really compacted tightly together on the disk. My goal during waterchanges (5-20 gallons at a time, depending), is to remove any and all possible algae I can. Seems to be working well.
geckoejon
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Thanks Minh. It took a lot of learning, work, and mistakes to get here.
My next goal is to figure out why these won't stick. I think it's because flow is too much for them to settle out.
..and it's not a tentacle...
do you think that is an offspring from one of the gigs?
what do you mean by some of your gigs showing signs of being "cut"? do you mean damage in collection or cut in half in an attempt to reproduce them?
beautiful gigs! i'm looking for a green and purple myself...
taylor t
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Yes, I've found purple and green little ones, they are tiny. My camera won't focus that small. That was the first one I found attached to poop. I tried to get them to plant themselves but they won't grab. I tried moving them to the sump of my other tank, but they wont' grab there either. I've also found baby clear ones, but those are aptasia. They look different. When low flow, baby aptasia grab really fast and easy. I'm trying to think of a way to change my set-up, I'd like to take the overflows to a longer tank, bare bottom, with a light just to shine on the bottom on all the "detrious", then have that tank overflow into the real sump. Maybe they would settle out in a longer low flow tank? Still thinking how I can do this, I'm space challenged. I'm 100% sure I have male and female, I've come down in the morning to find my skimmer overflowing, the night after a cleaning. Who is who, I don't know. I've found floating tiny ones. NO doubt in my mind. They won't attach, only guessing they need still water for a time.
What I mean by cut, some PERSON, I believe, cut them with a knife. Seems like most of the ones people buy that show signs that they were cut, don't live, from what I've read. Could be the reefer, could be the shipping, could be a fluke, who knows why. So far, all the ones I've got that showed evidence of a cut, have lived, and seem quite strong. Another reefer on here accidentally cut his blue gig in half in a transfer when a rock fell on it. Now he has two, healthy, to this day. I think it's been a couple years now. While I've seen enough evidence to show a cut gig can survive, I'm not willing to try it.
Thanks! Good luck in your search.
taylor t
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I copied a PM I answered, I thought I wrote all this before, but here is again, just what my system is made up of:
Thanks! It's a self-drilled 75 glass tank, 3 overflows (one on opposite end incase nem walks and clogs on one end, water keeps moving). (2) T5 ATI special 54 watt lamps in rear, 2" off watter. Reefledlights.com LED DIY, made up with XRE, XPE, XPG, maybe 5 years old?. I think there's 68 LED diodes on each side, (2)18" heatsinks, one may be 22" long, don't remember. Each gig gets a home depot 5500K daylight LED Phillyps spot light (clamp on rim of front tank) I think 12 hours of light a day, 8 hours of full/blasting light. There is a TON of light on this tank. (2) MP40 set at reef crest on high, no change at night. Very turbulent, sand moves sometimes. Special grade reef sand, I've changed sections out at a time. depth changes between 1" in the middle, to 3-4" on ends/behind rocks. Algae gets sucked out with water changes, as much as I can. Just regular reef crystal salt. 5-20 gallons at a time, sometimes a couple times a week, sometimes life is busy and they don't get a change for a few weeks. There's about 8 different types of algae, bubble, hair, (all the pests), grape, some red type that grows in clumps, calerpa, I don't know the rest. 30 gallon long AGA tank for a sump, so basic. Water overflows to sump tank, skimmer, return pump. NO light in sump, no filter sock, just collecting detrious that gets sucked out every few months, and sponges on the walls. 2 part dosing seachem fusion or b-ionic, with timers and dosing pumps. Top off RO water ATO. I live on a well, only use RO, not DI. Front left corner of tank leaks, has for years. Real nice, huh? salinity varies from 1.026-1.028 if I don't pay attention sometimes it creeps a little high. Temp varies, as low as 80, as high as 86 I've seen. 82 as I type. From what I've seen, temp doesn't seem to bother them, gigs in 210 are at 79 and look great. They do look extra puffy when it gets on the warmer side. Rarely feed rod's food, poor clowns. The clowns eat stuff off the walls I've seen, they're fine. I feed maybe a couple times a week lately. I try feeding every day, but sometimes/most times doesn't work out. Lugols iodine is added, maybe a drop or two a couple times a week, if I remember. Only parameter I try to keep on top of is KH, the most fluctuating. I manually add mag, but don't know what level it is, only when manually dump the KH part, it looks different when it's low, like a different snow storm. I aim for KH9-10 cal 400-440 mag I don't accurately know right now, but 1350-1400 I'm guessing. I use both kent mag (the cloudy stuff) and B-ionic mag.
I DON'T KNOW IT ALL. I'm still learning. This is what I've been doing and seems to be working well. There's things others may do differently and be successful.
Thanks! It's a self-drilled 75 glass tank, 3 overflows (one on opposite end incase nem walks and clogs on one end, water keeps moving). (2) T5 ATI special 54 watt lamps in rear, 2" off watter. Reefledlights.com LED DIY, made up with XRE, XPE, XPG, maybe 5 years old?. I think there's 68 LED diodes on each side, (2)18" heatsinks, one may be 22" long, don't remember. Each gig gets a home depot 5500K daylight LED Phillyps spot light (clamp on rim of front tank) I think 12 hours of light a day, 8 hours of full/blasting light. There is a TON of light on this tank. (2) MP40 set at reef crest on high, no change at night. Very turbulent, sand moves sometimes. Special grade reef sand, I've changed sections out at a time. depth changes between 1" in the middle, to 3-4" on ends/behind rocks. Algae gets sucked out with water changes, as much as I can. Just regular reef crystal salt. 5-20 gallons at a time, sometimes a couple times a week, sometimes life is busy and they don't get a change for a few weeks. There's about 8 different types of algae, bubble, hair, (all the pests), grape, some red type that grows in clumps, calerpa, I don't know the rest. 30 gallon long AGA tank for a sump, so basic. Water overflows to sump tank, skimmer, return pump. NO light in sump, no filter sock, just collecting detrious that gets sucked out every few months, and sponges on the walls. 2 part dosing seachem fusion or b-ionic, with timers and dosing pumps. Top off RO water ATO. I live on a well, only use RO, not DI. Front left corner of tank leaks, has for years. Real nice, huh? salinity varies from 1.026-1.028 if I don't pay attention sometimes it creeps a little high. Temp varies, as low as 80, as high as 86 I've seen. 82 as I type. From what I've seen, temp doesn't seem to bother them, gigs in 210 are at 79 and look great. They do look extra puffy when it gets on the warmer side. Rarely feed rod's food, poor clowns. The clowns eat stuff off the walls I've seen, they're fine. I feed maybe a couple times a week lately. I try feeding every day, but sometimes/most times doesn't work out. Lugols iodine is added, maybe a drop or two a couple times a week, if I remember. Only parameter I try to keep on top of is KH, the most fluctuating. I manually add mag, but don't know what level it is, only when manually dump the KH part, it looks different when it's low, like a different snow storm. I aim for KH9-10 cal 400-440 mag I don't accurately know right now, but 1350-1400 I'm guessing. I use both kent mag (the cloudy stuff) and B-ionic mag.
I DON'T KNOW IT ALL. I'm still learning. This is what I've been doing and seems to be working well. There's things others may do differently and be successful.
taylor t
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Yes, several times. I'm sure of what I saw. I don't see many at a time, only a few at a time, on a few separate occasions. They are small, and won't attach. I turn my pumps off, and suck them up in the 1/4" feeding tube I use for food, and try to plop them down in a low flow area. They won't grab, they just float away. That's what has me thinking they need a low flow area to settle, when I turn the pumps back on, they float away. My whole tank is very high flow. I haven't looked often, it takes time to look for them in all the loose stuff floating in the tank. It only figures, the floating baby pest aptasia anemone's grab on right away. I think it's only a matter of time.
