2 blue gigs.
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taylor t
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Sounds good... while you're here, if you wouldn't mind cleaning the tanks/skimmers/top offs/feed the fish,dogs,chickens... in fact, I'll leave you a few lists! :lol:When you house got broken into this weekend and all your anemones got stolen, it not me OK.
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Hmm... I'll think about that. There's an awful lot of carpet in there. One wrong move, it's a goner.
OrionN
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taylor t
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Still don't have enough time to wipe my glass...
FTS today, before I cleaned the front for the first time this week.
I used to care...
Everything in the tank bubbles and has crud growing all over. No time anymore...
But I clean the glass and they all still look happy. I had to add a power head for flow in the back. I could see those on that side were craving flow.
Through dirty glass.
clean glass.
FTS today, before I cleaned the front for the first time this week.
I used to care...
Everything in the tank bubbles and has crud growing all over. No time anymore...
But I clean the glass and they all still look happy. I had to add a power head for flow in the back. I could see those on that side were craving flow.
Through dirty glass.
clean glass.
taylor t
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Nice updates Dave, good to see they are all doing well. Its what I call Gig heaven
Thanks Pete! Good to see you around still. Here's a little update on your last 5...
The last green you got, looked "bleached yellow",well, last month deflated 2 days in a row. No others were showing stress. That last green you got, was the only one in the group that did not go through cipro treatment. At the time, I didn't have the time or ability to treat, so it was pulled, and re-homed to another local reefer. He didn't treat it, and it's doing very well, in a sps dominated system, with a competent reefer with experience. Sorry bud, it was either rehome, or to the curb, couldn't treat at the time, and 2 days in a row deflate, in my book = garbage or treat... better to lose one as opposed to 6. The rest are doing great (my gut thinks because all were cipro treated, except that one).
Here's robbie's old green (super strong now) in the 210:
Here's your "Goliath" blue in the 210, with the little brown:
Here's the 2 purples in the 210:
Here's the original blues this thread was started with, in the 75:
Here's the last blue in the 75, only had a year now:
taylor t
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I don't know if you can tell, but the original 2 blues in the 75, they have started to turn to a teal green/blue. Not the rich blue they used to be. I'm wondering if being housed with the green, the color has jumped to the blues making them have both blue and green color. Much more noticeable in person. Not the same color they had a couple years ago. We will see in another year if the other 2 blues go to a teal also.
taylor t
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Thanks, but not really impressive. I think there's too much flow, and algae/bacteria growth for little ones to settle out, and not get choked out. I put 3 frags on rock rubble to grow out on the sand, in a couple days, it was a large glob of algae you couldn't see the rock. Killed/smothered the frags. My guess, there won't be baby gigs anytime soon for anyone, unless they design their overflows to to dump into larger area shallow low flow settle out tanks. In my tanks, there's too much crud/algae/cyno that gets sucked up with water changes, no where for them to settle safely, and flow is too high.
Thanks! Gigs seem to be available a lot more than they used to. I'm sure you'll be able to find them.
Most of mine are still in the same place they were placed originally. For me, gigs never seem to move to a "better" area on their own, unless healthy. If it's sick or weak, they typically just stay in one place, deflate, and melt/die in place. A couple have moved, but only re-positioned, not really moved. They seem to be happiest when their foot is in a hole or crevice between rocks, but still get good flow under their disk, and, on the top of their disk. Seems they like their disk supported on both sides, with their foot in a "V" of rock work, 2 or 3 rocks next to each other. If starting out, I would try making a triangle out of 3 same size rocks, and place the gig's foot in the center. If water quality,flow, and light are good, it should stay put. But, always expect them to move. The one time you don't expect them to move, they will. But typically, gigs don't move much.
ptr13
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They look really good, goliath looks even better than before, I agree Dave, 2 more days of deflation is no good to me too but am glad everyones well. Really nice hues and colors! The brown has gotten bigger too, wow, very cool. And the two nems in 210 are beautiful, the purple ones, wow.
BonsaiNut
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Your idea of a settling tank is a good one. Consider a setup that includes water flow into / through macroalgae. The one guy who successfully raised these in an open system in the Pacific had the outflow of the parent tank draining into a raceway to the ocean that was filled with wiry macroalgae like steel wool. He could never see the spawning, but would find babies "trapped" in the macroalgae.
taylor t
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Thanks. Yes, decided to keep my anemones. Got burnt for a while, but spending time getting them back looking healthy kind of kick started the flame again. Too many procrastinators with purchasing. That, and my wife telling me I still need to stay in the hobby. Changed my mind now. But, thanks!
The last pic of the blues in the corner, side tank shot, my closest blue got sucked into my mp40 a couple months ago and was bald on quite an area. You can see it's still a little short on the edges, but growing back to where you can't really tell anymore.
