OrionN
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This Green Gig is not doing well. How long have you have him?
2 blue gigs.
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This Green Gig is not doing well. How long have you have him?
taylor t
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OrionN, your green gig is a real beauty! Looks good, color not so important when they are healthy, IMO. So apparently you've seen enough of an improvement with those lights on your anemones to make it part of your set up!
Good observation. It's doing poor, has been for a little while now. It's been slowly crawling towards the back of the tank. The footing isn't good with this guy, it really needs a new location on a different rock. I've been planning on relocating it for a couple weeks now, just neglecting it. I moved it just now, just flipped the rock. It needs/needed much more flow, and more light, than it was getting. All the 210 gigs need more flow than they're getting to look/do better.
This is Reef1589 Robbie's old green, he sold to Pete, I got from Pete a couple years ago (don't remember exactly, but I'm sure you could figure out by going through the thread) maybe 3-4 years in captivity, or longer? Not sure.
Good observation. It's doing poor, has been for a little while now. It's been slowly crawling towards the back of the tank. The footing isn't good with this guy, it really needs a new location on a different rock. I've been planning on relocating it for a couple weeks now, just neglecting it. I moved it just now, just flipped the rock. It needs/needed much more flow, and more light, than it was getting. All the 210 gigs need more flow than they're getting to look/do better.
taylor t
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The right side was the side that slumped into the lower end of the rocks, getting no flow or light for the last few weeks. Dumb brainless blob of water doesn't know what's good for it.
210 blue
210 purples
I feel like both tanks are becoming ticking time bombs. Too much anemone.
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taylor t
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210 both rear purple and blue need more flow too, tents are getting shorter by the mouths where they are pulled into the rocks. Outside of disk gets ok flow, still too low though. Higher flow would make them happier, but hard to balance, mertens doesn't seem to like the same high flow, conflict of occupants. Powerheads grow bubble algae frequently and clog, flow drops fast. Maybe more food is the answer, but then I have to deal with even more bubble algae, cleaning skimmer more often, and more waterchanges, so I will take what I have for the time. Last week was a busy week, only 1 feeding. I know they would look better with more food at this point that's why I've been trying to pound them with light to avoid feeding them food as much.
When Pete talked about his trip to the Philippines, the flow he described was linear strong flow one direction for hours from the tide coming in, stronger that what we are giving them in our tanks, loaded with little bugs and mysis. Logic tells me, if it flows one direction for hours, there has to be a still point, then hours of strong flow the other way. I still have a few things to work out with my lights before I start trying to re-think my flow better and get the ugly powerheads off the front glass. Time and motivation is a problem.
When Pete talked about his trip to the Philippines, the flow he described was linear strong flow one direction for hours from the tide coming in, stronger that what we are giving them in our tanks, loaded with little bugs and mysis. Logic tells me, if it flows one direction for hours, there has to be a still point, then hours of strong flow the other way. I still have a few things to work out with my lights before I start trying to re-think my flow better and get the ugly powerheads off the front glass. Time and motivation is a problem.
The blues and purples I always see have purple tips and then the skin tone / tan color on the rest of the tentacles, do they usually turn out that way? Mine right now is purple oral plate, purple tentacles, and purple tips. Was wondering if it was gonna end up looking more like these in this post.
D-Nak
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IME healthy gigs always have brown and it is indicative of a healthy population of zoox that live within the nem. This is more pronounced in blue and purple gigs because of the brown coloration against the contrasting color. Green gigs appear to be more of a uniform color, but I think it's because the green simply blends in better with the brown. It could also be a different species of zoox within green gigs that has more of a green than brown tinge.
Gigs such as yours, with a more uniform color, are typically not 100% healthy. They are in the process of adjusting their level of zoox. Many people (myself included) actually like this coloration better because they appear to be more colorful, or appear to have more accent color -- be it blue or purple -- than the brown base color. But the reality is that a healthy gig will have a brown base color especially when given a lot of the light, and this is what you're actually aiming for.
OrionN
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Certain color seem to have deeper color, in a sense that the color all the way from the tip to the base of the tentacles, other colors the color just at the tip.
IME Green coloration look better because the color is deeper while blue and purple, the color only at the tip.
Your anemone color seem to be in bluer light than Taylor or myself. Our light is brighter but more in the 5000K range rather than 10,000K or 12,000K or even 20,000K
I hope you see what I am talking about here:
maxxII
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Taylor,
How many pairs of clowns do you have in the 75?
I'm in the process of rebooting my 120, (48x24x24), and I've got two pairs of clowns, (A.percula and A.ocellaris) that I'm trying to split between three H.magnifica anemones.
Everyone tells me that I'm going to be able to get two mated pairs of clowns in a 120, even if they have their own anemone on opposite sides of the tank....just looking for some real world experience here.
How many pairs of clowns do you have in the 75?
I'm in the process of rebooting my 120, (48x24x24), and I've got two pairs of clowns, (A.percula and A.ocellaris) that I'm trying to split between three H.magnifica anemones.
Everyone tells me that I'm going to be able to get two mated pairs of clowns in a 120, even if they have their own anemone on opposite sides of the tank....just looking for some real world experience here.
Certain color seem to have deeper color, in a sense that the color all the way from the tip to the base of the tentacles, other colors the color just at the tip.
IME Green coloration look better because the color is deeper while blue and purple, the color only at the tip.
Your anemone color seem to be in bluer light than Taylor or myself. Our light is brighter but more in the 5000K range rather than 10,000K or 12,000K or even 20,000K
I hope you see what I am talking about here:
Mines under 20K so obviously there's extra blue/purple added from the lights to mask the color effects. But it's the same in daylight. Here's a picture from QT with only ambient sunlight from the windows. Just wondering if mine was gonna stay this way or change like yours.
I love the looks of all you and Taylor's gigs, I wouldn't complain one bit if they turned out looking like either. This is my first healthy one so I'm excited to see how things unfold.
Few more days then it's gonna be with my haddoni. Hope they get along because they will end up touching at some point.
Few more days then it's gonna be with my haddoni. Hope they get along because they will end up touching at some point.
taylor t
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Both of my tanks have 4 clowns each. They are all siblings. Only 1 pair spawns in each tank, with a 3rd wheel, and a 4th punching bag. Both pairs seem to happily accept a 3rd wheel, and both pairs seem to enjoy using the 4th as a punching bag, all 3 bully the 4th. Both tanks they act the same.
Pete had 2 pairs in his 120, 2'x4', and (I think) only 1 pair spawned, and they bullied the other female. He had 6 clowns in a 120 with 6 gigs. It appeared to me, there was 3-4 that grouped up together, all bullied the smaller female, and one that was an odd one that no one paid any attention to that stayed super tiny in size.
I don't have much advice to offer for you with clowns, I'm sorry.
It's tips will get more colorful, and yes, healthy will have brown disk.
^^^I agree with this.
taylor t
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^^^I agree with this too.
