2 blue gigs.

Pericyte · Jul 19, 2016

Very pretty gigs.

nemguy · Jul 19, 2016

This is so awesome! My favorite thread! Keep it up Taylor! Your gig keeping skills are amazing!

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taylor t · Jul 20, 2016

Pericyte said:
Very pretty gigs.

Thanks

nemguy said:
This is so awesome! My favorite thread! Keep it up Taylor! Your gig keeping skills are amazing!

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Thanks. Doesn't feel like a skill, but thanks.

So, I just spent some time looking at the 75 gigs. I have 2 purple females. Minh, I can see the eggs moving inside the tentacles like you said you saw in your malu. I just watched the other purple, have a white egg move from the disk, to the tip of the tentacle in about 20 seconds. A good 1" travel pretty quick. They definitely move on their own.

pfan151 · Jul 20, 2016

Definitely a cool thread. It would be incredible to one day be able to buy captive bred carpet anemones.

Led reef · Jul 23, 2016

Good color anemones

swimmer4uus · Jul 30, 2016

Any signs of eggs still in gestation?

taylor t · Jul 30, 2016

taylor t · Jul 30, 2016

pfan151 said:
Definitely a cool thread. It would be incredible to one day be able to buy captive bred carpet anemones.

I think it will still be a while before that happens. I'm suspecting the little ones need food, like a baby clown. In my system, I don't feed much, and remove all the algae with 5 gallon water changes, so it's possible they settle into the algae and I syphon them out before they get a chance to grow, but I need to get the algae out before it rots, and it grows quickly.

Led reef said:
Good color anemones

Thanks! High light brings out the color. Lower light makes their brown more dominant.

swimmer4uus said:
Any signs of eggs still in gestation?

Some days I see a dozen or more, other days I don't see any. They move, not constantly, but sometimes they move pretty quick, other times they sit in one spot. Kind of like the baby shrimp that grow in a slow area of a fuge. Some are racing around and others are pretty still. Then all at once it starts to travel to the disk, then go back to the tip. They don't constantly seem to move, but when they do, it's relatively quick considering their size.

taylor t · Jul 30, 2016

Drop box didn't post the pics like I'd hoped. If the links don't let you pan though to see, let me know and I'll try something else. There's 14 consecutive pics in a small time frame to see it travel.

taylor t · Aug 8, 2016

I added a few more pics from tonight. Not sure if everyone can see them.

OrionN · Aug 8, 2016

no picture here

OrionN · Aug 8, 2016

Upload picture to ReefCentral. Must resize pictures to max 800X800. Here is our first picture from post #387

taylor t · Aug 8, 2016

OrionN said:
no picture here

That's my problem. I don't know how to resize if it doesn't do it automatically. I can see them all, probably because I used that site from my computer, I thought everyone could see them. I'll have to find another site or start deleting photo's in phototbucket I've got linked and replace them with newer ones. Anyways, there's just a bunch of consecutive pics in a short time window to show the travel, then a bunch of baby pics I got last night. I used a magnifying glass with my ipone and they came out ok, not as good of detail as I hoped, but is atleast recognizable. It will be a decayed blob in a couple days tops. I can't get them to last if separated from the system. I've tried multiple things to try raising, I can't.
Here's just a couple of them.

taylor t · Aug 8, 2016

OrionN · Aug 8, 2016

Do you have any picture management software at all? The software from camera works too. Any of these, MS picture viewer, Photoshop, .... all have tab you can easily reduce size of picture to what ever you want.

OrionN · Aug 8, 2016

are they attached to something? You should be able to raise them if they attache to something.

Gig 'em · Aug 11, 2016

I've looked through this thread before and oooooohed and awwwwed at the pictures, but tonight I read through every page. I'm very impressed by all the work that went into this tank and the anemones. I just went through a failed treatment of a gig and it seems like where mine died is where you were originally about to give up. I'm not sure where I went wrong and you had luck, perhaps your second treatment round with cipro with the blues made the difference? Can you think of anything that could have turned that blue one around and saved its life?

It's awesome that your anemones seem to be spawning. Did this correlate with the addition of the new lights and the lunar modes? Or do you think this resulted from happy anemones with other males and females around that could be signalling each other to spawn?

Have you tried putting the baby anemones in a container in the tank with coral rubble and a transparent mesh screen over top to keep them from floating away? This could give them some water flow, light, a protective sanctuary to grow, and substrate to attach to when they're old enough and strong enough to hold on. I know this method is used by people to get zoas and mushrooms to attach to new rubble and works pretty well. I would even think of building or buying a breeders cage made of transparent mesh and collecting them in there until they grow older while feeding them pods or finely chopped up prepared foods. Just an idea, I would love to get my hands on a few of those babies to try raising myself!

pauls · Aug 11, 2016

Yellow

Yellow

taylor t said:
How is this guy doing? Updated pic please?

Here's a pic of Robbie's green from tonight.

Is it just me or is that green actually a BRIGHT YELLOW ?

taylor t · Aug 12, 2016

OrionN said:
Do you have any picture management software at all? The software from camera works too. Any of these, MS picture viewer, Photoshop, .... all have tab you can easily reduce size of picture to what ever you want.

I'm sharp at a lot of things, computers isn't one of them. My brothers are all computer nerds, dad owned a computer shop. Irony's of life...

OrionN said:
are they attached to something? You should be able to raise them if they attache to something.

Nope. With in a few days, they melt every time. I don't get it.

Gig 'em said:
I've looked through this thread before and oooooohed and awwwwed at the pictures, but tonight I read through every page. I'm very impressed by all the work that went into this tank and the anemones. I just went through a failed treatment of a gig and it seems like where mine died is where you were originally about to give up. I'm not sure where I went wrong and you had luck, perhaps your second treatment round with cipro with the blues made the difference? Can you think of anything that could have turned that blue one around and saved its life?

It's awesome that your anemones seem to be spawning. Did this correlate with the addition of the new lights and the lunar modes? Or do you think this resulted from happy anemones with other males and females around that could be signalling each other to spawn?

Have you tried putting the baby anemones in a container in the tank with coral rubble and a transparent mesh screen over top to keep them from floating away? This could give them some water flow, light, a protective sanctuary to grow, and substrate to attach to when they're old enough and strong enough to hold on. I know this method is used by people to get zoas and mushrooms to attach to new rubble and works pretty well. I would even think of building or buying a breeders cage made of transparent mesh and collecting them in there until they grow older while feeding them pods or finely chopped up prepared foods. Just an idea, I would love to get my hands on a few of those babies to try raising myself!

Thanks, I've tried all kinds of things. My tanks are really not a pristine reef keeper's tank. Lots of overgrowth, cyno, algae, etc. I think the next guy that gets them to spawn, IF his tank is set up to collect the overflow water to a settle out tank area before dumping into the sump, THAT is the guy that will be able to take it to the next level. I can't understand why when I find them, they melt a couple days later every time, but I don't have an environment set up to cater to them properly either. I'm wondering if they need special food, like food someone raising clown babies would have on hand. I continue to see them moving in the tents of both purples. Some days I see more than others, but they are still there. There is a LOT of flow in this tank. Pretty much impossible to find, let alone catch one. By the time one is seen, pumps turn off, water slows enough to see, it's gone. They need to be caught by overflows.

pauls said:
Is it just me or is that green actually a BRIGHT YELLOW ?

That's actually a bright green. It's the lights that make it look yellow. 100% LED, and some of them are 5K color, that brings out the yellow.

taylor t · Aug 12, 2016

I was going through some pics from last year. Here's a few more pics of ones I've found. I don't remember if I posted these or not, if I did, sorry for the repeat.
This one was the biggest one I found so far, last year. It was just about to flop off a big piece of cyno that was getting ready to let go. Here it is in the shot glass. Melted after a couple days like the rest.

Here's a close up.

Here's a green one I found. From last year. They were really easy to see when actinics turned on. I haven't seen any green in a long time. Only purple ones lately.

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