a year and a half in the planning

[adtravels]

I bought these fish 18 mo ago and hoped I would get a decent gigantea for them one day.
I have only had one opportunity at a gigantea in the last 12 months and it was in a mess when i got it.... it died as do so many.

one of my friends here rang me up with a great sps delivery so I went to the lfs and there was great sps.
just as i was about to purchase a nice maricultured colony,i saw it 5 inches in diameter, a blue gigantea, i checked for verrucae and a green base both present.

the sps went on hold and asked when he got the nem, he had had it for a MONTH and I missed it in the last shipment. It was attached to a clam shell so I brought both home.It has a tight mouth, has not collapsed once and has eaten mysis twice and is very sticky. I cannot believe it.

Thankfully the tank raised occs are ignoring it for now so it can acclimate more.
The fish have been in qt for 18 months they are really well conditioned.

the fish

the relative size


the nem

 

[Haddonisreef]

Wow that awesome! Hope the clowns will eventually take to the anemone! Small carpets are so flipping cool nice score! All your sps look very nice as well keep up the good work!

 

[magellan007]

wow, excellent find! your fish and tank are beautiful. (where did you get your fish from?)

 

[nckayaker]

thats a beautiful find. congrats! love the clowns too.

 

[GSMguy]

Sweet nem, nice color.

 

[adtravels]

Cheers the clowns are from australia, tank bred imports to thailand. They are extremely vigorous and feisty too (they will bite me hard when I cleaned their tank.
The nem still has not collapsed after three days which to me is a great sign as when they start collapsing and inflating it seems to be the beginnining of the end.

 

[adtravels]

Well the nem has been great, I has not really moved and not collapsed down once it looks bigger and I am happy with fingers crossed.
I have had a problem in the clowns would not host and as they have been in a tank with no nem for a year I feared they would not host at all.
I read a couple of threads here and decided to try the picture of clownfish in an anemone could not hurt I thought.
So a 6 ish I put the picture up against the tank wall with the halides still on.... nothing happened so I went out with my wife for supper and when I got back around 7.30 the actinics were on and yes the clowns were in the anemone rubbing up against it like they were on some serious drugs. I would have said that this would never have worked but it did.

The pics show how I did it and the pics I used.
The first one shows the fish in the background.

 

[dc]

:lol: Well good luck with it. I love your clownfish.

 

[Korrine]

I really like your clowns and your nem is beautiful.

Quick question if I can...Would you say the b/w clowns from Australia are less likely to have orange noses than the tank breds from England?? Or anyone else have an opinion on this?

Thanks and again congratulations

 

[BangkokMatt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13998513#post13998513 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
Well the nem has been great, I has not really moved and not collapsed down once it looks bigger and I am happy with fingers crossed.
I have had a problem in the clowns would not host and as they have been in a tank with no nem for a year I feared they would not host at all.
I read a couple of threads here and decided to try the picture of clownfish in an anemone could not hurt I thought.
So a 6 ish I put the picture up against the tank wall with the halides still on.... nothing happened so I went out with my wife for supper and when I got back around 7.30 the actinics were on and yes the clowns were in the anemone rubbing up against it like they were on some serious drugs. I would have said that this would never have worked but it did.

The pics show how I did it and the pics I used.
The first one shows the fish in the background.

Well I never. Good work! Am looking forward to seeing it.
How's my tank doing (Adam is looking after it whilst I'm out of town)

 

[adtravels]

Your tank is all good matt,the picture thing crazy.

I dont really know about black and whites from england having an orange face but alot of the fish we get here in thailand have orange faces as adults must be the parents I guess. I paid a hell of a lot for these two (for me and thai prices) but had some store credit/trade money so it did not seem so bad.

They are extremely well conditioned and look great so it could not have worked out better.
I am really pleased with nem its so hard to get them here now and one in good condition even harder.

 

[scottallert]

looks like a fuzzy clam
awesome looking clowns btw

 

[adtravels]

here we are at 3 weeks still early days but still no collapses or movement and I believe a little growth beyond normal expansion.

 

[dc]

That's a great picture.

 

[this is me]

Excellent find. I just picked up a gigantea as well and it's too early to be excited about right now but it is doing good.

 

[adtravels]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14114581#post14114581 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by this is me
Excellent find. I just picked up a gigantea as well and it's too early to be excited about right now but it is doing good.

I know, I posted on your thread I really hope your gets good its a stunner.

 

[adtravels]

On a side note, I really believe that this nemi s growing, my reason for saying this is that on the apex of the folds There are groups of shorter, lighter coloured tentacles of varying lengths which I can only attribute to new tentacles. If you look closley at the last photo you will be able to see the ones I mean.

 

[adtravels]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14114543#post14114543 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dc
That's a great picture.

Thanks but its out of focus and does not do them justice, time to clean the glass and get out the tripod.
I will get better.

 

[garygb]

Wow! The color of that gigantea is beautiful. The bw ocellaris add nice contrast. Any color clown would look stunning with that gigantea for background.

 

[adtravels]

still going strong, eating every other day, growing, I am bit by bit removing sps colonies to give more space.
It has still never collapsed or moved.