Another gig attempt

[DrDNA]

Making another attempt at gigs. The small yellow one was a replacement from BlueZoo for a "green" that was grey brown. It went straight from the shipping bag to cipro in a QT for one week. It's been in the display for a week now with no deflation. It didn't deflate at all in QT and was attached to the inside of the shipping bag.

The second is a large purple I stumbled across at an LFS last week. They made me a great deal and it's been in QT for about 5 days now. First four days were with cipro only. It didn't look 100% so I've done one day with a combo of cipro and sulfa/trimethoprin.

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[DrDNA]

Here are a couple mertens i have in the same system

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[Ghlreefer]

Nice! The yellow should be a nice green when he colors up.

Can you get some column pics of those mert's?!

 

[DrDNA]

Nice! The yellow should be a nice green when he colors up.

Can you get some column pics of those mert's?!

Can't get a column pic of the red, but here is the green. I'm pretty sure it is a mertens, but it acts a little differently sometime . It tends to not lay flat but it's oral disk stretches upwards

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[DrDNA]

Im actually starting to wonder if it might be a gig with short stubby tentacles. The previous owner had for a year or so and bought it as a "green carpet"

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[WatDatThing]

Very nice. Good luck with the purple one.

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[DrDNA]

Very nice. Good luck with the purple one.

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Thanks!

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[DrDNA]

So... not to derail my own thread but does anyone think this might be helianthus?

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[Ghlreefer]

I didn't want to say it, but almost looks that way. Can you get a better pic with whites on?

 

[D-Nak]

Definitely looks like helianthus to me.

 

[Ghlreefer]

Should look like this:

 

[DrDNA]

Definitely looks like helianthus to me.

Thanks! I was starting to question my original ID... I got it for very cheap from a local reefer. I've never seen one in person before. Anyway, I'm fine with that. It does have kind of a cool yellow-green to it under blue LEDs

 

[Ghlreefer]

You can get them at Petco by the hundreds. I bought 4 of them one time because I thought they were gigs. Lol

If I had a dollar for every reefer that thought they had a gig when it was a S. Helianthus, I'd be a rich man.

I got rid of mine. I don't like them.

 

[DrDNA]

You can get them at Petco by the hundreds. I bought 4 of them one time because I thought they were gigs. Lol

If I had a dollar for every reefer that thought they had a gig when it was a S. Helianthus, I'd be a rich man.

I got rid of mine. I don't like them.

That's funny in a way... anyway sure glad I didn't pay a "gig" price for it...

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[pfan151]

Looks like the one from blue zoo will end up being nice once it colors back up. Good luck.

 

[Swayze27]

I bought a helianthus by mistake but once I realized what it was the LFS accepted it back. I was thinking that's what you had as well.

 

[DrDNA]

Looks like the one from blue zoo will end up being nice once it colors back up. Good luck.

Thanks!

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[DrDNA]

The purple looks good today. I sucked out some large globs of dead zoox. The green has been open most of the day but draws into the rocks by late afternoon. Should I back off on the LED intensity? It's under a kessil a360we at 100% with the dial turned all the way to white, plus a 165w led s-box with both channels at 100%.

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[pfan151]

My tiny green is doing something similar. It never deflates but it balls itself up once in a while. Not sure why. I tried turning down the lighting but it didnt seem to change the behavior. It has been eating fine and has been doing it less frequently as time has passed. Mine has been in the display for a week or so.

 

[DrDNA]

My tiny green is doing something similar. It never deflates but it balls itself up once in a while. Not sure why. I tried turning down the lighting but it didnt seem to change the behavior. It has been eating fine and has been doing it less frequently as time has passed. Mine has been in the display for a week or so.

Ok thanks. Mine has been in the DT about 5 days

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