blue carpet

[sjkarrow87]

am i healthy or not? mouth is tightly shut from what i saw its been in the stores system under pc lights for 3 days so can imagine its not all that great.

i have a 45 cube with 6t5 (3 ati blue plus/1kz fiji purple/1 ati blue special/1 giesman powerchrome midday) been running almost 14 months growing clams pretty well, water params are generally pretty stable

nitrate/nitrite pretty undetectable
temp 78-80
sg 1.021


costs me around $140, its around 6-7 inches

worth it?

 

[elegance coral]

It doesn't look great, but it's typical of a newly collected gigantea. The price is about half what they go for around here. This is a very difficult species, so if you get it, make sure it's going to a very stable system.

 

[sjkarrow87]

u thinkin gigantea over haddoni? i doubt my tank has room for it then

thats the 2nd gigantea ive passed up in 5 months that cost me less than $150 and both were dinner plate size (blue and green)

just my luck... i need another tank

 

[elegance coral]

I'm just judging from a pic. The tentacles give the anemone a "fuzzy" look that you typically don't see in haddoni. The spots on the underside can be very lite. Especially in an anemone that has lost some color, like the one pictured. I can't swear that it's gigantea, but it looks that way in the pic. A pic taken at a different time of day, or from a different angle, my cause me to change my mind. If you've seen this anemone in person, your guess is probably better than mine.

 

[this is me]

I think this gigantea has a great chance of surviving and thriving if your tank is up and stable.
However, with SG of 1.021, I doubt it would survive in the long run. Please raise this up slowly to 1.026-1.027. Make sure you're using a refractometer.
I would buy it in a heart beat if I see something like this and I already have two giganteas in the tank. Good looking gigantea like that is hard to come by.