Carpet nem owners

[Creetin]

Another day where the nem looks great. Found a pep shrimp too, But i could not catch him. I need to find a way to trap him or get the fish o have been scared to get because he would eat my cleaner shrimp. (Tusk) Also scared he would munch on my clowns.
Do you guys think a tusk will be a bad idea with the nem?

 

[Creetin]

Nevermind i guess it will eat when its ready. Watched all the feeding vids on youtube, and it does not look like the gig is ready yet. It is very sticky now which is a very good sign.

 

[austinh]

thats a beautiful nem good luck and keep fighting. that would be cool if it did split

 

[isseym328]

Had my purple Gigantea for a yr and half now. It does deflate occasionally so no worries on that.

make sure also that your clowns are not beating up on it too much. I've had anemones in the past that died because they were not big enough to hold a pair of clowns.

good luck!

 

[Creetin]

Thanks all, The clowns were beating it up at first but have calmed down.. I think they were overly excited at first. The nem is over 18 inches wide.
Glad to hear yours has been around that long. Hoping to make mine a life long tank inhabitant.

 

[Creetin]

Its still shrinking everyday for an hour or so and expanding back up for the most part. Looks to be clensing (Pooping)rather than dieing now. JMO
Still doing daily 35 gallon water changes which I feel is the biggest factor of it's progress. (Thanks Sugartooth!)
I have been taking pictures of its progression thru the good and the bad, The weird observations of the new mouth and what odd things its doing trying to seperate. It will ball itself up into where the foot is forming and look like the ritteri ball.
Not out of the woods, But i feel its progressing nicely.
For once i feel the hard work is paying off, Along with 3 buckets of salt. The mouths are puckering up tight and its still sticky.
Looks like it took in some pellet food that i fed my fish today.
I pulled the clowns out again i think they are not really helping things. They pull food away from the nem and push it off. Untill the nem is aggressively eating they will stay in the hole.
Heres a vid of it yesterday.
I still feel it can go south in me quickl, Its not 100% by any means.

 

[hansonfam]

Hold on its not over yet
I have a green and a purple in my tank and the purple one just went through a spell of about a week where it shrunk,inflated over and over again. I thought i he was done for. But after a few water changes he is bigger and healthier looking than ever.
I did have a multi color who did the same thing and just kept losing mass and eventually i had to pull him but there was just no pleasing him. I will mention that the mutli i had had for 8 months and was established and growing and the purple one i have had for 6 months now i guess...I think some kind of infection kicks in and they either can fight it or not...

As for the mixing of nems with these guys i wouldn't suggest it. Maybe if you have a very large system but i managed a few weeks ago to find by pure luck a Mertins. I put him originally in with the gigs as he was only about 4 inches and sure enough everyone looked bad within about 2 days and i pulled in and everyone went back to normal.Mertins is good in his tank and Gigs are back to normal...

I just cant justify the risk in a smaller system.

Hope that helps and good luck

Lisa

 

[Creetin]

Thank you for your info!!!
This gig is solo now and will remain that way in my 300 gallon, unless it splits for me. I have a 28 gal nano i was going to use for a smaller haddoni tank. He will be the only thing in there besides a clownfish pair.
As for infection you are correct adding new/stressed/sick one's in the tank I believe it can give it to the healthy nems.
A local has successfully used antibiotics on her long time haddoni which was very sick.

 

[Creetin]

BTW when you mentioned a green and purple that reminds me I seen the most amazing gigantea when I bought mine. Wish I would have saved the picture!! A multicolor lime green and purple gigantea!!! It was a sweet nem!!

 

[Creetin]

OK it seems to be getting a little better day bay day. I would not say its out of trouble. What i did was notice was the last week is that the Gig is stretching away from each end. What i mean is one mouth and partial of the nem stays put and one end wants to pull away. Could be nothing, could be that its like a Siamese twin one want to do one thing and the other wants to do another. Could be that it's because its splitting, Or could be that it wants to kill the corals i keep moving further away from it. LOL
Every time i move the corals over the nem stretches a little more the next day and is almost on top of the corals or on top of it stinging it. Could be that its taking out the comp which i believe is more believable. It is now stretching around 18 inches from its base and grabbing on.
It got on a catspaw and stung that to hell today. and is now reaching for some yuma ricordia's. It did also stung some palys i moved too the other day.. The nem takes up 1/3rd of my tank that it can reach to and sting. LOL
Anybody else have exp like this that their gig wants to hunt down corals? Theres no way i am giving up this nem, I would rather have my 300 gallon be a all gig tank than have to get rid of it.

 

[Creetin]

Well weird times going on, Up and down rollercoaster!
Well its still alive, and i thought it was a turn for the worst yesterday, and thought it would ge a goner today.
NOPE
Now the main trunk of the foot had moved, the other one had taken that spot. The little mouth i talked about earlier in this thread that seemed to pop up outta no where now is functional and moved. The main mouth is stretching apart! I can start to see 2 seperate nems out of it. I have never seen this!!! I dunno if its dieing or splitting! I am hoping splitting and will live!!!!
I am taking pics of every phase and i will put together every pic by term of splitting if thats the case.
If it dies then i'll delete and know i was just crazy. (Which i may be) Wish me and the nem luck! All i can do is what i can, Keep water clean and perams stabil.

 

[Creetin]

I know most of these posts are from me. LOL But i'll keep it going.
New happenings today. The gig is coming apart, I cant say i am happy about it though as its causing lots of water quality issues.
(This looks to be by my observations!)The nem splits by dissolving the flesh that needs to go, and it pretty much dissolves and falls off. How do I know its not dead?
Well atleast for now there is one healthy side, and you can see destintively where the new one will be.
The older side takes the brunt of the problems by splitting down the mouth. The new mouth is in place where it should be in the trasition side of the nem. For the most part of the disk is sticky, and is moving and parrtially inflating the nem is responsive to its surroundings. Not inflating like it was, but still a good sign. I will know soon enough if its going to turn to a rotting mess, or i'll have 2 gigs.
Its a challenge and a costly venture for me to keep it and provide for it. Just got my 4th buckett of salt and am going to start 2 a day 35 gallon waterchanges. (Morn/Night) Hopefully it will make it as i have spent more in salt, carbon, and gfo than i did for the nem!!
I doubled up on carbon today carbon change out is weekly. Running 4-5 cups of GFO as well. If this is what happens when gigs split i dont want to have another split!!

 

[jdrabek]

Well if you lose it, it was'nt from lack of trying. Good luck.

 

[tufacody]

really need a pic to see if this is a split or deteriorization.

 

[Creetin]

Well i had to make an executive decision late last night. The water was getting really murky, and rather risk all my livestock I took a knife to the nem and thow half away. Glad i did because there was more rotting than what I seen underneath the nem. I may have to do another quick trim today, But will see how it go's. Theres a small flap I left because it looked healthy. Hope it does ok. The other half is still alive today and is connecting to form a circle, It just needs to heal.
Dunno if it will live, But if I didn't cut it, it would have surely stressed out the tank and would have let off a hell of an ammonia spike.
I have a bunch of pics I have to upload of it doing its thing, But I feel I cannot prove thats why it was doing that now. More like it was just gonna die and thats why the odd behavior. There were 3 seperate nems 2 had to go.
I'll post them anyway later today you guys can draw your own conclusions.


Thanks for all the help here. I am not thinking its going to make it, But as long as its not rotting i wont get rid of it.
Start saving for a haddoni. Maybe a red one.

 

[sugartooth]

Sorry Creetin, that's so tough to take. Good luck with any future nems. Just know that Haddoni's will just about give you an aneurysm as much as Giganteas. I have a Haddoni only tank and I still worry about them too...