Flat gig

[durb992000]

Morning everyone,
I have recently had 2 gigs put through the ciprofloxacin treatment as they were looking a bit ropey. Both made excellent progress after 10 days of treatment and neither were deflating so I moved them back to the display tank. Since then they have been ok but not improving massively. The mouths on both are tight and they don't deflate as such but are quite flat to the rocks they are attached to. The bigger one has it's foot attached between two rocks and is extended out but the disc is flat around the surrounding rock and not puffed out. Both take food readily and have some extension to the tentacles and have a bit of a shaggy appearance.
So while they are both recovering nems and seem to be doing ok is there anything I can do to help the, puff out more? The tank is 60x30x30 with 2xmp40 in 100% reef crest mode.
Thanks in advance,
James

 

[worm5406]

Can we get some pictures?

How old are the tanks?
Temp?
levels?
others inhabitants?

 

[xtlosx]

Leave them be... They have just been through he** and back with cipro, and need time to recover, just like humans after an antibiotic treatment..

As long as they are NOT deflating like a sick gig, leave them be. Don't feed them either until they've been recovering for much longer.. You don't want the energy to go to food consumption, you want it to go to recovering.

My green gig never saw cipro, but had stubby haddoni like tentacles, and now 2.5 months in is BARELY showing shag... They take time to recover, sometimes a lot of it.

 

[Greg 45]

anemones take time to recover
I used to use doxycycline never tried cipro
just give them clean water and dose lugols iodine

 

[durb992000]

Thanks for all of the replies.
Tank is approximately 13 months old. Parameters are as follows:
Ali - 8.6 dkh
Ca - 420ppm
Mg - 1280ppm
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - trace
Temp - 83
Water movement provided by 2 x mp40 and 1 x 6105. Lights are 2 x 160w razors.
Other stock is mainly lps with some sps.
Im sure I read on here that some people recommend feeding gigs during the recovery phase? They seem to take food well and both are sticky. Dosing Lugosi is a good idea which I will do.
Thanks again guys,
James

 

[durb992000]

Here are some, rather poor, pictures of the two anemones. They are slightly smaller than they usually are as lights are dimming down now. They both take food readily and are very sticky. As stated above they have recently undergone ciprofloxacin treatment and showed excellent improvement while in the hospital tank. The anemones have not worsened since being reintroduced to the display tank but neither have they shown any real improvement.
Filtration on the tank is reef octopus 3000xp skimmer, Gyractor running bio pearls and a refugium housing Chaeto algae.
Any ideas on what I can do to help them?
Thanks in advance,
James

 

[OrionN]

They seem to be doing OK othet than been bleached. It take time for them to recover. Take good care of them and you will notice elongating tentacles in a few weeks. Feed them small pieces first, no more than every other days. Look at some threads on New Gigantea and you will see how the otheres recovered. I had a thread on mine about 1 year ago.

 

[xtlosx]

That's how my green looked.. scrunched up, but about 3 months later, it's now turning into a Gig with elongated tentacles. Take good care of it as Minh said and it will recover.

 

[OrionN]

Looks like you anemones are just right on schedule. This is the thread on my Gigantea and pictures as it get better. I did not have to treat it with any antibiotic, but it was in poor shape when I got it.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2196701

 

[durb992000]

Hi guys,
Thanks for all of your feedback, I really do appreciate it. I have read every article under the sun on this forum about gig anemones and have seen some great success stories especially after treatment with ciprofloxacin.
After just coming in from work they both seemed to have opened up more than I've seen in the past with slightly longer tentacles.
I will update in a week or so time to show progress.
Thanks again for all your help.
James