Found a nice gigantea this weekend.

[adtravels]

Hi all just got back from a trip to Ko samet here in Thailand, not far from Bangkok really. the tide was low in the mornings and I managed to find a nice gigantea, whilst collecting some snails. I was nice green tips and a pink base colour, orange under the disc with purple spots. And before you ask, I left it alone, its a marine park and too beautiful to touch!

No clowns in this one but pink skunks in others around. Funny, its supposed not to be here according to many text books.

here next to my foot as a comparison

and finally a view of the general habitat they are found in here

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

beautiful!
thanks for sharing info/pix. This anemone strongly resembles mine except my specimen is green under the disc and on the base. Interesting habitat.

 

[adtravels]

The fringing/patch reef starts a bit further out there is some nice sps but the underwater vis is usually bad so I only get to see it once or twice a year if I am lucky.
Thare are some big mag's about here too.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

your pic of the rocky coast was taken at low tide?

 

[adtravels]

yes, very low tide. the deepest i have seen a gig here is about 3 metres at high tide 1.5m at low tide. I think the light and surge dictate the depth with this species, I have seen them all over , Thailand and Borneo, Malaysia, never deeper than a couple of metres and always in the surge/wave zone.

 

[criccio]

Your pics remind me of the ones Lewy posted of the gig at Darwin, AU. Just goes to show how much "flow" and light these guys really need. Great stuff.

 

[OrionN]

That explain why it is hard to keep this species. The water movement got to be incredible. The light got to be extremely bright. Rod is right all along when he suggested that a surge and bright light is needed to keep S. gigantea. That is how he keep his Giganteas

 

[marc price]

Re: Found a nice gigantea this weekend.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15149744#post15149744 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
No clowns in this one but pink skunks in others around. Funny, its supposed not to be here according to many text books.

can you take some pic's of them? we should update the natural clownfish/host anemone list.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

hosts copied from the Anemone FAQ:

hosts copied from the Anemone FAQ:

Stichodactyla gigantea (gigantic or carpet)
A. akindynos
A. bicinctus
A. clarkii
A. ocellaris
A. percula
A. perideraion = pink skunk clownfish
A. rubrocinctus

 

[tufacody]

awesome!!! I love wildlife shots like this, tyvm!

 

[marc price]

gary, i read of that association in many books. i think documented pictures of pink skunk and other clownfishes associating with non-primary host would be a good supplement to the list. helps prove or disprove information copied from one source to another, one such example being A. chrysogaster/M. doreensis. according to F&Allen the range of M. doreensis doesn't extend to Mauritius and Reunion, that of A. chrysogaster. yet F&Allen and the anemone faq note M. dor. as a host of A. chrysogaster. neither list A. polymnus/M. dor. and J. Sprung inverts book has a photo of a pair of saddlebacks/M. dor. shot in the salomons.

well i'm on the subject, what do you guy's make of this underwater photograph taken at the GBR of "nemo and bubble tip anemone"?? - http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2154286110089596439hMxJDO

 

[adtravels]

Looks like the elusive perc in a H.crsipa shot to me!
I have a photo of polymnus in a LTA in the wild here in thailand i will try to dig it out its now on my external hard drive.

 

[adtravels]

Also accoring to Fautin and allen S. gigantae is not found in the gulf of Thailand.

 

[marc price]

...but look at the the consecutive pictures #51-54, in #54 one of the two is positively A. ocellaris and i think that actually is E. quadricolor bta neighboring a carpet poss., S. mertensii to the left of a Euphyllia coral?? http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2156707600089596439bhqbRv

 

[tpdpercula]

Beautiful pics, you are very lucky to have such view somewhat close to you.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15154650#post15154650 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
Also accoring to Fautin and allen S. gigantae is not found in the gulf of Thailand.

Fautin/Allen contains many mistakes. It's a good read but it's a dated reference. Nice link, Marc- thanks for sharing.

 

[adtravels]

Having looked at those 4 pics again, there is somthing very "not right" about them, can you see?

 

[OrionN]

They look like photoshop picture. Aquarium picture that patch with background to make it look like in the reef. I can clearly see the line where they cut and paste.

 

[adtravels]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15158760#post15158760 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
Fautin/Allen contains many mistakes. It's a good read but it's a dated reference. Nice link, Marc- thanks for sharing.

agreed, I love it the drawings are fantastic.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15159004#post15159004 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adtravels
Having looked at those 4 pics again, there is somthing very "not right" about them, can you see?

those pix seemed peculiar to me as well....