Found a very healthy looking blue gigantea! Help me with best placement!

I was floating through and found your thread, I just stumbled across one myself today and picked him up , Im just wondering if he is going to effect my clams at all and if he moves what in my system do i need to worry about seeings as I have a prodominate sps system? here is a pic of mine.

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i have had a gigantea for 10 months now, and i just switched to a 10k bulb and the anenome is loving it. With the other bulbs i had, ranging from pheonix, reeflux, xm and hamilton, It justed seemed to get by. Now it is flourishing.
 
CaptiveReefer03- That's a nice blue gigantea. It will smother your stonies if it decides to climb over any. Hopefully it will stay down low and not mess with them. He shouldn't affect your clams, again, unless he smothers them or if they are continually stung by him.
Chris79- I've got t let these XM 20Ks run for at least another 10 months before I consider switching them out for any other bulbs. I just forked out $80 per bulb only about 6 weeks ago for them ;)
Interesting to hear that your nem likes the 10K better. I think Phil or Tony mentioned the same reaction. If this gigantea starts to decline, maybe I'll try adding a 10K over his position to see if that makes any difference.
Here are two more pics from tonight. He seems to have settled in nicely where I put him.
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Wow there seem to be blue gigantea's popping up all over the place down there for you guys. Share some of the wealth eh?!!!! :p

.. <sigh> well it was worth a try. Darn it!

Pics are lookin' good there Sonofgaladriel. You too, captivereefer03, good luck with him. Oh and in answer to your questions ... no real problem keeping the anemone alongside clams and SPS so long as they don't touch. They (clams and SPS) will not do well at all if touched by the anemone. I burned a few SPS frags before moving my one carpet out of my SPS-ish tank, after 2 years the growth rate suddenly exploded and the carpet was getting very large very quickly and now covering all corals that were once well over 6" to 8" away.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8797351#post8797351 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sonofgaladriel
Tony- Are you running 10K halides?
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"Sort of." (Let me explain. :) ). As you know I have two. Each were in separate tanks before they were in the 40g. Each of those tanks were run with 10k's (one was Ushio 175's, the other was (and still is) XM 250's). Currently the 40g is an Iwasaki 14k. (I love this bulb.) Despite that it's labelled 14k it's really more of a 10k colour (probably what a "real 10k" should look like).
 
I didn't want to make another thread so I decided to join this one as a "bump" just to make it bigger. :D

Here is the Green Gigantea aka Green Gem I got today. I took a chance buying because its mouth was gapin open but it was for sale for 30 bucks which is a deal. There is no way I am not going to deny that. Here is the pictures.

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what kind of flow is in that aquarium, 55semi?
I don't see how either of the gigantea in this thread are being provided with the correct environmental conditions to survive for very long.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8804725#post8804725 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
what kind of flow is in that aquarium, 55semi?
I don't see how either of the gigantea in this thread are being provided with the correct environmental conditions to survive for very long.
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What do you consider "correct environmental conditions to survive"? I thought I had the basics covered:
I have mine in a very mature and stable tank.
It has strong random flow via 12 random closed loop returns.
It has strong light from 4 250 watt DE halides.
Other than having a few other nems in the tank, what am I lacking or "not" providing?
Oh, the rose BTA you see in the pic above is at least 14 inches away from the gigantea. The depth of the tank is very deceiving in the pics. The tank is 4 feet deep but photographs likes its only 18 inches.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8804725#post8804725 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
what kind of flow is in that aquarium, 55semi?
I don't see how either of the gigantea in this thread are being provided with the correct environmental conditions to survive for very long.
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Why? I have over a 1000 plus gph in my tank in a my 55 gallon. How is that not enough flow? I have Tek T5 lighting unit on my tank with individual reflectors, putting out more light than some 250 watt MH units. Not to mention, it puts about 18 inches of penetration out. Oh and the tank is a year old. I have a skimmer thats rated up to 250 gallons on my tank as well. I don't get it why I don't have the nessesities. Can you explain?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8804779#post8804779 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sonofgaladriel
What do you consider "correct environmental conditions to survive"? I thought I had the basics covered:
I have mine in a very mature and stable tank.
It has strong random flow via 12 random closed loop returns.
It has strong light from 4 250 watt DE halides.
Other than having a few other nems in the tank, what am I lacking or "not" providing?
Oh, the rose BTA you see in the pic above is at least 14 inches away from the gigantea. The depth of the tank is very deceiving in the pics. The tank is 4 feet deep but photographs likes its only 18 inches.
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IME gigantea will not tolerate the presence of equad in the same aquarium- and vice versa. There's a good chance your gigantea was trying to relocate away from the equad. (Yes, they can sense each other's presence in the same aquarium. A distance of 14" is very close!) Gigantea carpets are notoriously difficult to maintain and (personally) I wouldn't even place one in the same aquarium as another large host anemone species.
The anemone should be placed near a sand/smooth rock interface and get "washed" back and forth by strong alternating currents. One puncture from a sharp rock or coral and your anemone is done for. This anemone species is likely to do better in a shallow aquarium with 400w halides than a deeper one with 250's.
FWIW I sincerely hope that all of these anemones "pull through".
 
Thanks for the clarification. If this nem survives the weekend, I'll do my best to move it to the 40 gallon all by itself. It will have the tank to itself and plenty of high random flow.
I was hoping to give the new tank another week to settle in but we'll have to see. It was stocked with water and rock from the 240, so I'm hoping it is about ready for the nem.
 
How can they sense each others presence when carbon is running? I have seen other carpets with other large hosting anemones before and they were healthy.

FWIW, the only anemone if one were to die would be the Gigantea. Blue Haddoni is pretty stable and my H. Crispa is a beast. My Equadricolor are more than 14 inches away.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8804884#post8804884 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Why? I have over a 1000 plus gph in my tank in a my 55 gallon. How is that not enough flow? I have Tek T5 lighting unit on my tank with individual reflectors, putting out more light than some 250 watt MH units. Not to mention, it puts about 18 inches of penetration out. Oh and the tank is a year old. I have a skimmer thats rated up to 250 gallons on my tank as well. I don't get it why I don't have the nessesities. Can you explain?
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Sure. You have multiple anemone species in the same aquarium with a gigantea.
One of them (H. gigantea) requires a type of water flow the other two anemones will shun- massive alternating back and forth flow.
It's usually somewhat difficult to judge water flow from pictures, but I'm looking at your water returns, powerheads, livestock and HOT overflow box and I don't see where you'd be getting the water motion that's required to maintain a healthy gigantea. (The kind of flow that I'm describing would rock those clams over on their sides, for example.)

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8804991#post8804991 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
How can they sense each others presence when carbon is running? I have seen other carpets with other large hosting anemones before and they were healthy.
FWIW, the only anemone if one were to die would be the Gigantea. Blue Haddoni is pretty stable and my H. Crispa is a beast. My Equadricolor are more than 14 inches away.
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Anemones can sense each others presence in the wide open ocean. Your carbon is only partially affecting a small portion of aquarium water that's passing throught it and your anemones are in the same display aquarium. No aquarium, (no matter how well filtered), is 100% free of allelopathic compounds produced by it's inhabitants.
No doubt if one your anemones should die it would be the gigantea.
 
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