Gig QT question

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CoralsAddiction

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I bought a smaller gig today. It's in good shape. The gig is currently in a hospital tank. I don't proactively treat with Cipro unless I have to. My plan is to keep it in HT for 5-7 days and if there's no deflation then put it in DT with my large gig that's already in there. Would it be enough to do 50% daily water changes to avoid ammonia spike? Thanks.
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Sounds like a good plan, but if you can wait two weeks without deflation before putting it in the DT. It's a pain, but worth it.
 
D-Nak said:
Sounds like a good plan, but if you can wait two weeks without deflation before putting it in the DT. It's a pain, but worth it.
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Thanks, I can go two weeks. There is a fish store not too far away from me that sells saltwater using H2O salt mix which is pretty close to Red Sea Coral Pro that I use for my tank. The most time and resource consuming part is mixing water but because I found a good source for pre-made new seawater it will be much easier to go two weeks, especially if I am only making 50% water changes.
 
I wouldn't add a new gig to an established one unless I'm absolutely sure the new one is clean. Otherwise you may risk loosing both.
 
Since you find them in the wild in shallow waters and even tidal zones I would imagine that gigs handle temperature and salinity swings rather well. It's the one thing I really don't stress too much.

You could fight ammonia spikes by seeding a sponge filter in your established tank and put that in with the new nem. Or just add a hand full of gravel (or filter material) from your establishe tank. I actually thing just taking the water from your established tank will be good enough the get the QT seeded with the necessary bacteria.
In the tank with my purple one I haven't done any water change since the last cipro dose and that was a week ago. It still does fine.
 
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Looks like a good plan. I got burned a few times from adding anemones that are not 100% healthy. If you really like to collect anemones, it is not a bad idea to invest in a small tank that you can keep anemone in indefinably as a QT. I have a 20X18X18 full reef that I keep running just incase I find that special Gig or Mag.
I realize that this is not feasible for everybody. Mine is a skimmer-less DSB tank. I keep Macro algae in it and harvest them often. With no fish and only occasional bits of food for the fauna, it is really cheap to set up and run.
 
OrionN said:
Looks like a good plan. I got burned a few times from adding anemones that are not 100% healthy. If you really like to collect anemones, it is not a bad idea to invest in a small tank that you can keep anemone in indefinably as a QT. I have a 20X18X18 full reef that I keep running just incase I find that special Gig or Mag.
I realize that this is not feasible for everybody. Mine is a skimmer-less DSB tank. I keep Macro algae in it and harvest them often. With no fish and only occasional bits of food for the fauna, it is really cheap to set up and run.
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I have a 12 gallon cube aquarium (15x15x12) that was running full time until about two weeks ago. I did not think I would like to buy another gig so I tore it down. Otherwise it would have been much easier to QT anemones as you have suggested :)
 
the light just came on and the gig is doing ok. I had to shut one of the pumps off because it was raising the temp from 80 to 83 degrees. So margin of error basically non-existent like that. Back to 80 but gig might need a stronger pump.
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Yesterday there was a major salinity swing when I tried to raise it from 1.023 to 1.026. It actually went up to 1.029 before I brought it down to the desired level. The nem shrunk and early this morning it was deflated. A few hours later it came back to somewhat normal shape. I hope it was just upset because of salinity change but if it deflates again I will start cipro treatment tonight. Here's a pic from a few mins ago.
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I never raise salinity other than not add top off water. Quick increase in salinity kill a lot of animals. Often they tolerate quick decrease in salinity a lot better than quick increase in salinity.
 
I should have just left it alone especially given the fact that this is a small Gig, which I think may be a little more fragile than a bigger nem. The goal was to make the water params as close to DT as possible but it backfired.
The gig is inflated though. Here's a quick 15 sec video
http://youtu.be/g1T4ONckCoE
 
My LFS got two green gigs at $140 each. Beautiful and huge! They just got to the store shortly before I took the pic and sadly LFS employees don't know how to place them. That's why they are detached.
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Those green gigs are beautiful! Too bad they are never available around me, I've been looking for a long time. Good luck with your gig!
 
I did 50 percent water changes with a total volume of 5 gallons in the HT tank it worked fine. This for a small gig
 
I hate how these guys can go from great to terrible in a matter of minutes and out of the blue. Looks like the nem is expanding again which means it's most likely taking in the meds. As long as you stick to the protocol I think it will be fine.
 
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