Gig updates

[taylor t]

The 210 green seems to be growing.



I've got 12 onyx, and this one I'm not sure what it is, but in watching it interact with all the others, most likely will be the head female.


Mr. (or Mrs.) Malu may need to be relocated soon. They keep touching now, and malu isn't happy about it.


This is very close to real life color of my 75 green gig.


Flow was turned to feed for the pics, no flow.

 

[taylor t]

Here's a good mouth shot from tonight. Shows the 3" ones that cover the mouth.

 

[Reefahholic]

I sure like that green! Eye Candy for sure!

Can't wait till Pete's have their full color back.

 

[clorox]

+1 that's a beautiful gig. Are those juvenile clowns?

 

[unicospollos]

Woowww that's amazing anemone tank man ! Ey you have 11true percula onix and 1 Picasso onix,

 

[ptr13]

very nice job of recovering that nem, thought he had the last straw Dave when he was in my tank. Nice coloration and I am drooling lol

 

[marc price]

The 210 green seems to be growing.

Awesome photo!

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[taylor t]

I sure like that green! Eye Candy for sure!

Can't wait till Pete's have their full color back.

Thanks! I think Pete's are on their way to recovery now. He's got a nice green now, what a great score.

+1 that's a beautiful gig. Are those juvenile clowns?

Thanks! Yes, I traded a friend of mine my old chocolate glazed trio for some onyx. I like them, they are much nicer on the anemone's. That chocolate trio, the female was an absolute brute.

Woowww that's amazing anemone tank man ! Ey you have 11true percula onix and 1 Picasso onix,

...Thanks for my clowns... I really like them, the black is really starting to darken up now on some of them. They've split into two groups, one group of four never leave the mertens, the rest bounce between the green gig and the sebae.

very nice job of recovering that nem, thought he had the last straw Dave when he was in my tank. Nice coloration and I am drooling lol

Thanks! Sometimes, they're just picky, I don't know why it didn't do well in your system with the rest of yours, all the others in your tank were/are doing well. I can't believe it hung on as long as it did, and looks like it does now. Just doesn't make sense sometimes....

Awesome photo!

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thanks!

 

[taylor t]

FTS








Papa's in the back tending their nest.

 

[unico]

Wow they look amazing!

 

[ctran]

I really like your small purple gig. I hope i will find one like that some day.

 

[asudavew]

Really nice Taylor.

 

[JasonD]

great biotope

 

[taylor t]

Wow they look amazing!

I really like your small purple gig. I hope i will find one like that some day.

Really nice Taylor.

great biotope

Thanks everyone!


Looking at the pic of the blue I posted yesterday, the middle looks a bit bleached. This is how it normally looks, I think it explains why it looked bleached in the earlier pic. The MP40's are on yellow on high usually. This is what they normally look like (through the hazy glass):

After I posted the pic yesterday, it looked a bit bleached. I'm thinking it's in this position most all the time, so most of the outside gets all the light, the center doesn't get a lot of light.

 

[OrionN]

I think your Gigantea tank looks great. The Gigs are all look healthy to me.

 

[asudavew]

I think your Gigantea tank looks great. The Gigs are all look healthy to me.

They do look good.

Dave is jealous.

I've got one I'm currently babying along.... I am hopeful.
But I don't want to hex myself.

 

[Colorfulreefaqu]

They look great. Keep up the pics!

 

[raythepilot]

No.
Color is genetic. Bleached or not bleached (golden brown) is due to the zooxanthelae population which is the the microbial we wanted to replace in a bleached anemone. The transplant will not alter the color but will give the bleached anemone new zooxanthelae which he does not have. This will brown him up. Healthy anemone will be able to produce the pigments that they naturally have.

I could be wrong but my research doesn't agree with this.

When I look at a BTA under the microscope it is obvious that they have at least two different symbiotic "algae" associated with them.

Symbiodinium species are the brownish single celled dinoflagellates that populated the slime layer on the inside surface of the anemone. In BTA's they give it the brownish color.

There are also zoochlorella species that live within the matrix of the epidermal cells. These vary in color giving the anemone its green to pink color.

It may be that the zoochlorellae associated with an anemone is genetically controlled but I would think not. My feeling is that it may be possible to kill off all the zoochlorellae associated with an anemone and repopulate it with a different strain.

 

[asudavew]

I could be wrong but my research doesn't agree with this.

When I look at a BTA under the microscope it is obvious that they have at least two different symbiotic "algae" associated with them.

Symbiodinium species are the brownish single celled dinoflagellates that populated the slime layer on the inside surface of the anemone. In BTA's they give it the brownish color.

There are also zoochlorella species that live within the matrix of the epidermal cells. These vary in color giving the anemone its green to pink color.

It may be that the zoochlorellae associated with an anemone is genetically controlled but I would think not. My feeling is that it may be possible to kill off all the zoochlorellae associated with an anemone and repopulate it with a different strain.

Probably a question for another thread... sorry Taylor.. so you think the color of an anemone could change by bleaching and feeding it a different "color" of zoochlorellae?

 

[Pinkskunk]

If there is a video of your full tank i will sit there and watch it