Gigantea Carpet Anemone, weird behavior?

[Kyle10181]

I've recently bought a new Gigantea Carpet anemone, after watching it for a couple days at the LFS and stopping in frequently. Finally I decided to bring it home. It was fully inflated and remained fully inflated for the whole hour drive home and during the whole acclimation process. It's now been in the tank for around 5 hours, and I noticed it started to eject some weird fluid from its mouth that almost looked like a cloud of smoke. I'm just wondering if this is normal behavior for a Gigantea that is acclimating to its new tank environment?

I've attached a video of the behavior below. I also believe the anemone to be a bit bleached, but figure that this should not be enough of an issue for it to not be able to survive and bounce back as it was remaining inflated for such long periods of time; as i'm well aware that a constantly inflating and deflating Gigantea is one that should be avoided.

Any second opinions and advice is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[OrionN]

It is a male Gigantea and have stressed induced spawn.

 

[phender]

What Minh said ^

 

[Kyle10181]

Just to clarify, this is nothing I should be too overly worried about at this stage and he should settle in fairly well?

I have for a few days prior to purchasing this fella, looked at all 3 Gigantea the store had (Actually have the second on hold still, a blue carpet), and they were all incredibly healthy looking; showing full inflated-ness right after shipping and any time I stopped by to observe. They all had tightly closed mouths and were very sticky too so I'm confident that I've taken all precautions in ensuring a healthy specimen. However, I'm still very worried having read on their miserable survival rates.

Honestly just wondering if this is essentially a pretty normal process for acclimating to the new tank, since I've read so many horror stories about gigantea's survival rate, or whether this is reason enough to be concerned and question purchasing the second as well.

 

[ClownNut]

just check/clean skimmer. last time a good friend's haddon carpets spawn in tank, skimmer overflow about 5 gallons water on his carpet.

 

[phender]

Sorry, we didn't clarify. Releasing sperm is not a bad thing. Its not like they spawn and die like salmon or octopus. It just sometimes happens when an anemone changes its environment (are stressed).