Gigantea foot tears help...

3-24-2017, morning after water change and 3rd dose of cipro and the carpets appear to be doing well. The gig obviously needs to still recover from arriving bleached, however, with lights out it is appearing more and more yellow. Probably will go from yellow to tan over time. Still doing my best to get these guys healthy and keeping fingers crossed.
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3-24-2017, 100% water change, carefully swapped the nems back into the 20 gallon, and added 4th dose of cipro.
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Swayze27 said:
Am I wasting my time and effort or can gigantea recover from foot tears?
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Not wasting time at all. They most definitely can heal, I've read several others having the same experience. I've ripped my gigs several times over the years. They always healed no problem, but I would never try shipping one that was ripped. A few of my gigs came cut in half, literally half an anemone. Today they are all full anemones. No evidence looking at them would ever be able to tell they had ever been cut. No scar, mouth centered like normal gigs (if such a thing).


Now gigs are very different from LTA. I've never seen or read anyone have a LTA rip foot recover. There may be a situation LTA recovered rip foot, I've never read or seen it, but many LTA rip foot die threads are out there. I've read and experienced gigs recover rip foot plenty.
 
Was sold to me as tan but we shall see. Seems to be getting more and more yellow as time goes by. What do you think of the pics as far as health goes. They have for the most part remained inflated with closed mouths but do contort and make crazy shapes from time to time, lol. Definitely will continue treatment for a minimum of 7 days.
 
Swayze27 said:
Was sold to me as tan but we shall see. Seems to be getting more and more yellow as time goes by. What do you think of the pics as far as health goes. They have for the most part remained inflated with closed mouths but do contort and make crazy shapes from time to time, lol. Definitely will continue treatment for a minimum of 7 days.
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As long as it NEVER deflates, you should be headed in the right direction. Looks good to me so far. Crazy (inflated) shapes are ok, deflated pancake is not. A deflate most often means a problem. #1 GOAL, NO DEFLATES. To me, it looks like you've got yourself the coveted (bleached) green gig lol. Give that thing 2000+ par, (AFTER months of recovery, not right away) it should turn yellow. Give it crazy random flow - with rests, you just might be super happy with tent length too.
 
Today is day 5 of treatment, both nems still seem to be doing good. No deflating since day 2 however the do seem to be shrinking a little. The gig is making odd shapes but not deflating and mouth is remaining tightly closed
 
Anemone can shrink a little especially at night. They should be OK as long as the get better from the day before.
 
Today is the morning after the 5 dose of Cipro. Nems stayed inflated throught the night, so this makes at minimum 3 days straight without either nem deflating. Although I have had no issues with having the nems in the same tank during treatment, I did pick up another 10 gallon tank and an extra heater and with today's water change I will put them both in there own 10 gallon tank for the remainder of the treatment. I will continue to treat at least through day 7.
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Woke up this morning to some cloudy water in the gigs tank and he looked deflated. Foot was completely attached and mouth looked healthy and closed tight. I wasn't due for a water change until this afternoon but I went ahead and did 100% because of water quality. He is perking back up. Should I count this as a deflate or considering the foot attached and tight mouth is it just a "purge". I still plan on treating until Wednesday.
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Also there has been no discharge (black pellets, etc.)in a while, mostly just a little mucus/shedding around the base from time to time.
 
Swayze27 said:
Also there has been no discharge (black pellets, etc.)in a while, mostly just a little mucus/shedding around the base from time to time.
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Doesn't look good in that pic. The cloudy water isn't a great sign since it had not even been close to 24 hrs yet. It shouldn't look like that at any point if it was totally healthy. I'd definitely treat until at least wednesday if not longer and then leave it in he qt tank without cipro for a few days to make sure it's ok before it goes to the display.
 
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2 hrs after last pic, seems to be perking back up but not where I like him to be. Foot and mouth have always looked good. When I get home I'm gonna double the water volume on him. He was doing better in the 20 gallon tank with 10 gallon water. I may have over medicated yesterday as well. Stick to the protocol :headwally:
 
Swayze27 said:
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2 hrs after last pic, seems to be perking back up but not where I like him to be. Foot and mouth have always looked good. When I get home I'm gonna double the water volume on him. He was doing better in the 20 gallon tank with 10 gallon water. I may have over medicated yesterday as well. Stick to the protocol :headwally:
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I have never seen a gigs mouth puckered like that. I haven't seen a ton of gigs though. Strange, it looks like a Magnificas mouth. Can you get a close up pic of the anemone?
 
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