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Just Reefin'
It's great to see so many Gigs not just surviving, but thriving on the boards here.. With having two that were acquired reasonably close to each other (time) I saw the recoveries almost in parellel. It got me to thinking, how did everyone else's recover.. Do they recover the same as a species, etc or all individually?
Purple Gig - Started out very nubby, almost completely bleached with a tiny hint of purple in the tentacle tips.. First the tentacles started to get longer, initially around the mouth, then outward.. Once the tentacles got to a nice length, the zoox started to come back, and now they are ALL brown zoox'd tentacles, shaggy, with a beautiful purple tip. The interesting thing is, there were a lot of bald rows, and several breaks in the rows of tentacles.. Now that it looks almost 100% recovered, those are starting to actually grow back.. Bald patching spots now have little baby tentacles coming back. This gig is thriving!
Green Gig - Took a little different of a path.. Started out non bleached at all and hasn't lost of gained color at ALL. Beautiful bright bright nuclear green color, with no visible brown zoox spots because the tentacles were SO small. For those of you that followed its journey, many thought it was a haddoni. As the recovery happened, tentacles started to SLOWLY, and I mean SLOWLY get longer... Like the purple, first around the mouth area and since it doubled in size post coming into my DT, there were a lot, lot, lot of bald spots, rows missing, etc. Immediately before tentacles got too long and made much progress there were baby tentacles sprouting everywhere. So unlike the purple, before they grew in length, new ones grew back and recovered.. So it took a bit of a different path. Now that som any have grown back, in the last week it actually looks like a real true gig when the current moves the tentacles around.
Maybe I'm nuts, but how did your gigs recover? Did you, or have you noticed a pattern of what appendage, or what part of the animal recovers first?
Purple Gig - Started out very nubby, almost completely bleached with a tiny hint of purple in the tentacle tips.. First the tentacles started to get longer, initially around the mouth, then outward.. Once the tentacles got to a nice length, the zoox started to come back, and now they are ALL brown zoox'd tentacles, shaggy, with a beautiful purple tip. The interesting thing is, there were a lot of bald rows, and several breaks in the rows of tentacles.. Now that it looks almost 100% recovered, those are starting to actually grow back.. Bald patching spots now have little baby tentacles coming back. This gig is thriving!
Green Gig - Took a little different of a path.. Started out non bleached at all and hasn't lost of gained color at ALL. Beautiful bright bright nuclear green color, with no visible brown zoox spots because the tentacles were SO small. For those of you that followed its journey, many thought it was a haddoni. As the recovery happened, tentacles started to SLOWLY, and I mean SLOWLY get longer... Like the purple, first around the mouth area and since it doubled in size post coming into my DT, there were a lot, lot, lot of bald spots, rows missing, etc. Immediately before tentacles got too long and made much progress there were baby tentacles sprouting everywhere. So unlike the purple, before they grew in length, new ones grew back and recovered.. So it took a bit of a different path. Now that som any have grown back, in the last week it actually looks like a real true gig when the current moves the tentacles around.
Maybe I'm nuts, but how did your gigs recover? Did you, or have you noticed a pattern of what appendage, or what part of the animal recovers first?
