How important is water flow to S. gigantea?

[ThRoewer]

Agree with ThRoewer.
Nice looking anemones.

This is one of a video of my anemones. I find my anemones seem to do better with more flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Ib7f4zG_c&feature=youtu.be

I feel my giganteas look like they prefer a milder flow.

BTW, do you have your giganteas sitting inside rock crevices or on flat surfaces?
My feeling is that they actually prefer to sit at a rock-sand or rock-rubble boundary with their foot on the rock below the sand/rubble.

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[hottuna]

Agree with ThRoewer.
Nice looking anemones.

This is one of a video of my anemones. I find my anemones seem to do better with more flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Ib7f4zG_c&feature=youtu.be

I've seen that video before as well as another one of your vids where it looks like the gigs are holding on for dear life. you must have great water in the town you live in or a deep well drawing from a good aquifer...

 

[hottuna]

You can save yourself a lot of headaches by just uploading the video to Youtube and then adding the 'embedded' link here. Just make sure to set the video's privacy to 'public' or 'unlisted'.

BTW, how did you get the percula and bicinctus to get along with each other?

After playing with clown pairs for the past 40 yrs I've found- They either do or they don't -this trio worked. other times I've tried it it was a death wish. Pink skunks are docile -so i've mixed them with percs successfully in the past...introduced the perc when he was very small (tiny) and it all worked out so far...when he sexually matures -we'll see what happens....

 

[ThRoewer]

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After playing with clown pairs for the past 40 yrs I've found- They either do or they don't -this trio worked. other times I've tried it it was a death wish. Pink skunks are docile -so i've mixed them with percs successfully in the past...introduced the perc when he was very small (tiny) and it all worked out so far...when he sexually matures -we'll see what happens....

OK, so that percula is just a single one flying under the radar...
I'm kind of contemplating if I could put two pairs into one tank as long as each has a different host anemone the other isn't found in in the wild. Like Maroons (BTA) and percula (gigantea). But in the confined space of a 40B that might end ugly in any case...

 

[OrionN]

I feel my giganteas look like they prefer a milder flow.

BTW, do you have your giganteas sitting inside rock crevices or on flat surfaces?
My feeling is that they actually prefer to sit at a rock-sand or rock-rubble boundary with their foot on the rock below the sand/rubble.

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My Gigantea are all over the place. They tend to hide their foot in a crevice. If the rock is too smooth they tend to retreated their foot to the sand crevice between the rock and sand. Otherwise they tend to stay in a crack or in a crevice between two rock, or in the crack of a montipora cap crevice. They do not have their foot exposed like Magnifica IME.

I had a Ocellaris trio and a Pink Skunk pair in my 450 with several Magnifica in the past. Early 2000 time frame. Two mature pairs but relatively docile pair in a huge tank with separate hosts

 

[ThRoewer]

My Gigantea are all over the place. They tend to hide their foot in a crevice. If the rock is too smooth they tend to retreated their foot to the sand crevice between the rock and sand. Otherwise they tend to stay in a crack or in a crevice between two rock, or in the crack of a montipora cap crevice. They do not have their foot exposed like Magnifica IME.

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My big purple one has its foot on a relatively flat rock for several years.

 

[ThRoewer]

Video of my purple gigantea

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[hottuna]

Video of my purple gigantea

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Normal, Natural looking flow...nice !!!

 

[OrionN]

Looks good. He seem completely recovered.