How is my new gigantea doing?

[Pittsburgh]

Ordered it from live aquaria last week. Acclimated it for a couple of hours then put in DT with Mh lights off for another couple of hours. It's been in the tank for a week now.

For the first three days it had it's mouth open but not really gaping too much. It stays inflated most of the time except evenings when the lights go out. I started feeding him some shrimp for the past couple of days, he seems to be eating well. He is about 14'' fully inflated. About 9''-10'' in this picture.

How does he look to you guys?

 

[Reef1589]

Imo looks like he is acclimating well...
Is his mouth still open?

All anemones close up a littlr bit at night so dont worry too much bout that unless he is shrivled up ...gaping mouth ect..ect..

Look like there are some bleached spots to..im on my phone hard to tell

But looks good! should color up nicely

 

[Pittsburgh]

The mouth opens up at least once a day but usually closes up in the evening. For the past couple of days the mouth would stay mostly closed and opens up a little every once in a while. Not sure about bleaching, will have to take a closer look tonight. I thought that those lighter spots were either because those are the areas where it's either not as inflated or otherwise inflated more than usual. Could be wrong though.

Here's a macro shot to help see the typical coloration so far:

 

[OrionN]

It is partial bleached in a few area. These are no problem, they will color up in no time (2-3 weeks). It's look like it is doing well. A long as it does not deflates, you are in good shape. Good luck with him. Don't for get to show him off in the Gigantea show off thread

 

[Pittsburgh]

Yeah, I could definitely see the bleached off spots. They are starting to subside now. The nem decided to move himself close to the corner of the tank and attached to the glass wall there. The mouth is now completely closed and he is eating. He is not an agressive eater at all. I have to guard his food from the fish until he takes it, up to 5 minutes. My clown keeps ignoring him for now, so hand feeding is necessary.

More pictures to come later tonight.

 

[D-Nak]

I have a friend who also purchased a gig from LA and his is doing fine. I think this particular color morph fares the best out of the gigs. Could be the collection location and better handling process from export to import to LA.

In terms of eating, I have never seen a gig that is a voracious eater -- nothing like haddoni I have seen which smother the food and often close over on itself. Gigs tend to wrap their tentacles around the food and slowly transfer it to their mouths, using their oral disk to slowly guide it into place. They do close over the food (the clowns will get used to this) but noting quick like a venus fly trap.

I think your gig will be fine. It's able to hold itself up on its column which is a good sign. Typical sick gigs look very flat and have almost a dome shape. Yours has the folds of a healthy gig. Based on the length of the tentacles I would say it's still acclimating, but give it a couple more weeks and I think it'll look like any other healthy gig.

Good luck!

 

[Pittsburgh]

Thanks, D-Nak. Yesterdays feeding was much like you said: the food ended up 2-3'' from his mouth, then slowly transferred by tentacles closer and eventually into the mouth.

Water temperature went up two degrees as it got warmer outside. He didn't like it too much, but nothing too serious. He is currently in the corner of the tank attached to the glass, there isn't much flow in that corner so I expect him to start moving soon unless I fix it. Thinking of directing the return closer to that corner and see what happens.

Didn't have time to take good pictures last night, maybe tonight.

 

[Pittsburgh]

It has been over three weeks now. The nem is still doing really good, eating more actively and in general seems to be happy being in the corner of the tank attached to glass. My clown keeps ignoring him, but many fish tend to pick stuff up from his surface when he is fully open, especially right after feeding.

He stays fully open all day, bleach spots seem to be improving slowly.
I'm going to switch his feeding schedule to every other day now. The diet primarily includes chunks of large raw shrimp from grocery store.

 

[SomeDude12]

I agree, that there are area's that are lacking zooxanthellae. Which is very common to occur during shipping. However, with proper feedings, you should see a recovery in no time. Other than that, it appears to be adapting well.