Journal of a CUT S. gigantea

[D-Nak]

is the nem at the same place all this time? has it been near a heater? that pic looks like my nem when it made contact with a heater.

It's been in the same place for 9+ months. I have no heaters in my tank -- they're in my sump.

 

[AD87]

How much were you feeding the gig and how often?

 

[D-Nak]

How much were you feeding the gig and how often?

I was direct feeding once a week, typically raw fish (salmon, sushi-grade tuna scraps) and/or PE mysis. I fed it small amounts each time -- a small pencil erase size piece of fish, or a small squirt of PE mysis. It ate very well and reacted instantly to feeding.

 

[AD87]

Doesn't sound like too much food to me. Do you have any butterfly or angel fish in the tank that could of nipped at the foot?

 

[OrionN]

I am sorry to hear about the demise of your anemone.

 

[taylor t]

Very sad to see. What's puzzling, is it seems to have grown in size, but never appears to have completely healed.

 

[nemoboy1]

It's always sad to see/hear a nem died.

 

[ClippersTown]

So with carpets, im guessing their internals never regenerate/heal up. As the nem gets bigger, the internals dont. The nem cant support itself anymore cause the internals havent been growing. All speculation, but thats what its sounding like to me.

 

[D-Nak]

So with carpets, im guessing their internals never regenerate/heal up. As the nem gets bigger, the internals dont. The nem cant support itself anymore cause the internals havent been growing. All speculation, but thats what its sounding like to me.

I think their internals do heal and grow, but they can't regenerate what they lost -- at least that's what happened (or didn't happen) with mine. Hindsight tells me that I shouldn't have fed it as much, even though I didn't feed it nearly as much as I've fed other gigs in the past. What we need to remember is that gigs, and all nems for that matter, don't have a brain. They cant think about that they're doing. If a tentacle senses food, it'll ingest it regardless of the condition, shape, or size. It doesn't know if it's good or bad or if it could possibly kill it. Thus, as owners, we need to think for the nem and make sure that we're not overfeeding or feeding something inappropriate.

 

[Jamie1210]

wow, just saw this thread ... so sorry to hear it died! I was totally thinking it was out of the woods too

 

[D-Nak]

wow, just saw this thread ... so sorry to hear it died! I was totally thinking it was out of the woods too

I honestly thought it was too. Perhaps it's why I wasn't careful with what I was feeding it, how often, and how much. It just seemed to grow and grow, and then... pop. Literally. It really does suck though, I liked it a lot, and it was the perfect size. My clowns are giving me the stink eye now, as they swim aimlessly around the tank.

 

[clownfish123321]

Wow i was about to mark this as a success until i saw the last

 

[clownfish123321]

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