Minh's Purple S. gigantea

[OrionN]

Mihn, im jealous of your camera skills. I don’t own a nice camera or any camera matter of fact.


I notice that the pics you took of your yellow mag seem to be more white with a hint of blue and the pics of the Gig seem to be more yellow/green. Any reason for that? Just curious.

Thanks

Thanks,
There is a different sometime I use flash and other times I take it with just the tank light. The flash tend to bring out truer color as judge by my eye. I use 10,000K MH so the picture without flash seem a little bluish. I often use Photoshop and just use auto color correction on the picture and try to get accurate color as seen by my eye on my monitor at the usual view angle for me. Your monitor setting or view angle can really change the color of the picture. The green tinted with the gig picture seem to be due to the algae growing on the surface bring out by the flash and light. The picture of the Magnifica above was taken without flash which make it look a little whiter than true color. With flash there are much more light and I ger better dept of field and also I can freeze the picture better. Two pictures below are a few seconds apart with different light

With flash

Without flash

 

[AD87]

Ok i gotcha. Your thread really makes me want to add a gig to my current shallow nem cube.

 

[OrionN]

I think everybody really getting tire of me update of this thread, so I try not to do this too often. But here he is(maybe she is) Friday PM when I got home from work. She continue to do well. On the column there are some whitish clumps that may be eggs. I did not observe these when she was smaller and first under my care. I cannot take pictures of these clumps easy. If I am able to show them on pictures, I will post them later.

https://www.opendrive.com/files/OV8zMTA2MTE0X1dTa2hHXzc3ZGE/PurGigan2012091401.jpeg

 

[AD87]

Link works but the pic isnt coming through


Never tired of updates! Haha

 

[OrionN]

Link works but the pic isnt coming through


Never tired of updates! Haha

Sorry the link does not work but here is the picture

 

[worm5406]

Ohhh please... it is a source of motivation...

To see what something else is doing outside my world...

Besides you never invite us over to look at it and you dont give us the key to come in late at night wondering what it is doing.

If someone tires of it they will just skip the thread or unfollow/unsubscribe the post.

 

[Overboard]

Really nice to see your success with this type of anemone. Keep those updates coming!

 

[OrionN]

Thanks.
Here is the picture this evening just right before the light turn out. He is growing wast and now is about 12-14 inches in a 30 g tank. I need to get him into my permanent tank soon.

 

[sjwitt]

Just beautiful!

 

[Gig 'em]

I visited Aquarium Masters the last time I was in Corpus on business to check out the place you got your anemone and honestly I was pretty disgusted at the quality of the place. It seemed like half the fish in their tanks were dead and the employees were happily chatting with their friends at the front of the store while they really should have been fishing out the dead and diseased fish from their tanks. I don't know if your anemone was a fluke from them or what, but I don't ever want to go there again. Hopefully I just came on a bad day

 

[OrionN]

I visited Aquarium Masters the last time I was in Corpus on business to check out the place you got your anemone ....

They got some really nice Haddoni right now.

You must got them on a bad day after a bad fish shipment. I don't often see sick fish at their store. They don't hook their tank together in a system but have them individualized tank. That is how they control disease. Most of the time they separate the fish correctly and sometime they are overcrowded IMO.

They have no employee, only the two owners. They have two young kids elementary age and preschool that need busing around. They also have a maintenance business and another store down in the Rio Grande Valley (they have employee there I think)

They do have a practice that I don't like too much. On the day of the shipment, they sell the fish 25% off in the bag. If the fish is in distress on arrival, then they release it into the tank, otherwise they keep it in the bag until store close that day. Same with the other animals. This seem to work for them as it really attract reefers in this area to come into the store on shipment day.

All in all, I think they are very honest, hard working couple who really know about fish and take reasonable care of their fish and trying to make a living at it.

 

[OrionN]

I got an opportunity to obtained another Gigantea and bought one home today. This is another anemone that direct shipped from Indonesia 5/1/2012 to Aquarium Masters here in Corpus Christi. The owner keep it at his house since 5/1/2012.

I was told that it was completely bleached on arrival but have since recovered some of its zooxanthellae. It have some light green, yellow base color with area of bleached and some area of brown with zooxanthellae. I first seen this anemone about last week of August when I choose my purple Gigantea to purchase. Yesterday, it sill doing well so I decided to buy it.

Here are two pictures of it a few hours after I got it into my tank, cram between two rock, it have attached to one of the rock. Sorry that the glass is dirty and the water still cloudy form me mucking up the tank.

 

[Reef1589]

Luckyyyyy! im desperatly hoping my Gig honey whole and get me a vibrant green on in, thats what ive been shooting for, but they havnt had any lucky obtaining any s. gig's at all lately

 

[OrionN]

I got better picture of my yellow Gigantea (or more likely brown when he is healthy). My clowns already make him their home.
This tank is a 65 g tank with two Malu, three BTA and 3 Maxi S. tapetum and countless mini S. tapetum. Three clams and a bunch of Acropora, Montipora and Xenia. Also a plate coral and frogspawn in this tank also. This 65 g reef is lighted with 2X250 W DE MH 10000K PulseRight bulbs (cheap Chinese bulbs) about 2.5 years old bulbs

I removed a bunch of over grown Acropora to clear up a space in the middle of the tank for him. He seem to be much healthier than my purple Gigantea when I first got him (the purple). Here are the pictures today. He attached to a concrete rock that have been in my sump for ever (4+ years). It is the only smooth surface rock that I have that is aphasia free at this time. The first picture was with no flash and the second one with flash.

 

[Jamie1210]

glad to see your purple gig's doing really well!

is the new gigantea also in the same 30 gallon tank as the purple? Are you concerned about disease/infection? please be careful and take it easy ... i still don't have the nerve to add a 2nd gig to my current tank! haha

 

[OrionN]

No the new Gig is in a separate tank. He have been in captivity for almost 5 months and have no problem so it is unlikely that he carry any disease. How ever the 30 g is too small for the two Gig. It is too small for the purple Gig as is, and will need to get him to a larger tank soon.

 

[D-Nak]

glad to see your purple gig's doing really well!

is the new gigantea also in the same 30 gallon tank as the purple? Are you concerned about disease/infection? please be careful and take it easy ... i still don't have the nerve to add a 2nd gig to my current tank! haha

I don't know if I want to add a second gig to my tank either. Risk is just too high, unless I can find an established one. Even then, I've read posts regarding gigs just not doing well together (Our resident chemist Holmes-Farley comes to mind) where one does well and one not-so-good. The hypothesis is usually a turf war and that two are either both males or females.

No the new Gig is in a separate tank. He have been in captivity for almost 5 months and have no problem so it is unlikely that he carry any disease. How ever the 30 g is too small for the two Gig. It is too small for the purple Gig as is, and will need to get him to a larger tank soon.

Sounds like it's time for a tank upgrade! 240 gallon cube maybe? That's what I'm hoping to get for my gig. ;-)

 

[Winwood]

Wow! Your purple one is getting big! Good luck on the new one!

 

[OrionN]

I moved the rock a little to expose the anemone to more light. Mainly turn to rock to the side a little. The rock is 1/2 bury into the sand so turning it was easy. I feed the yellow Gigantea some salmon today, he ate it but a little slow. I have to protect him from having the clowns stealing the food. The gigantic Crocea I have had for 10+ years from ORA via LFS here in Corpus. Got him when he was just over 1 inch long.
The two pictures below on before and one after I fed him.

My purple Gigantea is doing really well. I have not feed him for a while because he is too big for the tank, and I cannot move him to his permanent home yet. Picture today

 

[schprock]

Very nice Minh.
Good feeling of success in keeping a gigantea for more than 2 weeks. So what is your main tank going to be? Is it going to be up end of this year? I will be back home then and can bring some sps for you if the tank is up.