multicolor gigantea

[Gary Majchrzak]

however you say it, how about some purple gigantea verrucae

 

[shiftyfatdwarf]

looks sweet and healthy best of luck with that

 

[delphinus]

gigantea verrucae, califragelisticexpialidocious ..

Cool pic Gary.

Here's a tidbit, I heard once that S. gigantea was so named because at the time it was first discovered, there weren't that many anemone species described and it was the largest the biologists had seen at that time. Of course we now know that S. haddoni and S. mertensii are much larger, but they hadn't been "discovered" and well .. the name has stuck.

Don't know if it's true or not, but, makes for an amusing anecdote nonetheless (urban legend or otherwise).

 

[socalnative]

awsome!

 

[55semireef]

How often are you going to keep changing you avatar Gary?

 

[Slakker]

When he stops getting unreasonably awesome pictures of his gigantea, i guess.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

thanks for that tidbit, delphinus

 

[jpndave]

Wow, just beautiful anemone and pics! Something to aspire to.

 

[brtbrtlynn04]

amazing..i set a pic for my background as well..if you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for a thing like that?

 

[brtbrtlynn04]

amazing..i set a pic for my background as well..if you dont mind me asking how much did you pay for a thing like that?

 

[RandyO]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9322328#post9322328 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
however you say it, how about some purple gigantea verrucae

Oh no! Your anemone has purple spot disease.

Your in luck. I happen to be the only one able to cure this disease. Let me know when would be a good time to stop by take the anemone back to my lab.


Kidding aside, excellent specimen.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

salmon snack

 

[Zestay]

Re: 3 week update

Re: 3 week update

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9318970#post9318970 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak

what are those other fish aside the clowns?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Re: Re: 3 week update

Re: Re: 3 week update

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9460803#post9460803 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Zestay
what are those other fish aside the clowns?

four Anthias and one Cirrhilabrus wrasse

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9460523#post9460523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
salmon snack

Is it the picture or is your Gigantea losing that rainbowish color?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

it's the picture/lighting

 

[illcssd]

Have you tried feeding clams gary? My gigantea seems to love them, also watchman gobies, but thats a different story lol.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

what kind of clams? I've never fed clams to any of my anemones.
I feed frozen mysids, cyclops, fresh uncooked shrimp/prawns, krill, silversides and small pieces of other types of fresh fish from the market. I've tried squid- but all my anemones rejected it.

 

[illcssd]

They are called clams on the half shell. They are uncooked baby clams and they are put out by h2o life out of san diego. The shell is about the size of a quarter and the anemones i have love it. They also enrich the clams with phytoplankton, i dont know if that does anything but it says it does lol.
Just a fyi, all of my anemones love it.

austin

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I feed my anemones scallops on a regular basis, but I can't recall ever trying clams. I did feed some snow crab to my Haddon's, once... but only once!

Most host anemones will take any meaty seafood but I've seen a few exceptions every now and then. Thanks for the tip