My new score-two blue gigs.

[Pinkskunk]

well for us onlookers we dont see what you see at home, so please update with pics :lolspin:

I understand what you're saying, but disagree. After consulting with Minh, unless the Gig shows some sort of signs that it is sick I am not going to treat it just because. It will stress the animal out more moving to QT, medicating, and bringing it back just because. It has not deflated even once since yesterday. Overnight it stayed it size it is now minus maybe 10% which is normal, and is responding beautifully. There has been zero expelling is black waste, or any waste for that matter.

If the Gig shows signs that it needs treatment, I will treat it otherwise I'm not going to do it just to do it. Think about it.. Doctors don't prescribe cold medication if one isn't sick, it just doesn't make sense.

Appreciate your thoughts, and will update my thread. Like I said, cipro is ordered, and if he needs help, I will be here to help otherwise he just might be strong enough to do it on his own. I have the luxury of working at home, so I am sitting in front of the tank from 8 - 5.... Trust me, I'm watching like a hawk should he need help.

 

[xtlosx]

well for us onlookers we dont see what you see at home, so please update with pics :lolspin:

No problemo, I have a seperate thread in this forum... I actually just loaded it with pictures... let me know what you think.

 

[kris4647]

So you are saying they are healthy looking Gigantae? Not bleached. Not emitting the material we guess may be zoo.

And as such QT isn't beneficial in your case.

I sincerely wish you luck.

 

[xtlosx]

So you are saying they are healthy looking Gigantae? Not bleached. Not emitting the material we guess may be zoo.

And as such QT isn't beneficial in your case.

I sincerely wish you luck.

I did not say that. I'm telling you in my case the Gig is not spewing anything from its mouth, hasn't deflated once, and hasn't given me any reason to suspect (thus far) that is has a bacterial infiection.

Is my Gig bleached? Absolutely. It's tentacles are more like a Haddoni's than a Gig right. Is that reason alone to medicate it? Absolutely not. I've spoken to Minh about it and working through his guidance. Like I said, I'm not medicating this animal just because. Thanks, this isn't my thread and I'm not hijacking it trying to explain my rationale to you.

 

[kris4647]

Dude you responded to my evaluation of the op's nems with your own which is just weird. You are posting all this info on an animal you have had a day.

I told you only that qt is the way to go.

If doctors got patients that died 80% of the time ill bet they'd perscribe something.

To the op I'm sorry I misidentified this person with you. Please see

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2258130

I wish you luck.

 

[xtlosx]

Dude you responded to my evaluation of the op's nems with your own which is just weird. You are posting all this info on an animal you have had a day.

I told you only that qt is the way to go.

If doctors got patients that died 80% of the time ill bet they'd perscribe something.

To the op I'm sorry I misidentified this person with you. Please see

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2258130

I wish you luck.

I have studied that post, as well as just about every single one on here one after another. I'm being cautiously optimistic, and when it shows signs that it needs treatment, I will be ready. Thanks for your comments.

 

[ptr13]

2/4/13 pics

 

[kretzkiller]

I did not say that. I'm telling you in my case the Gig is not spewing anything from its mouth, hasn't deflated once, and hasn't given me any reason to suspect (thus far) that is has a bacterial infiection.

Is my Gig bleached? Absolutely. It's tentacles are more like a Haddoni's than a Gig right. Is that reason alone to medicate it? Absolutely not. I've spoken to Minh about it and working through his guidance. Like I said, I'm not medicating this animal just because. Thanks, this isn't my thread and I'm not hijacking it trying to explain my rationale to you.

I have studied that post, as well as just about every single one on here one after another. I'm being cautiously optimistic, and when it shows signs that it needs treatment, I will be ready. Thanks for your comments.

You're still replying to this thread like its your own...

 

[dja1980]

I'm looking forward to watching progress on this one!

 

[ptr13]

So far so good, will post more pics tomorrw.

 

[xtlosx]

So far so good, will post more pics tomorrw.

Looking forward to it! Glad to hear they are doing well..

 

[ptr13]

2/7/13 pics of gigs.

 

[ChipE]

A lot of people jump the gun on treating. If its not 100% perfect people completely freak out and blindly treat it.
Your brand new anemone in a brand new tank doesn't look perfect? Sounds normal to me...
Unless it looks horrible and you can identify what it may have, leave it alone.

 

[xtlosx]

A lot of people jump the gun on treating. If its not 100% perfect people completely freak out and blindly treat it.
Your brand new anemone in a brand new tank doesn't look perfect? Sounds normal to me...
Unless it looks horrible and you can identify what it may have, leave it alone.

+1 Peter, they look good. Thanks for the updates... allows me to compare what I'm seeing over here!

 

[ptr13]

so far so good Tom, just kept up with water changes and the rest takes care of itself but I do have cipro, received it today if something goes wrong. It is shading itself from the LEDs for some reason, maybe it is a bit too bright but it is recovering slowly. We will compare notes Tom, your nem is beautiful and wish my nem was more photogenic ha ha!!

 

[xtlosx]

so far so good Tom, just kept up with water changes and the rest takes care of itself but I do have cipro, received it today if something goes wrong. It is shading itself from the LEDs for some reason, maybe it is a bit too bright but it is recovering slowly. We will compare notes Tom, your nem is beautiful and wish my nem was more photogenic ha ha!!

It's all good! We are lucky enough to find some locally that hopefully do not need any medication. Mine is basking directly under a Radion fixture and getting spread from the one in the middle, so really a lot of light...

What LEDs are you running? I run my Radions with a shallow reef profile, on natural mode. Wonder if that has anything to do with the good progress so far?

 

[ptr13]

I have reefledlights and rapidled over it with 60 LED in one fixture and 12 on the other for high noon blast, xpgs, xpe. I might just turn the rock around to see if it stays, for some reason it is trying to get close to the clowns which are in the neighboring btas.

 

[ptr13]

2/9/13 updates, pics while feeding and seem responsive to swallow a whole silversides, he left out the head on the left side for some reason

 

[D-Nak]

Please don't feed your nems silversides. There are far better options available, and I'd hate to see you lose a nem from a bad silverside.Keep the food size down -- just feed small particles -- until your nem has time to fully acclimate and gain some zoox back. The smaller the particle the better at this point, since the nem doesn't have to work as hard to digest it. It's already working on building back up its zoox population, there's no need to compound the issue.

 

[xtlosx]

Please don't feed your nems silversides. There are far better options available, and I'd hate to see you lose a nem from a bad silverside.Keep the food size down -- just feed small particles -- until your nem has time to fully acclimate and gain some zoox back. The smaller the particle the better at this point, since the nem doesn't have to work as hard to digest it. It's already working on building back up its zoox population, there's no need to compound the issue.

+1 to that... I had a RBTA that started going downhill when I fed even half a silverside... I'm convinced the bones, and the entire meal just isn't fit for nems. I've heard many a bad stories with silversides. I have an entire package sitting in the freezer unused because of my last experience.

D-Nak, thoughts on cod filets once the Gigs get healthy?