need a little help with S.Gigantea

[ClownNut]

i got a blue S.Gigantea about a month now. i kept BTA, LTA, S.Haddon and H.magnifica before. this is a first time i deal with S.Gigantea.
the carpet is about 3.5-4" fully open, when the light off about 2-2.5".
the mouth was open since day one, about size of dime.

Light: AI Nano (30W60B60RB)
flow: it got enough.
Alk:120PPM (Hanna)
Ca:360PPM(Hanna)(adjusting now, the sps were take ca out faster than i thought.)
Mg:1400PPM Salifert
PO4: 0.04PPM (Hanna)
NO3: 1 or lower Salifert
tank is about 1.5 years old mix reef with mostly sps.

it eats well(mysis), good color, sticky/firm tentacles and firmly attach. it's in the same area as the flame tip bta. flow is going from the carpet and toward the flame tip then move to return area. it never turn inside out. if i stop the flow i can see the tentacles are moving by itself.
the anemone's health dont seem move forward or fall backward...
well, a few of friends that keep S.Gigantea told me, it will slowly close back up after sometime. i just want to see if anyone else have other suggestions. i will prefer not to do antibiotic treatment if i dont have to.
thanks for the input.

 

[OrionN]

I have keep quite a few anemones and right now I have 2 Gigantea. both of my Gigantea took a long time to close their mouth. I have to remove my clowns because they were digging into the mouth of the gigantea. After several month, the mouth is completly close. If you look up my thread on my gigantea, I also was very worry about he open mouth.
Good luck. Pictures please

 

[Reef1589]

on a few of my s. gigs (i got 6) ... ive had it where they had the mouth open for a couple months (dime size or smaller.. ) , but were always firm looking.. sticky, ate well.. ect..ect.. i honestly think its just a S. Gig thing..

even now the s. gig ive had the longest almost 8 months... his mout will open from time to time..

and in my opinion there are two different kinds of mouthings being open, you can have a mouth be open and still look firm, or a mouth be open and look loose... /gaping..

IMO / IME... a open mouth that has firmness to it.. (dime size) is not bad sign, unless it progresses from there and gets worse... ive only been dealing with anemone's for 2 years, so im sure some of the older..and people whove kept em longer will chime in..

 

[ClownNut]

i will post pictures tomorrow. i am also changing the AI nano to radion the next few days as well. thanks for the input.

 

[nemoboy1]

i got a blue S.Gigantea about a month now. i kept BTA, LTA, S.Haddon and H.magnifica before. this is a first time i deal with S.Gigantea.
the carpet is about 3.5-4" fully open, when the light off about 2-2.5".
the mouth was open since day one, about size of dime.

Light: AI Nano (30W60B60RB)
flow: it got enough.
Alk:120PPM (Hanna)
Ca:360PPM(Hanna)(adjusting now, the sps were take ca out faster than i thought.)
Mg:1400PPM Salifert
PO4: 0.04PPM (Hanna)
NO3: 1 or lower Salifert
tank is about 1.5 years old mix reef with mostly sps.

it eats well(mysis), good color, sticky/firm tentacles and firmly attach. it's in the same area as the flame tip bta. flow is going from the carpet and toward the flame tip then move to return area. it never turn inside out. if i stop the flow i can see the tentacles are moving by itself.
the anemone's health dont seem move forward or fall backward...
well, a few of friends that keep S.Gigantea told me, it will slowly close back up after sometime. i just want to see if anyone else have other suggestions. i will prefer not to do antibiotic treatment if i dont have to.
thanks for the input.

Li(clownnut)
Agreed... My healthy green gig opens his mouth now n then about dime size or smaller. Not really sure why they do this... My purple gig is coming along with small gaping mouth. As time goes by I'm hoping he closes. Pretty much the same ordeal as your blue gig. Good luck

 

[ClownNut]

cant take a picture of it's mouth, if i touch it with turkey baster, it pulls closer together.

 

[stickleback]

IMO if a gigs feeding, then its a very good sign. It looks okay in the pic.

Tenticles could be longer.

What sort of flow is it receiving?

 

[ClownNut]

it's in my sump's frag tank section. i run laguna 2900 as return, it's in an area about 18X14 all that flow run through that small an area.

 

[stickleback]

I'm not familiar with that pump, but to me it sounds like its not getting a lot of flow. The fact that its in a tub may also shield it from the flow.
Gigs love flow, the more random the better.
Try a powerhead in there. You may find the tentacles will lengthen and the mouth will close.