Need help with placement of gigantea

[cook]

I have a purple carpet on hold until saturday. It has eaten at the lfs. Where should I put him. In the sand, on the rocks, or sand/rock transition. I am running 1 250 MH 6.5k and 1 400 MH 20k. They also have a nice red haddoni 12" or more. This is the biggest carpet I have ever seen.

 

[delphinus]

Sand/rock interface in a high current location, preferably even with currents coming from multiple directions.

 

[cook]

I have a red sea wavemaker with 2 maxi. That should be what it's looking for right? How high should the flow be?

 

[john rochon]

do you really want to try this anenome? there very very hard to keep. need TONs of flow and light. how old is your tank??
HADDONIS are a little easier.

 

[delphinus]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9651549#post9651549 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cook
I have a red sea wavemaker with 2 maxi. That should be what it's looking for right? How high should the flow be?

I use a Red Sea wavemaker as well, but with 4 powerheads in a 24x24x12 tank (2 are always on). Before I had my carpets in a 75g with 6 maxijet's on the wavemaker.

They basically can take as much current as you can throw at them, they really do better with a lot of current.

Johnny Rochon is correct though, they have a horrible track record of acclimatizing to life in captivity. I assume you know this ... but just in case ... just be wary that it seems to be as few as one in ten, maybe even worse, that makes the transition successfully.

Having said that, I have two, both for over two years now (one actually almost three), so it's not all gloom and doom. Wish I could share with you some secret, but there wasn't any. I got lucky. But I think having an established tank with good lighting and really good currents is I think a good start.

The fact that it has made it to a week and is eating at the store is hopefully a good sign.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9653066#post9653066 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by delphinus
I use a Red Sea wavemaker as well, but with 4 powerheads in a 24x24x12 tank (2 are always on). Before I had my carpets in a 75g with 6 maxijet's on the wavemaker.

They basically can take as much current as you can throw at them, they really do better with a lot of current.
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do you point your maxis at them or just near them ?

 

[delphinus]

Never directly at them (they'll just move), but near them. If you can place and aim the powerheads so that there is a convergence of flows nearby to the anemone's location, that is probably ideal.

I'd actually love to try something like a gyre tank for mine one day. Or at least a tank with a wavebox. (Hmmm ... slipping off to daydream land for a few minutes here .....)

 

[illcssd]

In a few months we will know how both a magnifica and gigantea like wavebox's.

 

[phender]

You will want to bounce the powerheads off the glass or each other.

Although the sand/rock interface is the conventional placement of these anemones, there have been a few people who have been very successful with them in the rock work, if the have a crevice for their foot and a place where they can spread out on top to the rocks. Don't rule out the rocks if the flow or light is better up there.

 

[cook]

I have a lot of light. I def want to try this anemone. This one has been in the store for 3 weeks and has a closed mouth. I think it is a good start.

 

[cook]

I picked him up yesterday. I cant't see the mouth b/c he folds too much. Still full. One question though, he has been pushed into the corner by the current and is only partly attached to a rock. I can see his foot wrapped around shells. Should I cut back on the current until he finds a spot or just let him go where he wants? By the way this one has a baby attached.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9678682#post9678682 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cook
I picked him up yesterday. I cant't see the mouth b/c he folds too much. Still full. One question though, he has been pushed into the corner by the current and is only partly attached to a rock. I can see his foot wrapped around shells. Should I cut back on the current until he finds a spot or just let him go where he wants? By the way this one has a baby attached.

where is the baby attached?

 

[cook]

He is about 2-3" across attached to the foot. It is clearly another anemone. I will try to get pics.

 

[delphinus]

I wouldn't worry about cutting back on current unless it seems like it's having trouble maintaining its position.

Looking forward to the pics

 

[cook]

Shouldn't the foot be wedged in somewhere. He is attached but only by the bottom. It also inflates very big. Is that a bad sign?

 

[delphinus]

Mine seemed to eventually seek out a crevasse to wedge in but the attachment was always just at the bottom. Unless I'm not understanding properly what you're trying to describe, I still think it's OK so far. (A picture might help ).

Inflating large, in and of itself, also doesn't sound like a warning sign to me. Although constant inflating/deflating is a sure sign of distress (yet may not be completely unheard of, in the first week or two, since it has to acclimate to new conditions and so on).

Good luck!

 

[cook]

No deflating yet, mouth was a little open today, I could see 2 little apendages there but no guts.