New blue gig

[ThRoewer]

Last dose!
It seems to be doing good enough to look for a better spot to burry its foot. Right before water change it marched off the dish and started crawling on the glass bottom. I placed it back on the dish and added a flowerpot shard to give it an edge to put its foot in. Just to be safe I also added gravel to the tank bottom so it may be easier to remove it later.

As soon as the antibiotic is out of the tank I may add one of my anemone crabs to help keep its foot clean.

 

[ThRoewer]

Treatment is done and it is looking good :bounce3:

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Ya, it looks Great :thumbsup: Love the color too!

 

[Jrsdaddy]

It's a beauty! Congrats

 

[ThRoewer]

Still doing well and not moving.
I didn't do another water change but added a few tigger pods. At night I saw it's mouth a bit open but think it just caught and ate some pods.

I need to rig my old cube so that I can connect it via an overflow box (going to build one myself) to the 40 breeder that will be the sump of my new tank.
As soon as that is done I may transfer the gig and my first percula pair into the 40B to give it a more stable environment.
I will also slowly transfer all the corals down there. Only the other fish will remain in the cube (too risky with the gig at that point).
The idea is to get the current system expanded and established to the sump tank an then, later when the new big tank comes to that one. Hopefully this will avoid losses on corals and fish.

 

[RJT]

Really glad he made it.

This is a great thread, hopefully it will give hope and guidance to others.

 

[ThRoewer]

It is still looking good but last night it had its mouth a bit open and it looked like it was about to expel e pellet of zoox.
Is that normal? I have it straight below a 100W equivalent Daylight LED bulb and it shows no sign of bleaching, rather the opposite: it's getting darker.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

It is still looking good but last night it had its mouth a bit open and it looked like it was about to expel e pellet of zoox.
Is that normal? I have it straight below a 100W equivalent Daylight LED bulb and it shows no sign of bleaching, rather the opposite: it's getting darker.

Tough to say to be honest. Has it been moving even a little bit? I've noticed that some gigs will have a mouth slightly open when they are changing position or moving around.

 

[ThRoewer]

No movement, it seems to be happy where it is. Also, the mouth isn't open all the time.
My guess was that it had to get rid of some surplus zoox.

 

[ThRoewer]

Today I moved the purple gig into the sump of my 18" cube because I needed the QT for a new purple gig.

Before that I put it for a moment into the 18" cube to see how my first percula pair reacted to it.
These are the guys that ignored any other anemone I tried before: BTA, malu, crispa.

But this time it only took a few minutes until they were in the anemone. So I moved them all together into the sump:

BTW: this sump is with 40 gallon almost two times the size of the current tank :lol2:

 

[ThRoewer]

Today I noticed that it has a cluster of 3 clearly orange/green tentacles. Other tentacles more towards the mouth also show a green shade.
Has anybody ever had it that a colored gig had a second color or even changed color (aside from bleaching related issues of course)?

 

[D-Nak]

Today I noticed that it has a cluster of 3 clearly orange/green tentacles. Other tentacles more towards the mouth also show a green shade.
Has anybody ever had it that a colored gig had a second color or even changed color (aside from bleaching related issues of course)?

Yes -- I had a purple gig that had a lighter center color. Unfortunately, I only had it a few months. It slowly shrank then deflated and never recovered despite my attempts to treat it.

The different center color shows up better under heavy blue light:

 

[ThRoewer]

Last Saturday I finally got a blue gig. At the store it was together with two very sick looking purple gigs and it also had a bit of an open mouth so I started treatment right away that night. Since then It expelled some zoox pellets.

This is how it looked tonight:

It is also time for an update on the older purple gigs:

The first is doing excellent and has grown substantially - the pictures below show it at about 60%-70% of it's maximal size - it just digested another turbo snail:

The second bleached a bit but is otherwise doing fine:

My first brown-green gig, despite (or because) being a bit neglected, has by now also colored back up:

It's still in the 10 gallon tank. For about 3 months I didn't du much maintenance and only one water change. The tank was completely overgrown with caulerpa and the gig had gone hiding under a rock, only to peak out a bit during the day, so I wasn't really able to feed the it very well.
When I finally cleaned up the tank I found it smaller but colored up. I started again feeding it well daily and it seems to be very hungry - at least it is super sticky (my first purple gig that looks the best is actually the least sticky).
I still need to find a way to get rid of the cyano bacteria...

 

[ThRoewer]

Sick again?

Sick again?

I'm afraid my first purple gig got sick again. I literally watched it deflate tonight. I didn't add any other anemones, and all my other gigs seem healthy.

The only possible path I could imagine would be when I moved rocks from my 42 gallon tank over to the 100 gallon where the gig is in now. The 42 gallon contains only malus. The malus deflate and inflate with the light but have no gaping mouth.

This rock move was December 12th.

This was the gig December 19th, still in the 40B (sump of 100 gallon tank):

January 30th , a week after the move to the 100 gallon tank:

This was it tonight (February 3rd):

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Is it just unhappy or is it sick again?

 

[OrionN]

I think your contracted a little but does not appears sick. If this is a one time event, I would not worry about it too much especially if you recently fed him. If he contracted like this again the next day, then he need to be isolated and treat. As is, if you wish, and if you have the room, you may want to isolate him, given the numbers of other Gigantea you have.

The same thin happen to one of my Gig. He is in my DT system (not all in the DT but in same system) with 5 other Gigantea, 2 Magnifica, and 2 Haddoni. Like your's, he contracted one time about 24 hrs after I fed him a large piece salmon. My QT/HT is used for treatment of my Green Gig so I did not have a place to move him to (actually I still have my office tank which is anemone free at them moment) so I did not isolate him. A day later, he was back to normal.

I hope your will be the same, weather you choose to isolate him or not.

 

[ThRoewer]

I hope you are right as the last thing I would need now is a gig needing treatment.

It looked better again this morning.

It could be that it doesn't like its place in the new tank. Before I had it straight under a Kessil A360NE at only 8 inch below the water surface and only 15 inch total from the LED.
Now it's on the bottom, about 20 inch from the surface and also not straight below the LED (same as before). So it may want more light.

It could also be the flow. The new tank is set up for high flow SPS. The place I have it now is the point with the lowest flow, but it's still quite a bit during the peak flow periods.

This weekend I plan to remodel the rockwork a bit to create a better place for the gig. I wasn't happy with the current rockwork anyway.

 

[ThRoewer]

A lot better this evening:

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[OrionN]

I am glad he is better. Nice Purple. I get attached to my anemone, especially the ones that I work hard to bring them back from been sick.

 

[ThRoewer]

The most upset would be the percula who would have lost their home.
Plus, I plan to bring my 3rd purple gig into that system soon. I couldn't do that with the disease in the system.
It's enough that ich is in there...

 

[ThRoewer]

Came home from dinner tonight and it had deflated again:

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