New Gig from Live Aquaria

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Mirror Pond

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I've been half heartedly looking for a gigantea for a few months but couldn't find any locally and could not afford the beautiful colored ones from Diver's Den that I would occasionally see . I was wandering around on the internet on Christmas Eve and stumbled across the anemone section on Live Aquaria and saw that it had large "True Carpet - tan" S. gigantea in stock. I went ahead and pulled the trigger and it showed up on my doorstep on Friday morning. I floated it for about 20 minutes and acclimated it to my water over the next hour by adding 1/2 cup of my tank water every 5 minutes or so. I then placed it in a 20 gallon long quarantine tank with a heater, small powerhead and placed an Evergrow D120 led light over the tank. It was fairly deflated at first but quickly inflated and attached to the bottom of the tank immediately.

The mouth stayed open a little bit so I decided to start antibiotic treatments right away just in case. I did not have any cipro on hand but I did have a supply of sulfamethoxazole (800 mg)/TMP(160 mg) DS tablets which I cut in quarters. I have now treated the anemone for 4 days and I have not witnessed any deflation. You can see a little bit of a stringy substance in the picture below and that is the only stuff that has been expelled over the 4 days. I'm going to stop treatments and observe it for a few more days and if everything still looks good, I'll add it to my display tank.

Its hard to take a very good picture but here it is under 40 percent blue channel and whites just barely turned on:



Under 40 percent white with blue just barely on:

 
Get something for him to attach on. That way, you can move him with minimal trauma when the time come.
Looking good. Good luck with him.
 
Looking good. How big is it? And how big did LA describe it? I've seen them for sale every once in a while and have been curious to try one out.
 
It was described as tan in color and "large" (9"-15") which I'm sure it will be when fully inflated. I'm very happy with it for the price I paid. I signed up for email alerts in the past but they were always out of stock by the time I went to check on them. This time I just happened to go to the site when they had one in stock. I have no idea how long they had it listed.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+499+2871&pcatid=2871
 
D-Nak said:
Looking good. How big is it? And how big did LA describe it? I've seen them for sale every once in a while and have been curious to try one out.
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Didn't you just got rid of one because you are out of room? :)
You need a bigger tank.
 
OrionN said:
Didn't you just got rid of one because you are out of room? :)
You need a bigger tank.
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Oh, I made more room... photos of my new project to come!:lol2:

Good to know that the sizes are accurate. I was hoping to score a "small" one.
 
you are very lucky, the last ones I receive from them were haddonis and really small gigs, thats a beaut, good score.
 
ptr13 said:
you are very lucky, the last ones I receive from them were haddonis and really small gigs, thats a beaut, good score.
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Thanks. I tried to order one from another vendor several years ago and received 3 straight haddonis. I still need to place something in the tank for him to attach to but it is still looking good.

 
Thanks Jordan. I do still have the magnifica and it seems to be doing fairly well. I forgot how long I have had it but it must be at least 6 or 7 years now. I was looking back at some old pictures of it recently and noticed that it was much larger than it is now. I have started feeding it a couple of times a week (haven't fed it in years) in hopes that it will regain some of its size.
 
He looks good...nice score...congratulations! That nem is going to be double that size when he gets very comfortable. I am not familiar with sulfamethoxazole but glad it is working for you and I am glad you are documenting its use. Until we know more about the pathogens that cause our anemones harm the better it is to have antibiotic options. I'm looking forward to seeing this guy healthy and happy in your tank in the near future.
 
Here is an update from this evening. I decided to plumb a small tank into my main system just for the anemone for now. I may decide to add it to my display tank at a later time but I kind of like it by itself for now. It would be easy to disconnect the tank from the display if I ever need to treat the gig in the future. It is really gaining some purple color and it can look very different depending on the setting of the led light above the tank. The following picture was taken with the white channel at 100% and the blue at about 30%.

 
Very nice picture. I wonder what a video would look like at that same setting.
I will have to try that at home too.

Plumbing a small tank is not that hard at all, that is what I am doing here, but I am
plumbing in a 120 into the 180, and upgrading the 40 sump to a 75 sump. The new 120
will house a gig also, and it's clowns.

Yes being able to disconnect it is the key in the event that something happens.
 
Here is a very bad video made with my iphone as I was trying to change the lighting at the same time. You can kind of tell the color changes to the anemone as I change the light settings. Sorry for the terrible quality.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EIIHaphl00w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
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