New Gigantea-MH On or Off

As of last week until now with the cooling fans upgrade, my range is 79.6-80.1 The heater kicks in, which is very rare, at 79.6 and the fans kick in at 80.1.

Before this, I had a single icecap fan which is old...really old. One of the first equipments I bought since starting this hobby. The fan was great, it will keep the temp in control in the winter/spring/fall but it has a problem with starting up. Sometime it would not start and I would have to manual spin the fins to give it a boost. So this reason, the tank was up to 83 sometime.

So with winter approaching its end, I decided to do something about the fan. I replaced the old Icecap with a Tunze aquawind and what a POS the aquawind is. The biggest money waster I've ever put in this hobby. At 75bucks for the fan, it does jack-crap. My tank was actually heating up compare to the old Icecap fan I have. With the aquawind, I was running at 81.5. This is unacceptable to me since this is in the winter time. So I went to a local computer store last weekend and bought two 120mm fans(rated at 110cfm each) and wired it up and it worked perfectly. Temp never exceed 80.1. In the summer time, it would be another story. But I usually run AC and the fans will keep it in control.

I don't think the gig cares too much about temperature. With the Icecap not turning on on some days, the tank was up to 83, and the gig didn't seem to have a negative reaction to it. And from what I understand, in the wild, these things get baked under the sun during low tide, so the temperature tolerance must be pretty good.


Guy340 said:
Nick, what temp do you have the tank running at?
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If I have an issue with financing on this car I want to buy, I am taking my money I was going to use for a down payment and get a system 70, those tanks are beautiful.
 
Guy340 said:
Any updates Nick?
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Well, after it ate the Chromis and was about a month into it, it was haven't issue with staying fully inflated when the lights went out. It would deflate its tentacles then re-inflate again. The cycle was very quickly. A couple seconds.
I wasn't worried about it much.

Then when mid-altantic storm that brought all the snows in the DC area arrived up to our region, it brought lots of rain and and very very strong wind. We lost power for roughly 12hrs. I only have a battery pump going. During this time, it was deflated more than it was inflated.

When I got the power back, the nems was on slow downward spiral. The tentacles were losing their stickyness to grab any food. At that point, I knew it's going going to make it. After a couple of day I pulled it out of the tank. I have some pictures but it's probably something you wouldn't want to see.

I was really happy to see it was doing well for a month in the tank and I will finally have a gigantea in my tank. But....oh well...
How is yours doing?
 
Dude that sucks. Thats the second power outage on that tank right? If you get a lot of storms up there maybe you should look into a small generator? That tank is to nice to see anything die.
 
ahhhhrrrggg...I read all that and was getting so excited to see how colored up it gets with each new post...and you end it like that....!!! That's worse than the end to "Lord of the Fly's"...

but seriously, having lost livestock to power failures...I know it's a bummer. I live in a rural area...and when we lose power it takes forever for the electric company to come fix my area. The irony of how water and electricity don't mix is even worse when you think just how much our ocean cubes rely on electricity.

sorry for your loss...good luck if you ever get another one...you clearly kow how t take care of them.
 
Sorry to hear what happened. :(

These anemones are so frustrating, and potentially very costly.

During the course of this thread, I also obtained one and lost it after about 10 days. :(
 
:*(

I was also so excited. I'm considering dedicating a system to one of these- really need someone to follow.

Thanks for the pictures and the info. Lovely. Power outages suck! Did you have those air-pump back-ups?

Angela
 
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