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Here's an update of the duo. The colors are now a lot better than before. The purple regain all of its zoanthallae making it more brown in appearance.
How established was the reef before you added them? I'm assuming I'll need 6 months at least after reaching stable parameters.
Would you guys trust an online dealer or just local? Any cost expectations on a blue/purple?
Impressive, I'm so tempted to go to MH but I want to give my ATI 24w 8 bulb a shot. Seems to be going well for now though. Awesome tank and love the gigs. I have a 10" purple that was bleached and a 5" that was bleached I'm trying to rescue. Going good so far but I noticed you said you prefer not to feed anemones? You don't feed your gigs at all? What benefit do you get from not feeding or is it just personal preference to keep nutrients down or worried about bad food? I also noticed you only have one pump for flow, is it an MP40 and no issues without foam guards? I have a 93 cube which my gigs reside and was thinking of adding a gyre 130 to supplement with my mp40 but worry about no foam guards.
I agree with this too. I have a blue I got from my buddy Pete a year and a half ago. He had it almost 2 years. While Pete had it, he fed it all the time, large pieces of food. He grew it to at least 20-22", maybe even 24". It got tentacles 4", maybe longer. I never saw a gig with such long tents. It was a real beauty. Then his tanks got neglected, it shrank,(they all regressed), he got out and I bought them all (5 of them). That same blue gig today, the tents are about 1-1.5" long, body is a folded 8" wide, by about 10" long laying between rocks in a crack. Layed out like a plate, it's maybe 12" diameter (a guess if I pulled it and stretched it to measure it). A far cry from what it was. Today, it's healthy, looks good, and I rarely ever feed it (lately, a small piece maybe once a week). It was a monster at one time. If you run across a thread of ptr13 on RC, he refers to this gig as "Goliath", it was a monster at one time. You'd never know it today by looking at it.This makes me wonder how many of those small giganteas are actually a monster at one point.