ThRoewer
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Last Saturday I scored a blue gig at a local store, They had 4 when I arrived, 2 larger ones that were clearly sick and two smaller ones that looked good.
I took a healthy
This was it on the 1st day:
It still looked good the next day, until I turned the power-strip with pumps and heaters of the QT tanks off to do a water change on the QT with my bicinctus.
Within minutes it deflated and started expelling zooxanthellae:
Day 7, after 5 doses of Cipro:
It didn't deflate anymore but was still expelling some zooxanthellae
Day 8, after 6 doses of Cipro:
Bleached, but it seems to be good now.
I decided to skip the 7th Cipro dose since I'm running a bit low on Cipro and the anemone clearly didn't like it too much.
This Saturday I picked up the second small one they had, a purple one. (I also picked up a bleached but otherwise healthy looking magnifica and, at another store, scored 2 sick haddoni literally for free.)
This is the purple gig. Under actinic light, its tentacle tips really pop:
It spilled some half-digested food, but once in the QT its mouth was firmly closed:
Given that the didn't get sick within a week, I hope I might not need to treat it.
Here a video of both giganteas:
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I took a healthy
This was it on the 1st day:
It still looked good the next day, until I turned the power-strip with pumps and heaters of the QT tanks off to do a water change on the QT with my bicinctus.
Within minutes it deflated and started expelling zooxanthellae:
Day 7, after 5 doses of Cipro:
It didn't deflate anymore but was still expelling some zooxanthellae
Day 8, after 6 doses of Cipro:
Bleached, but it seems to be good now.
I decided to skip the 7th Cipro dose since I'm running a bit low on Cipro and the anemone clearly didn't like it too much.
This Saturday I picked up the second small one they had, a purple one. (I also picked up a bleached but otherwise healthy looking magnifica and, at another store, scored 2 sick haddoni literally for free.)
This is the purple gig. Under actinic light, its tentacle tips really pop:
It spilled some half-digested food, but once in the QT its mouth was firmly closed:
Given that the didn't get sick within a week, I hope I might not need to treat it.
Here a video of both giganteas:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Blk633pu9Zg" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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