No one wants the green gigantea on DD?

[Winwood]

If you look close at the picture there appears to be little orange dots.

 

[Winwood]

I misspoke earlier it wasn't the purple ones that eat flatworms but these guys. http://m.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+524+2198&pcatid=2198

Here is a video of one eating a flatworm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=149yeh-oWUc

 

[OrionN]

I completely agree. For the price the risk is too high, especially given how the other DD gigantea fared. I hoped you sense my sarcasm in the original post! :beer:



I just picked up one for $100 at my LFS (but I think that's the buddy price) though it's smaller. And yes -- right now it's yellow after Cipro treatment, but I don't expect it to stay this way:

For some reason, greens are typically cheaper than both blues and purples, yet they are the hardest to find. I personally like the green ones the best because they tend to be a more solid color -- as if there is more green pigment than say a blue or purple where the color is mostly in the tips and the rest of the tentacle is brown.

So D-Nak, how is this Gig now? Able to keep it? I would love to see how he turn out.

 

[Pinkskunk]

Nice....

 

[Cparcaut]

Thats a really nice looking carpet anemone. I'm sure someone will pick it up for that price soon enough.

 

[taylor t]

So D-Nak, how is this Gig now? Able to keep it? I would love to see how he turn out.

x2

 

[taylor t]

I figured as much.

 

[D-Nak]

So D-Nak, how is this Gig now? Able to keep it? I would love to see how he turn out.

x2

Fine! Here's an update. :bounce3:

It's just doing okay. It came out of Cipro treatment but was bleached and lost a lot of tentacles. It also lost quite a bit of mass. I had it in a small tank, and it didn't eat much. I later moved it into my large DT that it shares with my big blue gig, and a medium 10" tan gig.

It now has its appetite back so I've been feeding it a lot more. The tentacles are growing back, and its gained mass, but the process is slow.

Here's a photo from today:

 

[OrionN]

Looks like he is recovering. He will be back to normal healthy shape in no time

 

[taylor t]

D-Nak - Good to hear it's still with you! I know what you mean by taking a long time to recover. Seems they take a long, long, long time to get back to their former glory once they go backwards. Thanks for the update!

 

[D-Nak]

I've learned that they need to be fed A LOT, especially when they have a good feeding response -- meaning they quickly grab food and the mouth expands almost immediately. I've been feeding a mix of LRS, mysis, and salmon chunks.

 

[OrionN]

Even when they are not healthy, bleached but not infected, they can grow fairly fast with heavy feeding.

 

[mnchartier]

I've learned that they need to be fed A LOT, especially when they have a good feeding response -- meaning they quickly grab food and the mouth expands almost immediately. I've been feeding a mix of LRS, mysis, and salmon chunks.

Question on salmon, do you feed only wild caught? If so what do you do when it's out of season. All I can find now if farm raised.

 

[D-Nak]

Question on salmon, do you feed only wild caught? If so what do you do when it's out of season. All I can find now if farm raised.

I only feed wild caught, but that's primarily because I only eat wild caught. Fortunately for me, living here in CA provides me with easy access to fresh salmon and frozen Alaskan so there's no need to deal with the issues associated with farmed salmon (in the case of feeding anemones, it's the unknown additives such as hormones or color enhancers).

However, when wild salmon is available, you can always buy a piece and cut it up into small chunks and re-freeze it, and use it when you need it. You can even soak the pieces in a vitamin supplement such as Selcon.

 

[OrionN]

I feed mine both wild caught and farm raised salmon. Don't have much problem with either.

 

[clorox]

Sometimes my gigs open their mouths the moment they 'smell' food in the water.