Petco Gigantea
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IMO, it is best if you use the same anemone species. However, if this is not available for me, and if my anemone is complete bleached, I would use any anemone as donor, and if this is also not available, I would try on one the LPS. I have never done this (cross species transplant) but I would try this instead of continue to let my anemone bleached. If anybody is doing/did this, I would love to see documentation of the result.
shifty51008
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ok this is a dumb question, lets say you have a bleached gig that was let's say brown and you do a transplat from a blue gig, would the bleached anemone become blue or go back to his brown color?
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The golden brown is the color of zooxanthellae, other colors, blue, green, purple, multicolor ect... are innate pigment of the anemone due to it's genetic.
Short answer: if you have a green Gigantean that bleached, and you do a zoos transplant donor is a one in a billion bright red Gigantea, you will still end up with a very nice green Gigantea, not a red one.
Wouldn't it be nice if we can change the color of our anemone by just bleaching it?
Short answer: if you have a green Gigantean that bleached, and you do a zoos transplant donor is a one in a billion bright red Gigantea, you will still end up with a very nice green Gigantea, not a red one.
Wouldn't it be nice if we can change the color of our anemone by just bleaching it?
shifty51008
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Thanks for the explination, makes more sence now.
But yes it would be great if it was that easy to change the color of a anemone. Heck much better than dyeing it.
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Zooxanthellae Transplant For Bleached Anemones
Zooxanthellae Transplant For Bleached Anemones
I performed a Zooxanthellae transplant for my Bleached Gigantea today. I did photo documentation of the procedure as below:
1. Obtained a tentacle from my healthy donor. Since my anemone is so small, I will just use a small piece of fish, and just use 1 tentacle
2. Stuff the tentacle into a piece of food, salmon in this case:
3. Here is a picture of my anemone before I feed him the zooxznthallae laced food:
Zooxanthellae Transplant For Bleached Anemones
I performed a Zooxanthellae transplant for my Bleached Gigantea today. I did photo documentation of the procedure as below:
1. Obtained a tentacle from my healthy donor. Since my anemone is so small, I will just use a small piece of fish, and just use 1 tentacle
2. Stuff the tentacle into a piece of food, salmon in this case:
3. Here is a picture of my anemone before I feed him the zooxznthallae laced food:
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4. Feed the zooxanthellae laced food to the anemone:
5. Just follow up to make sure the anemone ate the food:
6. Post feeding picture:
I expect the anemone will start regain zooxanthellae in about 2 weeks. A little longer in this case because I did not feed him as many zooxanthellae as I wanted too.
5. Just follow up to make sure the anemone ate the food:
6. Post feeding picture:
I expect the anemone will start regain zooxanthellae in about 2 weeks. A little longer in this case because I did not feed him as many zooxanthellae as I wanted too.
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shifty51008
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Great documintation, will really help out alot of others. Wish you good luck
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It have been almost 4 years since I started this thread. I traded one Gigantea for coral. Still have two of the original 3 Gigantea that I started this thread with in 2013. Here is a picture today of one of the three.
It is a big girl (or boy) at 20+ inches. She never spawn so I think she may be a girl. I am start to feed my Gigantea more to see if I can induce spawn.
Water quality of my tank noticeable decrease when I feed all my anemones at the same time. I will see the front glass cover with algae quicker, days, rather than weeks. I will spread the feeding out. 1/2 of the anemone get feed each week.
It is a big girl (or boy) at 20+ inches. She never spawn so I think she may be a girl. I am start to feed my Gigantea more to see if I can induce spawn.
Water quality of my tank noticeable decrease when I feed all my anemones at the same time. I will see the front glass cover with algae quicker, days, rather than weeks. I will spread the feeding out. 1/2 of the anemone get feed each week.
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It have been almost 4 years since I started this thread. I traded one Gigantea for coral. Still have two of the original 3 Gigantea that I started this thread with in 2013. Here is a picture today of one of the three.
It is a big girl (or boy) at 20+ inches. She never spawn so I think she may be a girl. I am start to feed my Gigantea more to see if I can induce spawn.
Water quality of my tank noticeable decrease when I feed all my anemones at the same time. I will see the front glass cover with algae quicker, days, rather than weeks. I will spread the feeding out. 1/2 of the anemone get feed each week.
Nice. I have to imagine yours are some of the few gigs that petco has ever sold that are still alive. Those are some lucky anemones.
I went to Petco after work again today. I saw this little guy and jut have to pick him up. I an starting a new 65 gal at work. That is where he will go once I finish with QT. He is only slightly biger than a silver dollar. The cup is a usual size coffee cup and the oyster shell is a small one.
Looks like the turd I just picked up.
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