Petco Gigantea

[worm5406]

Glad they are doing good, and you caught the other one.

In hindsight of your problems a long while ago, would it be best to now TT all three of them? Worrying that whatever the bad one is putting off will make the other two get the same problem?

I know that happened before on your tank. (?? right??)

 

[OrionN]

I won't threat all three. At most I put one to QT and two in TT. Will see which will do better.

 

[xtlosx]

This makes me want to stop by my local petco just to see if they have anything.. Sometimes they get good stuff and price is completely wrong.

 

[OrionN]

Improvement don't know if it is from medication or not. Hope it is a good sign

 

[OrionN]

8 hrs or so after treatment and also with 50% water change and add another tablet Cipro. I would change 99% of the water but I did not have enough water on hand. I will do more change tomorrow. I have decided to just leave all three anemones in TT to treat.

 

[OrionN]

Glad they are doing good, and you caught the other one.

In hindsight of your problems a long while ago, would it be best to now TT all three of them? Worrying that whatever the bad one is putting off will make the other two get the same problem?

I know that happened before on your tank. (?? right??)

IMO, when a sick anemone deflated, he purge and dump all the bad stuff out into the water, bacteria and what have you. Healthy anemone then take these nasty stuff in and get sick.

In this case, as soon as I see the anemone start to deflates, I add antibiotic right away. Hope this will keep the healthy ones from getting sick. I imagine that I can take the healthy anemones out, they would be fine. I just make sure that I won't transfer any of the water to the QT. And will not expose any of my healthy anemones to the possible sick ones.

I did not have the time and have decided to keep all three in the TT and treat them all. Will see if the two non deflating anemones continue to do well, I will move him/them to QT sometime this weekend. The sick one will get a full 7 days treatment course.

Of course all of this plan assuming that they response great to the antibiotic treatment and will all do well.

 

[worm5406]

Very nice Minh.

I was just wondering, as your stories, previously, had scared me to keep an eye and be ready for the anemones.

I am looking at a blue gig. But I think I might wait. I am on the fence.

 

[sjwitt]

Is it just the picture or are they getting lighter?

 

[OrionN]

Automatic light function show a very dark color anemone because of the white back ground. I increase the light to show the anemone clearer. I should have done that to all the other pictures. They only minimally lighten up from purging some zooxanthellae.

 

[OrionN]

Ran to the office this AM. The anemone seem OK, not deflating. Back to essentially normal. I will need to recheck and add medication this afternoon. I will take another picture then.

 

[OrionN]

This evening just about when the light turning out, I did 50% water change and added medication. There is no deflation and no evidence of problem. I took a picture right after water change, before add medication.

Looking at the anemones closely under rather bright light, they start to have purple/red and green color. I hope I hit the jack pot here and end up with some very nice color Gigantea.

 

[ct_vol]

Ran to the office this AM. The anemone seem OK, not deflating. Back to essentially normal. I will need to recheck and add medication this afternoon. I will take another picture then.

I think the little one in the center has a lot of potential...

 

[Overboard]

Looking good! Ultimately, I don't think they will be just brown. They are multicolor now and I bet the purple and green shades pick up when you get them in your display system. It will be very interesting to watch them develop over the next month or two.

Checked a local Petco.........nothing. Your store in Corpus probably has a good manager with an interest in saltwater.

 

[OrionN]

Sunday 9/8/2013 PM, right before adding more medication, after 50% water change. One of the three anemone decided to go for a walk today.
The small anemone that decided to walk:

The largest Gigantea

The sick Gigantea

 

[salty joe]

Does Cipro destroy the biological filter?
What does TT stand for?
Good luck.

 

[OrionN]

TT means treatment tank.

Reef biological filtration system depends on a variety of bacterial. Cipro is a broad spectrum antibiotic that will kill a wide range of bacterial and will upset the balance of a reef tank.

I never use antibiotic in reef tank, could not even begin to predict what effect it have on our delicate filtration system.

There are a few reefers who use antibiotic in the tank. Some even wrote about it. Other dipped anemone in it for 1-2 hrs. One particular person wrote that he use 250 mg Cipro and mixed with just enough to water to cover the anemone. If you absolutely will not or cannot set up a TT, then use the dipping method. I do not know how effective it is.

 

[OrionN]

Looking good! Ultimately, I don't think they will be just brown. They are multicolor now and I bet the purple and green shades pick up when you get them in your display system. It will be very interesting to watch them develop over the next month or two.

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I think the little one in the center has a lot of potential...

Mark and Randy,
I think/hope that both of you are right. I think the largest Gig will have some great green color. One of my Gig was larger, and plainer looking 16 months ago and he is pretty green right now.
One of the smaller one, the one that went for a walk really have a lot of potential. He has a lot of red and purple in his tentacles. I hope he will be the most special of the group. If they survive, I will keep this thread update.
This is just re-post picture of the small nicest one.

 

[salty joe]

I was just wondering if using a seeded pad in a hang on the tank Whisper type filter would be useful.

 

[OrionN]

I was just wondering if using a seeded pad in a hang on the tank Whisper type filter would be useful.

For? These pads have minor mechanical filtration and some carbon. They are not very effective. In TT I recommend a lot of water change to keep nutrient/waste level down. Since we don't feed the anemone, there should be minimal waste output.
You really would not want to use carbon in treatment tank since with will remove the medication.

 

[salty joe]

For biological filtration. I was looking at another anenome thread where ammonia became a problem in the TT. He was not feeding the anenome. Just treating with Cipro.