S. gigantea at last

[OrionN]

They are under 250 DE MH 10,000K. The tank is about 65 g 36X18X22H. I have 1200GPH return pump and two Korallia 4 for circulation. All run continuous. I got the PH meet just right over the amemone which produce lots of current. I am about to move him to an 30X30X25 cube with two 5 g surge tank. Hope to set ip up and move in the next month. My anemone is touching fromt and back glass now.

 

[OrionN]

I just added a new S. gigantea to my tank two days ago on Wednesday (2/17/2010). I got it from one of the LFS (GCreef.com) here in Corpus Christi. I hope he will do well for me. The other Gigantea is still doing very well and eating well. The semi tank crash did not hurt him. It just devastated my SPS and fish. I lost 90% of my SPS some very beautiful and expensive.
He was deflated this morning when I cam into the office but re-inflated quickly. Even deflated, he was rigid, and able to hold his oral plate curved and fold against good current. I am not sure if this is a bad sign or not. I know that flabby deflated is a bad sign but short deflation that leaves the anemone rigid may not be bad. Of course it would be better if he did not deflated at all.
Here is a picture of this new blue Gigantea. You can see one of the mortality from my tank crash. The skeleton of a Tricolor Acropora is right next to it.

 

[this is me]

Great looking!
Are you concern with the newly acquire gigantea with the current one in the tank? If the new one for some reason don't make it, will it make the healthy one in the same tank sick as well?

 

[OrionN]

Nick,
There is something in that. I lost a Haddoni after I added another haddoni that was sick. However, I am too greedy for my own good. If this happen here, I will be extreemly upset to say the least.

 

[OrionN]

I hope to move him from my office to home soon. Everything is at the house. Just plump it up and set it up. I got one of my cube going with two magnifica in it and will add the second cube for the Gigantea, maybe two. I will plump both tank to one system and will run carbon all the time.
For now, here is the picture of the Magnific a tank:

 

[COreefer]

I just added a new S. gigantea to my tank two days ago on Wednesday (2/17/2010). I got it from one of the LFS (GCreef.com) here in Corpus Christi. I hope he will do well for me. The other Gigantea is still doing very well and eating well. The semi tank crash did not hurt him. It just devastated my SPS and fish. I lost 90% of my SPS some very beautiful and expensive.
He was deflated this morning when I cam into the office but re-inflated quickly. Even deflated, he was rigid, and able to hold his oral plate curved and fold against good current. I am not sure if this is a bad sign or not. I know that flabby deflated is a bad sign but short deflation that leaves the anemone rigid may not be bad. Of course it would be better if he did not deflated at all.
Here is a picture of this new blue Gigantea. You can see one of the mortality from my tank crash. The skeleton of a Tricolor Acropora is right next to it.

Are you sure that is Gigantea? That looks like an Atlantic species carpet to me.

 

[OrionN]

Atlantic Carpet have very prominent veraccue and do not have folded oral disk like Gigantea or Haddoni. This is not a Atlantic carpet. I am 100% sure that this is a S. gigantea. It is a little bleached but still have pleny zooxanthellae and should recover if everything else OK. These are such poor shipper that his survival is 50/50 at best. I hope for the best.

 

[Guy340]

Minh,

What temp are you keeping your nem tank at?

 

[OrionN]

My tank temp is at minimum of 80 degree F (heater set at 80 ). It may get up to 82 some days.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Minh:

Nice looking anemones.

I have a blue gigantea coming in tomorrow, and I was curious about your placement of them. I saw you mentioned that the first one was only on rock, not sand. Is that true for the second one as well, and is that your general recommendation? A lot of folks seem to have them at the rock sand interface.

TIA

 

[OrionN]

I placed mine on the rock and it climb to the side of the rock. My larger Gigantea lowest point of the foot is only 1/2 inch above the sand. The oral plate is actually touching and resting on the sand at times.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

OK, great. Thanks.

 

[OrionN]

Here is another picture of my little blue Gigantea. He was deflated this when I got to the office this AM but quickly inflated after the light came on. I am not sure what that mean. I fed him yesterday. While deflated he excreted some waste. I hope that this is all it is.

 

[Creetin]

Very nice i am jealous. I could have piked up a nice yellow and didnt have the heart after my last 2 died. Maybe in time when i can feel the need to try again. These are my fav nems!

 

[OrionN]

I don't think my little one will make it. In 10 days it only deflated 4 times but it start to detach from the rock. I cannot afford for it to flow around in my DT at the office, so I put it in my 24 g Aquapod quarantine tank (full reef tank) in a basket with a little rock in it and good flow. It deflated again and not attaching. IME, this is a "dead anemone walking" (or not walking). It is a bummer> It is really nice looking ad look well for a time. I just hope it won't pass on what it have to my healthy Gigantea. Wish me luck I hope not to loose the larger Gigantea from this.

 

[Newreeflady]

Wow, these threads are so encouraging, and discouraging at the same time. Sounds like survival rate really depends first and foremost on the health of the species at purchase time- which might appear OK, then deteriorate rapidly.

Were there size differences in these two? Any notable differences in appearance at time of purchase? I don't know if this is a silly question, but could two anems of the same species have any warfare against each other?

Hey, could you also take a fts of the tank with the gigantea in it?

thx!
Angela