S. Gigantea Carpet Anemone Tank

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I agree. Gigantea are difficult animal to keep. Antibiotic will help with infection often happen with collection/holding and shipping. For long term survival, they really need a stable system with great biological filtration, and good light anc current.

It looks like all your anemones did not make it through the initial period. I am very sorry about this.
 
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Just watched some of the videos. I am still missing the cut marks though.

But, one thing to take note of: one gig getting sucked into the MP40 is enough to kill all of them unfortunately.
 
D-Nak said:
Just watched some of the videos. I am still missing the cut marks though.

But, one thing to take note of: one gig getting sucked into the MP40 is enough to kill all of them unfortunately.
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Not sure which video you are watching but the gig didnt sustained any injury just more stress.

I am partially blame for inquiring and buying so that I admit to.

I think I am done. You guys can make your own decisions on what is really going on here...
 
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Some one is cutting up Gigantea ans it is not working other than immediately for him by charging double, only have them die in our hand.
 
Best thing is just not buy from him anymore ---- sad because i thought he was a honest person to deal with --- i even gave him a xtra tank to qt in
 
it is a mistery to me as i can not understand why such practice is taking place???

- why did they chose the Gigantea? were they successfull doing it and having great success with them locally, therefore decided to ship them to the US?

- or is the population of gigs on the decline therefore fewer were collected and so they need to compensate for it buy force divide?

- or just pure greed???
 
Just to clarify. I hate when I hear terms like "clone" or "propagate" being applied to S. gigantea. You cut an S. gigantea in half, it dies. Period. This is just one more of numerous cases of the same thing being repeated.

That said, since I have seen a pink unicorn this year, it is possible that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will prove me wrong. However right now you can assume a 99.9999% failure rate - certainly nothing that comes CLOSE to break-even.
 
Not to mention everyone and thier quadriplegic uncle wants a gigantea right now, no wonder they are doing this.

In the past 3 months there have been like 25 new s. Gigantea threads.

I know theres this new treatment but jeeze.

Just my $0.02
 
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That said, since I have seen a pink unicorn this year,
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lol i couldnt help but laugh at this. im sorry i had to post that red gig =P

*edit* since my previous post contained not feedback to the thread..

i still wish to stay with my original statement.... keeping the Giga's seperated for treatment.. buying so many at a large bulk to me seemed like you were looking to have an overnight mircale S. gigantea tank, and imo that cant be done... they need to be slowly collected over time... you coulda easily done 2/month.. treating in 2 10 gal/tanks.. and couple months down the road from now... (if successful) had a large number of S. Giga's ...

with that being said, i hope you dont entirely give up on the idea, because i like it.. i think you should just step back and slow it down, and collect over time :P
 
I Got a Gig From Ben and i did a treatment in a 5 gallon tank and i treated just as Minh did but i only used 5 gallon of water per pill not 10 gallons . My gig is doing wonderful just my $0.02 . I Think any one that is cutting Gigs is a terrible and senseless thing to do to such a wonderful and beautiful creature
 
Reef1589 said:
lol i couldnt help but laugh at this. im sorry i had to post that red gig =P

*edit* since my previous post contained not feedback to the thread..

i still wish to stay with my original statement.... keeping the Giga's seperated for treatment.. buying so many at a large bulk to me seemed like you were looking to have an overnight mircale S. gigantea tank, and imo that cant be done... they need to be slowly collected over time... you coulda easily done 2/month.. treating in 2 10 gal/tanks.. and couple months down the road from now... (if successful) had a large number of S. Giga's ...

with that being said, i hope you dont entirely give up on the idea, because i like it.. i think you should just step back and slow it down, and collect over time :P
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I will scale back and slowly do this... I figure that since I was going to get a price break I was going to buy them one time. I didn't think they were going to be sliced up to die...

[QuoteI Got a Gig From Ben and i did a treatment in a 5 gallon tank and i treated just as Minh did but i only used 5 gallon of water per pill not 10 gallons . My gig is doing wonderful just my $0.02 . I Think any one that is cutting Gigs is a terrible and senseless thing to do to such a wonderful and beautiful creature[/quote]

I am glad that you have one that survives but how long will it survive... and you are the only one that I know with this survival rate...others whom pmd me tell me otherwise and they also bought 1 or 2.

I will still keep my eyes open for new gigs but at LFS... I am discourage to buy gigs online.
 
ill agree with u there....buying em online and not seeing them in person...its rough....ive only ever bought one offline and that was from liveaquaria...and still died...since then all my gigs have been bought in person
 
i got mine from ben in person the firsr one was in a tank by itself and made it 5 days the 2nd one was in a tank with like 6 of them (10 gallon) i should of know better but was hoping with the cipro treatment i could help it saldy this is not a miricale drug i think for a bit i am going to hold off on trying these -----not saying it is bens fault but i dont think who is getting them from is being to honest
 
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