S. gigantea help please.........

[delphinus]

I tried force feeding both the purple and the blue that I had tried this year. It didn't work for either. The blue was so bleached from the get go I knew it was a long shot to begin with. The purple had in fact darkened up so I thought it stood a better chance and it did last a little longer but in the end it was the same thing. And to really rub salt in the wound, shortly after I lost my purple, I lost my brown that I had had for 5 years due to some kind of bacterial infection, it looked like one side started melting. The tissue disintegration stopped but he stopped eating. So now I wonder if there may have been something pathogenic about it compounding things.

 

[a4twenty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14177184#post14177184 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by delphinus
And to really rub salt in the wound, shortly after I lost my purple, I lost my brown that I had had for 5 years due to some kind of bacterial infection, it looked like one side started melting. The tissue disintegration stopped but he stopped eating. So now I wonder if there may have been something pathogenic about it compounding things.

so sorry to hear :sad2:


i'm not going to try another gigantea, hear of to many failures and not enough of successes.

 

[delphinus]

Thanks.

Think I've said this before, and I think it's still true: it's totally a question of luck with this species. 1 in 10 will make it, we all hope we'll be that 1, but statistically, odds are that we're 1 of the 9.