S. Gigantia tank
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MM WI
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It is a 40B with sand bottom, t5/MH mix, percs are laying and don't leave the brown anemone by much more than a few inches. I plan on adding a second pair of clowns for the blue when i find the right pair. Black saddlebacks is the plan but plans change. BSBs have worked well in similar situations in the past. If i get this done i will likely stop making changes to this tank for a bit.
The brown has been in this tank for about a year and out of the ocean for a bit longer. I got lucky on the blue, came out of shipping in great shape attached and was eating the first week in the tank. He has not reached 6 months yet but he came in so healthy i expect him to make it long term.
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The brown has been in this tank for about a year and out of the ocean for a bit longer. I got lucky on the blue, came out of shipping in great shape attached and was eating the first week in the tank. He has not reached 6 months yet but he came in so healthy i expect him to make it long term.
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this is me
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First of all, those are ocellaris clowns.
Secondly, it's a little disappointing to see someone as lucky as you are to find a healthy gigantea and wanting to add not only a second pair of clowns, but a different species in a 40gallon tank.
Soopabruva1
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Ouch
miniwhinny
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Wow, looks so healthy! Congrats 
MM WI
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LOL, so funny, well it is a little better than correcting by spelling. LOL:spin1:
So transparent. As much as i would like to teach you more about keeping healthy animals, it would be better to teach you how transparent you are and what you are showing us. I wish i had thought of it but it wouild have been great to deliberately throw out the wrong name to bait you into showing your colors. It was just laziness though. Instead of asking an intelligent question or two this is where you go. I will have to remember this for future posts. It would funny to some not so relevant error in the beginning of each post to out our small minded friends.
Mark
MM WI
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Good job! The big blue one looks fairly new to me, but when it gets fully acclimated, it will be huge. Good excuse to get a bigger tank
Thank you and thank you to all the positive comments.
I have more tanks than i would care to admit. I have recently started to set up 40Bs as anemone theme tanks. I have one growing BTAs quite successfully and am thinking of setting up a third for S. Haddoni. My larger tanks have become too overgrown by sps and lps to keep the nems in a mixed reef as i have in the past. Over the last decade or so I have learned that small tanks are much more capable than we ever thought in the early days of reef keeping. In fact i use much less equipment than what i used many years ago. I use smaller skimmers, no sump and often no other filtration. I do miss the algae scrubbers i used to run but too difficult with all of tanks stand alone. If i ever get them all tied together i will add a big algae scrubber. It would be great to have the algae scrubber gravity into my non-photo tank.
- Mark
this is me
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LOL, so funny, well it is a little better than correcting by spelling. LOL:spin1:
So transparent. As much as i would like to teach you more about keeping healthy animals, it would be better to teach you how transparent you are and what you are showing us. I wish i had thought of it but it wouild have been great to deliberately throw out the wrong name to bait you into showing your colors. It was just laziness though. Instead of asking an intelligent question or two this is where you go. I will have to remember this for future posts. It would funny to some not so relevant error in the beginning of each post to out our small minded friends.
Haha. You're the only one here that's showing your true color(or intelligent rather). Reread all your posts in this thread.
shabreeson
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what's the critter on the glass in the first pic?
MM WI
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That is a small pink and yellow cucumber. I would rather he not be attached where he is but he seems to like it there.
This is a fun tank right now. wish it was not down stairs with my frag systems. I have an aipstasia tank upstairs of all things, I htink i need to put more thought into which tanks go where. If i do a haddoni tank i will need to put it upstairs and move the aipstasia to the basement.
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ColaAddict
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I've had bad experiences trying to mix different types of clowns, always had big fights, so good luck. Those giganteas get so big, very nice.
MM WI
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LOL, I get that alot. I use them to feed aipstasia eating nudis. I have a small batch of them growing right now. I need some fresh dna into by stock soon. My batches have been getting smaller and smaller in size each round. I think i have a bottleneck building. I hate to pay shipping plus top dollar for them but should buy a couple small batches from different sources to keep my genetics diversified. I really have too much going with the hobby, cant keep up with my sixty hour a week day job. Maybe I should reconsider trying to raise a batch of perc :wave: hatchlings.
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trueblackpercula
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Ok lets try and stay on track here........I Would strongly advise. Against. Adding another pair of clowns in such a small tank. As for the s.gignatea its beautiful and I wish I could find one for my tank. Keep the pictures rolling and thanks for sharing.
MM WI
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Over the years the argument i got from this group was how horrible it was for me to keep multiple anemone types in the same tank. Anyone who mentioned that they wanted to try this immediately got knocked down with pretenous jabs about how irresponsible that would be, and of course they were better reef keepers because they do not do it. I knew better, based on decades of keeping multiple nem species in the same tank. My point was that if there were some of us doing it over and over again without trouble, the consensus was wrong. Now I have lots of company in here including the first poster in here to get in the mud.
On clown pairs i have added multiple pairs to many tanks and have not had a problem. Granted these were larger tanks but some of those tanks had nems that were close enough to touch and each with a laying pair of clowns that got along fine. I know this can go south but I would rather see people ask "what makes this work for you" than tell me how horrible i am to do something that will be a problem if it is not well thought out.
I object to seeing poeple with little experience speak in absolutes and act rude toward new people and toward those that exceed them. I can obviously stand up for myself but imagine how many people only read these forums because of the poor behaviour. I am not accusing you of this as your response is simply your position respectfully presented but there was one response that fits my description. Now if what I am saying is correct, two pairs living harmoniously in by 40 will demonstate the point i wish to make quite well.
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deangelr
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This is a flat out wrong statement.. It is important for people to know that 2 pairs of clowns in one tank is a bad idea. There is no evidence that two pairs of mature clowns can live in a 40g tank.. They will kill eachother no matter what species. Your above statement is just retarded. Probably hundreds of people on this site have made similar claims but no one has any long term supportive evidence. Very large tanks, yes it can work.. 40g, forget about it.
The reason we say these things is becuase we care about the fish and the aquarist, and dont want to see things end badly. With very large tanks, 2 mature pairs can work, but that is not the rule.
Just FYI Gigantia is spelled Gigantea.
