S.Gigantia victim of MP10

[killakam]

Hello peeps, have had this Gigantia for more than a month and has been doing well. Yesterday, I had to move some rocks because of some coral placement issues and moved the anemone a little higher for better light and more room. Woke up this morning and the inner motor was on the floor and a small part of anemone was damaged, some tentacles were smaller and a little part showed white flesh. I fed it 2 small silversides later in the afternoon and it consumed them within no time. I took the following pics few minutes ago, probably estimated 12 hours after the event took place. The anemone moved the injured part to the back side by rotating at this time, in the morning, it was near the front right side. The tentacles have also increased thrice in length and are back to normal size. I believe the anemone tried to move or expand and grabbed the mp10, when it tried to grab it, the mp10 probably dismounted and fell leaving the anemone alone and limiting the damage.
I wanted to know if there is anything specific I should do at this point which can increase its survival rate. Any help/advice would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[BonsaiNut]

Doesn't look bad to me. In my opinion, anything you would TRY to do runs the risk of doing more harm than good. Just leave it alone and it should heal up without issues. For whatever reason it seems that anemones recover much more quickly from damage to the rim of their oral disks than to other parts of their bodies.

 

[ct_vol]

Doesn't look bad to me. In my opinion, anything you would TRY to do runs the risk of doing more harm than good. Just leave it alone and it should heal up without issues. For whatever reason it seems that anemones recover much more quickly from damage to the rim of their oral disks than to other parts of their bodies.

I concur... :thumbsup: Good looking Gig by the way...

 

[D-Nak]

I agree that it doesn't look that bad. Do you have any shrimp that might pick at it at night? That's the only thing I'd be concerned about, especially while the clowns are sleeping and unable to protect the nem. Otherwise I think it will heal in no one, especially given the health of your anemone -- looks very happy aside from the little wound.

 

[killakam]

Thanks for the response guys.
I hope that is the case, the part hurt is really small and hopefully will recover soon.

I have a coral banded shrimp but it knows better, it never approaches the anemone area.

 

[Reefvette]

Tough

Tough

They are tough as nails when they are in good shape like that i had one get sucked into a tunze about 20 inches across. Took out a three inch chunk and it lived!

Feed it and give it good flow.

 

[c-me-fish]

I agree that it doesn't look that bad. Do you have any shrimp that might pick at it at night? That's the only thing I'd be concerned about, especially while the clowns are sleeping and unable to protect the nem. Otherwise I think it will heal in no one, especially given the health of your anemone -- looks very happy aside from the little wound.

I don't know of any shrimp that would try to pick on an gig... I've seen them steer clear once their antenna start to stick.

The nem looks fine, but I wouldn't feed it for at least a couple of weeks. As others have said, give it lots of light and leave it alone.

 

[D-Nak]

I don't know of any shrimp that would try to pick on an gig... I've seen them steer clear once their antenna start to stick.

Injured anemones tend to get picked on by a lot of things, especially if the injury is on the column or the edge of the oral disk. Peppermint shrimp come to mind. I've read quite a few stories of injured nems (especially those that were shredded by a powerhead) getting picked at in the middle of the night. In this case, the injury is small in comparison to the total size of the nem, so I wouldn't be too concerned.

 

[killakam]

I shouldn't feed it?

 

[Reefvette]

If it eats feed it. I fed mine and it grew back stronger

 

[elegance coral]

If it eats feed it.

So simple, yet so true.:thumbsup:

The only thing I would do to help an anemone in this condition, would be to step up water changes. I'd just keep the environment as clean as possible. Like you would do for any animal/human that has an open wound.