Water movement for S. gigantea

[OrionN]

I always have though that Gigantea need a lot of water movement. Maily this is due to me/us not able to keep Gigantea a live with ususaly tank condition, plus the few people who were able to keep Gigantea report that they were keep with a lot of water movement.
Recently there seem to be information that Gigantea can be keep with low water flow. An example of this in in the Waikiki Aquarium. There is a Gigantea there at is doing well with hardly any water movemnt at all.

So, what kind of flow do you keep your gigantea under? Is it doing well and for how long?

I keep my under very high flow of an MP10 in small 30 cube, another unce two MP10 in a 65 g tank and the third under a MP60 in a 100 g cube tank. All doing very well and have been under captivity one 12+ years (under my care 6 months), one for 13 months and one for 10 months.

 

[Reef1589]

one of my purples in the 150g...that has 2 mp40's and are usually turned to 80%.. he chooses to stau in a corner that receives very little flow...

my green and purple in my 65gshallow with 2 mp10's turned to 80% usually stay right in the middle of the tank where the two flows crash together and create chaotic flow ...

purple in the 29g bioecube receives medium flow...just from the return and a small powerhead that barely brushed over the top of it..but is enough to make it move so id rate it at a medium/moderate flow


and my big blue is currently in a Qt Tank receiving minimal flow ...but when he was in the 150 received heavy indirect flow from the mp40

 

[hobogato]

mine is in an area of moderate to high flow. it seems to like it right on the edge of the high flow area right in front of the output of the tunze wavebox. sometimes it shifts over into the high flow area for the day and sometimes it extends upward away from it. the tank has a 3000gph gyre type closed loop flow as well, so there is constant directional flow as well as the sloshing from the wave box.

 

[Ron Popeil]

ive been keeping this little specimen under some pretty low flow for the past several months, it isnt even receiving direct light from the halide. but its doing just fine.

 

[showjet98]

Some videos Ive seen of them in the wild had almost no flow, all you see is the tentacles wiggling like crazy

 

[Greg 45]

At this time slow flow and a wave box
I add and remove e ductors to add flow and the wave box
I put them on for a week or two and remove
The ocean is always changing so does my system
There are Gigs , mertens, and hadoni that I do this to
Everyone seems to enjoy

 

[OrionN]

I think just this small sample show that high flow may not be an important factor in keeping Gigantea anemones. Initial health if the anemone is of primary important.

 

[D-Nak]

I think just this small sample show that high flow may not be an important factor in keeping Gigantea anemones. Initial health if the anemone is of primary important.

I agree. Since they live in tidepools that sometimes don't have any water movement, I think they can live in many different environmental conditions so long as they are healthy.

I actually thought about removing my MP40s and going with a wavebox, since I think my gigs will benefit from the type of movement that the wavebox provides, and I don't have to worry about them getting sucked into the MP40.

 

[roni]

I have a ton of flow (2 mp60s, tunze 6155, wavebox, return) but the gigantea is in a lower flow area. Was originally in higher flow and ended up wandering tank until it found a lower flow, lower light area.

 

[alexknight]

My large Gig moved its self from a low water movement place in the tank to a very high one, right across the tank from a powerful power head. I will post pics and more details tomorrow when I get the camera to work.

 

[xtlosx]

My large purple gig is sitting about 5" away from an MP40, and a little to the side, but when it's full blast it moves the one side of the pedal around.. This is where it has moved itself. I initially placed it lower in the tank. It's slowly moving itself upward, and potentially out of the way, but not sure.. slow like a tortoise.

My green gig was in the middle of the tank where both MP40s collided, but didn't get as much flow as it wanted, so it moved. Now it's on the side of the island and gets intermittent powerful blasts of flow, with some calm in between..

I don't think they like flow as much as Mags, but they certainly like being moved around.. Reefcrest provides periods of heavy flow, but then some calm in between.. seems to work out well here.

 

[alexknight]

ok So here are the pictures.

I not very happy where the Gig set up home at its in a high flow area. Its Very hard for me to get pictures and see whats going on.
But I will not move it, as I have learned the less you mess with them the more things are happy.

 

[schprock]

Here are a couple short videos of the giganteas I took from waikiki last year. Very low flow and they are healthy. The blue is in a large tank with carlson surge device. My opinion is that with a carlson device, there is high oxygen content and minimal flow is required to bring the needed oxygen to the anemone itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cK_0y6aiXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIWWhIrj6c

 

[Deepsea2005]

My Blue Gig does not like a high flow.
I have to replace the 2 tunzes that point to the front from about 2,500 g/h to 1,500 g/h

 

[OrionN]

Deepsea,
That is a very nice blue Gigantea

 

[Deepsea2005]

Thanks OrionN.
Yours are very nice too.

 

[cichlidconvert]

Green hangs out just outside of where two currents collide and appears to love the chaotic flow that results. My blue hangs out directly underneathand around a large rock where the currents come from both sides of the rock but push it around alot. When I put it in the tank it was moving around and left my low flow area and bee lined for this spot. It gets less light due to the big green acting as an umbrella. And the purple is enjoying med indirect flow in the qt tank