Wish Me luck!!!

[Dlckwood]

Hey fellow clownfish and anemone lovers. I just wanted to share my new find and get your best wishes and also much needed advice. He is brand new so he can go up or downhill fast.

David

 

[phender]

Very nice David.
I found that setting up a surge really perked my little gigantea up. Tentacle extention and overall growth rate both increased.
I didn't have a surge device so I bought a bigger pump, hooked it to a SQWD and put 1" round outlets on the 3/4" return lines.
I puts out a lot more water than I used to have but doesn't blast the anemone at the same time.

Good luck

 

[OrionN]

Best of luck.
I am setting up an tank for one and several A. percula. My research indicated that they need lots of flow and a surge system is most likely very good for them.
I hope I will be ready for one in 3 months. When the time come, I hope to get one as nice as your's.

 

[Dlckwood]

I just went to the lfs in the area again today and they had 5 more blue ones and a green one. They wern't as big but they must be coming in more.
David

 

[55semireef]

OMG...5 more blue ones and a green one? I have yet to see a Gigantea in real life...lol.

Good luck with your Gigantea. BTW, what is a surge?

 

[OrionN]

David,
Is that a small blue S. haddoni near the right lower corner of you picture?
If I have a choice I would choose a smaller fish or anemone over the bigger one.
Goodluck

 

[Dlckwood]

Yeah, I got it as an impulse buy a few months ago and its doing great.
David

 

[Dlckwood]

So the last few days have been very rocky and I am doing everything in my power to get this guy as good as when I got him. Why is he going down hill so fast in a tank in which everything else is thriving?
David

 

[cook]

I am in the same boat with a new one that color. I also have a thriving red haddoni. I think it is a game of chance with these b/c they usually don't ship well and haddoni are easier to keep.

 

[sonofgaladriel]

Good luck, its beautiful!

 

[55semireef]

Updates?

 

[Dlckwood]

Its hanging in there. I bought a SCWD and it seemed to help but It does not look well at all.

 

[55semireef]

Whats a SCWD?

 

[delphinus]

I'm sorry I missed this thread earlier. Best of luck with the carpet David. I have a SCWD myself in one of my gigantea tanks but to be honest I find it's more effective to have a bunch of powerheads on a wavemaker and then creatively play with things until you have an area of convergence of flows near the anemone, plus alternating directions.

55sr, a SCWD is a device you put on your sump return or closed loop and it mechanically switches output from left to right. Here's a link http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_wavemakers_scwd_squid.asp?CartId=

 

[cook]

How is the carpet? I put one in just like that 10 days ago and the road has been rocky. He is still alive though.