S. gigantea zoo transplant?

[skyrne_isk]

And I caught this happening just a few minutes ago. The green carpet is the same one mentioned throughout this thread - it tends to get beat down on quite bit when these two get down to business. They won't let any of the snails or CUC around any of their turf. The female tail slaps all the sand to make a big mound by the carpet (I've given up trying to figure that out )

[maxxII]

Originally Posted by tufacody

Bleached nems rarely recover, but it is possible.

You're incorrect.

I've been able to recover several bleached nems to include a seriously bleached H.magnifica.

Ensure the water parameters are stable and where they need to be.
Ensure the environment the anemone is located in is what it needs to flourish.
Ensure the anemone is getting fed small amounts of food regularly.
Ensure the anemone is not being kept with fish.

The anemone lost its Zoox, therefore it has no way of providing nutrients for itself and must be fed regularly to supplement.

Small regular feedings 2-3 times a week will aid in its recovery, until it regains its zoox. Overfeeding will cause problems as the anemone will not be able to digest food items too large or too numerous, and will regurgitate them, fouling the water.

Fish, (especially clowns) will steal food from the anemone and cause it to waste precious amounts of energy. The anemone tries to engulf the food and the fish steals the food, the anemone has just wasted energy trying to eat.

Here is a thread where I detailed what I went through with my most recent H.magnifica.

Heteractis Magnifica, tell me some success stories

[maxxII]

Need to apologize. I hadnt realized that Tufacody's post I quoted above was from 2009.
Skyrne Isk,

Congrats on your continued success with your gigantea anemones.

Nick

[skyrne_isk]

Originally Posted by maxxII

Need to apologize. I hadnt realized that Tufacody's post I quoted above was from 2009.
Skyrne Isk,

Congrats on your continued success with your gigantea anemones.

Nick

No worries and thank you for the kind words, Nick. Bound to happen when old threads are dug up and given an update. Always have appreciated the input of other skilled keepers of gigs to keep me going.

Here it is as it looked today, still not attaching the foot and will not eat anything but it looks to be headed in the right direction. For those who this might help: the LFS had this almost .002 SG higher than my tank - the bag water was measured at 1.028. I made the decision to let the tank's SG rise .001 to 1.026 over the course of the last day to help mitigate any hydrostatic differences between their water and mine (it had been in their tank 48 hours). This is about a two gallon drop in freshwater for me. The plan will be to make this difference back up between now and Monday.

[OrionN]

I know that this is an old thread but very interesting. So TTT

[OrionN]

I got this donor green Gigantea/Haddoni hybrid from skyrne_isk a few years ago. Here he is this AM

[skyrne_isk]

You can really see the repaired tissue here, the nub tentacles are already emerging from the oral disk that was frayed 48 hours earlier:


And here:


Some of the damage to the interior:


This really gives you a feel for how much tissue is gone, remember the anemone used to be round.....it is not for the time being.


Will keep updates coming. (fingers crossed)[/QUOTE]



Hey, everyone!

Thought I would post as I am closing in on the 10 year mark of this thread and thought I would update it

Here is the carpet that got blendered all those years ago - still kicking.


Can you see both the clowns in this one? Look hard.


Of the carpets I have had in this thread, the blue succumbed to a bacterial infection, the multicolor I still have downstairs in the QT system, and the green one I didn't sell to Minh (how's that one still doing?) I just posted a picture of. I don't recall when exactly I got the original green one, but it was some months before I tried to transplant the zoo to the blue carpet - which has got to make the green carpet a decade old! The resident clowns lay eggs every couple weeks (always on a Sunday afternoon, dunno why that is but it is) and I don't ever raise the fry. But it's been attached to the same crusty rock now for ages. It's the dirtiest rock in the tank (mostly because the clowns don't let anything come close enough to clean it

The multicolor carpet in this thread I got some time later after the green gig, and over the years it has come down with a bacterial infection a couple times. But never the green one. It seems like something goes on with the municipal water supply every so often that the RO/DI doesn't clean up - or the dirtier QT tank periodically goes through something I don't understand. In these instances, I cannot say enough about Ciprofloxacin. It definitely wasn't around when I started trying out carpets. Wish it had been.

I definitely run my tanks "dirtier" and think that carpets tolerate these conditions just fine. Temp is usually 78-79. These days I change 10% every two weeks, but over the years there has definitely been months where water didn't get changed. And definitely luck plays a factor - I've not had any heaters melt down or pumps corrode out and poison the tank the green carpet is in. This has definitely happened to other tanks I have run, however.

No way would I still have these carpets and fish without all the knowledge and support of all the good people on this site. Just wanted to share. I will probably just keep posting here as we go along.

Thanks for reading!

[skyrne_isk]

If a mod or someone could help resize these images...would help a lot!

[OrionN]

The green "donor" one is still doing great. He looks like a Gigantea/Haddoni hybrid.
If you want, I can shrink pour pictures and email it to you. Then you can load it to your server where you keep the picture and replace the larger ones in this thread.

[mnchartier]

Originally Posted by skyrne_isk

If a mod or someone could help resize these images...would help a lot!

When using imgur you can specify the size of the image you want displayed by adding l for large, h for huge right before the .file type in the link. So example below

Large:
https://i.imgur.com/hdp0BZHl.jpg notice the lower case l before the .jpg, just add that l when posting pictures from imgur and you'll get the below.