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08/30/2018, 02:14 PM | #1 |
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Acclimating my New Gig
https://www.dropbox.com/s/143xf2zc57...81621.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/grq0u1qtlh...81626.jpg?dl=0 Mouth nice and tight, very sticky and has been at my LFS for around a month, looks like a surviver.
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Been in the tank about an hour now, doing great.
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Looks good, hope it does well for you.
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Looking good! Great pick!
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One question. If you find a healthy gig do you still use cipro for it before put it into the tank?
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Many gigs will appear to be healthy after they acclimate to the LFS tank, but once you bring it home they can shows signs of infection and will need treatment. I would treat all fresh imports with Cipro.
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08/30/2018, 07:11 PM | #7 |
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Pardon my ignorance, but is a "gig" a giant carpet anemone?
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Looks good, keep us updated
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And at no point did its mouth change from that tight appearance as seen in the photo, even when removed from the bag to bucked for acclimation. Its so sticky, good colour and is huge when fully open. It even attached itself to the bottom of the bucket and was a pig to remove.
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So came home to lights on and the nem is spitting out some zoo I believe. What would you do now?
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Would you put into treatment or give it till over the weekend incase it's still acclimatise to tank?
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Would you put into treatment or give it till over the weekend incase it's still acclimatise to tank? It's doing regularly.
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If the nem has been in the country for a month (4 weeks) plus an additional 3 weeks at the LFS, then it would be quarantined long enough to not have any harmful bacteria. The longest I've seen any gig go without any signs of sickness is about 4 weeks. Your gig could just be adjusting to its new environment, particularly new lighting, and the dead zoox it is expelling is a result of that. It should stop doing this in a few days. However, it should NEVER deflate. None of my gigs ever deflate (in contrast to other nems like BTAs which can deflate frequently). If it deflates, even once, I would remove it and begin treatment.
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No its not deflated at all, it was squirming a little when it was pushing out the zoo almost like it was irratated but never deflated.
This is what it has looked like for the last few hours; https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vh8n3y1bn...11525.mp4?dl=0 Does it look OK?
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It looks fine. My only suggestion would be to give it a lot more flow.
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Gig has been doing great today. No more expelling no tenticals defLatin and it was only a few not completely.
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All is going well;
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Looks good. I would definitely get some more vigorous pulses of flow hitting it.
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He has not moved from that spot since I put him in the tank.
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Looks great. He will be fine as long as no disaster happen to the tank. Most anemones are really sensitive to pH shock so be careful with Kalk. Mix well and add slow.
Nice Green Gigantea. Personally, I never gradually increase my light for anemones or any corals. I just give them the appropriate amount of light full blast from day 1 in DT.
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