Baby gig

[Taylor t]

I saw this a couple days ago. It was stuck in the tentacles of one of my purple gigs. The disk color doesn’t show up very well, but is purple and the foot is tan. Same coloring as the gig I sucked it out of. They seem to need specialized care this small. One day I hope to try to get one to grow. The flow in the tank is way too high for them this small. Second pic shows a little of the purple color the best.

 

[RamsReef]

Very cool

 

[reef lover]

Cant wait to see it grow up!

 

[dylana407]

What's your plan to raise it?

 

[Taylor t]

Thanks guys.

My plan in to invent more time in a day. Lol.

A 10 gallon drilled and tied to the main system sump with a very fine sponge for the overflow, so I can keep it isolated and adjust things, more control. Lower flow mainly, with light control. Hopefully in spring or summer this happens. When I find them I’m always pressed for time, and I’m not set up to care for them. I need a tank tied to the same sump so when I find then I can separate them and walk away if needed and come back later and still be able to find them.

 

[davocean]

Very cool, I believe this is what they call "budding"

Boy it sure would be cool if you could actually raise them and sell as established no treatment necessary gigs!

Cool pics!

 

[Taylor t]

Thanks! I can’t help but think I’m not the only one that this happens with. My gut thinks they need low flow when small and anyone with multiple gigs typically has higher flow. I don’t think they have s chance to “land” in my tank with such high flow. Time and trial will tell.

 

[dylana407]

How about keeping it in a small acclimation box with fine nest in a low flow area of the main tank?

 

[Taylor t]

How about keeping it in a small acclimation box with fine nest in a low flow area of the main tank?

I tried that. Couple times. They can melt in hours. I’m a control freak. I need more control over the flow and light, keeping them penned up doesn’t work, too close to lights and too low flow. They turn to a slime ball in hours. Not enough water turn over. I think the best chance is to keep a 10 gallon plumbed into the sump, fed with a little Eheim I’ve got so I can throttle it, wrap the Eheim in the sump in panty hose to prevent pods and critters and detritus into the 10 gallon. Keep a very fine sponge over the overflow, and keep it dark until I get a victim. Then the water is ready matched and waiting, all the adjustments needed are light flow and attach point.

 

[Taylor t]

I tried to plant the one above on a rock in s tiny hole. Main tank. Half hour later I watched a copod pull it out, and it looked like it started snacking on its foot a couple minutes, but when it touched the purple disk, the copod quickly chucked it into the water column where the pumps sent it hopelessly tumbling around. I’m not sure of what to make of that, I don’t think they would really eat anemones, but I don’t want anything I can see in the 10 gallon with them.

 

[Taylor t]

Some pictures I took to share:

1)So here’s a FTS today

2)A purple gig that has had a bubble out its mouth since the move. I lifted it up out of the water gave up fully inflated and it looked like it was about to pop. Hasn’t gone back in yet...

3)green gig that has the same fluorescent glow as the little ones I found a few days ago. I found a few Saturday and Sunday.

the rest are of little green blobs that I caught floating in the water column. Under blue lights the flouresce the same green as the big green gig. No other corals in the tank besides leather and couple mushrooms. I poked little tiny holes in the side of the plastic and used a magnet to hang it. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner. The flow hammers the side of the container and only lets a tiny stream in flo flow. I watched my fox face hunt them down and eat them. Maybe because it’s green? These things are small, and don’t have a sticky foot, they are tumble weeds. But they slowly go from an oval to a circle, they are not plant. I have 6 of them. Wish me luck.

This last picture is from about 6 hours ago.

 

[dylana407]

How many are there?

 

[Taylor t]

I found 5 on Saturday, lost one by Sunday, found 2 more on Sunday, and found another last night, but I’m not certain the one I found last night is one yet, didn’t have the flouresce glow like the others. I fought my fox face for one and lost.

So I’ve got 6 since Sunday, maybe 7 but need to see what the one I found last night looks like in the next day or two. They seem to come in waves. I caught them about 1/2 hour apart from each other. I’m kicking myself for tossing the little purple in my sump unprotected last month. It was double size and had a defined foot and disk shape. The purple I found attached to the tip of the purple bubble blower, all the greens I found floating. A year ago I sucked them right through the tips of the purple one. I haven’t had time to play with them the past couple years, but I’m starting to get more play time now.

 

[Taylor t]

4 of them I found on Saturday lost most of their green glow by Monday from being in the sump Saturday, then Sunday at the bottom of the tank in a coveted Pyrex, then Sunday I moved them to the container they’re in now, and yesterday their glow came back after only one day of losing it, so I’m feeling good about this plastic container being a good home for them for a little while.

 

[dbraun15]

Congrats...looking forward to seeing some progress! Tank looks great!

 

[Taylor t]

Thanks. I’ll let you guys know how this goes. Fun for me!

 

[Taylor t]

Sorry guys. I got too excited and jumped the gun, I shouldn’t have posted so soon. Yesterday there were 2 left, today none. They turn into white dots and then disappear. I got super excited when I saw the green glow matching the nem, I don’t have anything else with this color in the tank so I’m not sure where they came from, or they weren’t babies. Sorry for my premature excitement.

 

[dylana407]

Sorry guys. I got too excited and jumped the gun, I shouldn’t have posted so soon. Yesterday there were 2 left, today none. They turn into white dots and then disappear. I got super excited when I saw the green glow matching the nem, I don’t have anything else with this color in the tank so I’m not sure where they came from, or they weren’t babies. Sorry for my premature excitement.

So now you have nothing?

 

[Taylor t]

Nothing. I won’t pepper the board with my trials, if I get something that’s no mistaking, I’ll post it. I’m disappointed too.

But I did suck an “egg” through the tip of a purple one about a half hour ago, so I’m certain if this one lasts longer than a week, I know what it is. No color, just flops from oval to round. It’s like hunting, not all tips have them, but a few do. I’ve done this before with the same result. Don’t expect much from this either, I’m just playing with them. They melt over a week or less of time. I can’t beleive with all the people with multiple gigs in a tank, that not one person has been able to have them multiply successfully in captivity. I suspect, I’m not sure, but suspect they come out the tip. One day someone will figure this out I hope, so we know what to look for when trying.

 

[stevenlu]

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