Gig ‘ems Anemone Dedicated Tank
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gig 'em
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Hey Steven, mags are glutens for flow, they like their tentacles being pushed around by the current. What you have there is fine and I can see it enjoying even more flow if it was provided for it. The trick is keeping strong variable flow towards the tentacles and not just blasting water at the foot of the anemone.
kinetic
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Nems look great. How big is that clam?
In my experience, small clams just can't sustain just through photosynthesis, and need a ton of stuff to filter through. I've had the best experience with clams smaller than 5" to feed manually. My successes were when I had the clams in bowl with no lid, where the lip of the bowl was above the mantel, and if it ended up staying put there, I would lift the bowl out and then just dose it with a ton of food to filter through. Then I would put it back in the tank. I found that doing this at least twice a week had really great results. Ever since then, I just got much larger clams.
My tanks were also very low nutrient, with tons of filtration, so that might have been a very unique problem for my specific tank.
Anyway, goodluck! Just thought I'd mention that especially since the photo makes the clam look on the smaller side.
In my experience, small clams just can't sustain just through photosynthesis, and need a ton of stuff to filter through. I've had the best experience with clams smaller than 5" to feed manually. My successes were when I had the clams in bowl with no lid, where the lip of the bowl was above the mantel, and if it ended up staying put there, I would lift the bowl out and then just dose it with a ton of food to filter through. Then I would put it back in the tank. I found that doing this at least twice a week had really great results. Ever since then, I just got much larger clams.
My tanks were also very low nutrient, with tons of filtration, so that might have been a very unique problem for my specific tank.
Anyway, goodluck! Just thought I'd mention that especially since the photo makes the clam look on the smaller side.
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gig 'em
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Yeah I hear you, I have been feeding the clam a lot with this method. It’s in a bowl so I prop it up in the tank so the surface of the bowl is level with the surface of the tank to get a little water exchange over time. I then let it sit with phyto for an hour or two.
Picture for reference:
I haven’t yet seen any new mantle growth. I’ll feel much better once I see it actively growing
Top down shot [emoji7]
bknope
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Yeah I hear you, I have been feeding the clam a lot with this method. It’s in a bowl so I prop it up in the tank so the surface of the bowl is level with the surface of the tank to get a little water exchange over time. I then let it sit with phyto for an hour or two.
Picture for reference:
I haven’t yet seen any new mantle growth. I’ll feel much better once I see it actively growing
Top down shot [emoji7]
This is so beautiful! Where did you get it?
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gig 'em
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The clam or the anemones? The clam came from DD and the anemones came from my LFS.
bknope
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That mag! Wow very nice find. Did you have to cipro?
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gig 'em
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I didn’t have to, but with such a delicate species I did prophylactically to be safe.
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gig 'em
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Super exciting news y’all! I finally got my hands on one of my most coveted anemones of all time. My LFS some how got its hands on a small baby blue gigantea anemone and I was able to trade in for it. Words can’t describe how ecstatic I am about this acquisition! I can’t wait for it to color up and grow. [emoji7]
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ajanicki10
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Well I think it’s official, I’m addicted...
Where do you find all these great specimens? I have only seen one or maybe two in my five years of reefing.
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gig 'em
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Me to to be honest. It’s easier to buy high end BTAs these days than decently colored large anemones. The two gigs I recently acquired was just dumb luck. Someone traded the blue gig into my LFS and I happened to be there before it was purchased and this new green gig I bought from Aquatic Collection when I saw their Facebook post. I’m constantly looking for these guys so whenever I see one available, I immediately jump on it.
Captain Quint
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Super exciting news y’all! I finally got my hands on one of my most coveted anemones of all time. My LFS some how got its hands on a small baby blue gigantea anemone and I was able to trade in for it. Words can’t describe how ecstatic I am about this acquisition! I can’t wait for it to color up and grow. [emoji7]
Awesome score gig 'em! That would be one heck of nice LFS to go to.
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Luck* to be honest. Didn’t meant to say me haha
Sharkbate
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I have a Nem Nano system , it has RBTA a plenty two green bubble tips a mini maxi and two Mags one being a split just recently . All seem to do fine together and are always in close proximity and even touching . My pair of mixed clowns are in heaven ..... I run carbon in a HOB skimmer and do weekly water changes .....
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