Hi,
Been out of the game for a while but have kept gigs and ritteri succesfully in the past. Really missed my purple gig, which did great until I went out of town and found it in an mp60 several years ago. My clowns have been living in a colony of RBTAs so I thought I'd get them a present.
In my experience and I think many people's experience, getting a good specimen is key.
I tried to find one locally to no avail and thanks to the forum, got one from one of our members.
Bright blue, small and treated and then kept for several months.
Came perfectly packaged and after some drip acclimation (and finding out that my apex salinity probe was off), settled in nicely on a rock with a good amount of flow. Doing great now 5 days out, hoping it'll continue to thrive and grow. A few pics and video.
Right when it came in:
Yesterday, started to get to full size
Little video, pardon the audio commentary from my kids.
I apologize for my terrible photo skills. Need to brush up. The blue is brighter in person.
Big shout out to @Asagi. He is the gig whisperer. So many nice gigs available and definitely has a way with a difficult species. I was torn between this one and really nice green and purple specimens that he had.
Been out of the game for a while but have kept gigs and ritteri succesfully in the past. Really missed my purple gig, which did great until I went out of town and found it in an mp60 several years ago. My clowns have been living in a colony of RBTAs so I thought I'd get them a present.
In my experience and I think many people's experience, getting a good specimen is key.
I tried to find one locally to no avail and thanks to the forum, got one from one of our members.
Bright blue, small and treated and then kept for several months.
Came perfectly packaged and after some drip acclimation (and finding out that my apex salinity probe was off), settled in nicely on a rock with a good amount of flow. Doing great now 5 days out, hoping it'll continue to thrive and grow. A few pics and video.
Right when it came in:
Yesterday, started to get to full size
Little video, pardon the audio commentary from my kids.
I apologize for my terrible photo skills. Need to brush up. The blue is brighter in person.
Big shout out to @Asagi. He is the gig whisperer. So many nice gigs available and definitely has a way with a difficult species. I was torn between this one and really nice green and purple specimens that he had.