My giagantae anemone split in treatment tank

ycnibrc · Oct 14, 2019

Well first of all im Sps guru but a noob in anemone. Recently I bought a green giagantae anomone and put in my main display. After a three days it look deflated so I ask my reefing friend Tony and pm OrionN regarding treating it. So I follow the procedure and do 10g fresh saltwater with 250g Cipro in a 10g tank with small power head n heater. This morning to my surprise I have 2 anemone in the treatment tank so I start pm and text to all my friends and they all say giagantae don't split in captivity. Well picture say better than 1000 words.

Day 1

Day 2

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Day 3

And here is a video

I'm going to keep doing the treatment and monitoring for the next 11 days to complete the process and hoping that I can keep both anemones survive.

Please give input cause I have no clue about anemone. This is my main display

bknope · Oct 14, 2019

Any pictures of the mouths?

ycnibrc · Oct 14, 2019

bknope said:
Any pictures of the mouths?

The video should show each anemone with its own mouth. This picture show the seperate foot

OrionN · Oct 14, 2019

Please keep this well documented. This is the first spontaneous splitting of Gigantea that I know about. There have been other people chopping in two, most died but one or two survived.
Hope your will do well, both of them.
I would get clear picture of the column so there would be no doubt that this is a Gigatnea.

ycnibrc · Oct 14, 2019

OrionN said:
Please keep this well documented. This is the first spontaneous splitting of Gigantea that I know about. There have been other people chopping in two, most died but one or two survived.
Hope your will do well, both of them.
I would get clear picture of the column so there would be no doubt that this is a Gigatnea.

Will do I just don't want to disturb it but when I change water tonight I will take more pictures

D-Nak · Oct 15, 2019

Congrats! This is a first. And a big one at that.

If you are able, I would love to see how the two mouths are forming. If they are open, I would like to know if the siphonoglyphs are exposed and where they are located.

The forced split gigantea that appeared a few years ago had scars on the column, and the siphonoglyphs were not fully formed.

Jon Fishman · Oct 15, 2019

If you ever want to ship one..... I’m your huckleberry

Taylor t · Oct 15, 2019

Document for sure. I have a few that were clearly cut, the mouths were on the edge of the disk and it was clear in person that it was cut. It took a few weeks to close up and for the mouth to move to the center. It’s interesting that the mouth of yours looks to already have centered a bit. Today there’s no evidence of a cut with any of mine, other than pics from a few years ago.

What kind of time frame are you talking about? Was yours a single anemone only a few days ago? If so, that’s VERY interesting! Best of luck, keep the pictures coming!

ycnibrc · Oct 15, 2019

Taylor t said:
Document for sure. I have a few that were clearly cut, the mouths were on the edge of the disk and it was clear in person that it was cut. It took a few weeks to close up and for the mouth to move to the center. It’s interesting that the mouth of yours looks to already have centered a bit. Today there’s no evidence of a cut with any of mine, other than pics from a few years ago.

What kind of time frame are you talking about? Was yours a single anemone only a few days ago? If so, that’s VERY interesting! Best of luck, keep the pictures coming!

I bought last wed it was a nice healthy one close mouth , sticky to the touch put in the display by sat I saw it deflated so I ask orionN and start the Cipro treatment. The second day is normal and the third day in the morning I saw look like 2 anemone so I ask my friend and he said giagantae don't split so here I am.

ycnibrc · Oct 15, 2019

Some updates pictures today. I don't want to disturb it too much. I try to take the pic of the foot it's only have a little left attach between the 2 pieces.

ycnibrc · Oct 15, 2019

The first picture is the mouth of the right side anemone

ycnibrc · Oct 16, 2019

Look like it's almost there days 5

OrionN · Oct 16, 2019

Why not get a picture through the side of the tank with possible something to lift the oral plate a little, if needed, so we can clearly see the column and the foot?

ycnibrc · Oct 16, 2019

Oh I block all the side cause I heard light decrease the strength of Cipro. I'm pretty sure it's giagantae the flesh is very soft not hard like hadoni. Tenacle is sticky but not glue like hadoni and the tenacle is long

ycnibrc · Oct 16, 2019

Latest picture before water change tonight

c.poindexter · Oct 16, 2019

That is awesome. Nice looking tank BTW.

D-Nak · Oct 16, 2019

Wow, this is so interesting. I still don't know what I'm seeing. It almost appears as if the mouth is connecting the two, as it looks like the syphonoglyphs are exposed, while at the same time it looks like each side as a fully formed mouth. This species never ceases to amaze me.

Please keep updating us. And great work with the QT process. I know it's a lot of handle, but definitely worth it in the end.

Do you have any photos of when you first added it to your main display, prior to treatment? I'm curious to see if there are any signs of splitting while in the DT. Could it be possible that the transfer from display to QT tank caused a tear or rip that spurred the split?