Unbelievable! Look at this, it's almost disgusting!

[Mik_101]

MAn those are just breth taking.

[EmilyB]

Originally Posted by howdy20012002

Just so you know, I have brought in all of these colours and types in the past and can still probably get them.
So yeah, If you want one, LMK
thanks
Neal

Okay, I want one.

[howdy20012002]

I think that the blue ones' were around a 100.00, the purple about 150.00 and the bright green about 75.00
but they were huge..a couple I had were about a foot across.
It will all depend if my supplier has them when I place the order
Neal

[Delphinus]

Well .. there was a time you couldn't get them. I'm glad that Canadian vendors have found suppliers willing to send us this stuff because there was a time we only got whatever didn't get snapped up by the stores down south.

Neal, one of these days I'm gonna come knocking on your door for a purple ...

[Der_Iron_Chef]

I'm curious....would a Tek HOT5 8x39w fixture be enough to keep one of these beauties healthy?

[Delphinus]

IMO it's more about adequate water movement and gas exchange, of course lighting is important too. But an 8 lamp T5 unit is going to be fairly bright ... I don't see it being a limiting factor.

Unfortunately gigantea has a terrible track record for melting within the first week or two, it seems they are very prone to picking up bacterial or other kind of infection during collection/shipping/retail. Nobody really understands why this is. If you can get them past the first month though they're pretty hardy. These anemones are my favourite species, they just look cool in my opinion, although haddoni's can come in brighter colours (nothing can compare to a crimson red haddoni). But haddoni's get larger, and are prone to eating fish, whereas gigantea's are better behaved in this regard.