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06-15-2008, 12:55 AM
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Gigantea update and a few observations
Good evening.
We'll we are almost at the 2 week mark and so far all is good. Foot firmly attached,sticky and eats like a champ.Only deflats about a day after eating to expell waste and gets a little smaller when the lights are off and appears to be getting back some Zooenthelle. But i have observed some interesting things that i am not sure what to think of. This anemone has 2 mouths. I have attched pics. In the first pic you can see the little mouth below the large one and in the second pic the clown is feeding it. What does anybody think of this....TONY?????  And he also has some tentacles growing out the back coloumn. Pic 3. Otherwise all is we'll.    
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180 gallon SPS Dominated reef, Reeflo Orca 200 skimmer,Proline Zeovit reactor,3 250 watt halides in lumenarc mini reflectors and 2 vortecs for flow Numerous corals,2 purple tangs,choclate mimic tang,Foxface,Solar wrasse,male and female lubbocks wrasse,hoevens wrasse,Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse,Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse,yellow wrasse,3 Yellowstripe Anthias,True percand S.Gigantea anemone 
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06-15-2008, 01:04 AM
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Awesome pictures, maybe it's getting ready to split? I've heard carpets split less but does that mean they don't split at all?
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06-15-2008, 01:08 AM
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After all the reading i have done i have yet to see anything about Gigantea's splitting. So i am unsure of what is going on.
Whatever it is it doesn't seem to be affecting it in any other way other than getting some extra food
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180 gallon SPS Dominated reef, Reeflo Orca 200 skimmer,Proline Zeovit reactor,3 250 watt halides in lumenarc mini reflectors and 2 vortecs for flow Numerous corals,2 purple tangs,choclate mimic tang,Foxface,Solar wrasse,male and female lubbocks wrasse,hoevens wrasse,Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse,Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse,yellow wrasse,3 Yellowstripe Anthias,True percand S.Gigantea anemone
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06-15-2008, 01:10 AM
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Carpets (at least neither haddoni nor gigangtea) don't really split *per se*. I suspect they might split as a result of trauma. Occasionally (but rarely) they do also bud off or have two mouths. I've never heard of either case amounting to anything though in captivity. In this case you seem to have both budding and two mouths. Very interesting, and I suspect somewhat one of a kind! For now I would not assume it means anything either good or bad, just continue the course and see what comes of it. Maybe you'll grow a new anemone
But equally likely it could just stay that way.Two weeks is a first milestone. I sort of look at these things as "made it the first week" .. "made it the first two weeks" .. "made it the first month." Very good news!!
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06-15-2008, 01:24 AM
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I figured he was just "Special"...lol
I don't really care just as long as it makes it another 2 weeks. And yes it just gives me something interesting to keep an eye on and see how it progresses or if like you said Tony it does anything at all. Just happy that it has settled in a spot and seems happy. Do yours Tony shrink up abit at night? Not alot but it does get a little smaller.
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180 gallon SPS Dominated reef, Reeflo Orca 200 skimmer,Proline Zeovit reactor,3 250 watt halides in lumenarc mini reflectors and 2 vortecs for flow Numerous corals,2 purple tangs,choclate mimic tang,Foxface,Solar wrasse,male and female lubbocks wrasse,hoevens wrasse,Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse,Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse,yellow wrasse,3 Yellowstripe Anthias,True percand S.Gigantea anemone
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06-15-2008, 05:53 AM
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Mine do shrink up a bit after lights-out. I liken it to more like they expand more during the day to get more surface area available for photosynthesis, and once it's night they relax a little (rather than thinking of it as shrinkage).
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06-15-2008, 06:28 AM
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Okay good one less thing to stress about
Now how come when i look at your pics of your new one and you old ones there tentacles seem so long compared to mine. Someone on RC mentioned that awhile back as we'll. Should i try to feed him more? More flow?I added more flow and his mouth seemed to open more and he moved about an inch back to less turbulent flow...He is still getting a fair amount but not as much as i truly think he needs...It is blowing up the oral disk occasionally and moving his tentacles at all times... Would the flow contribute to tentacle length or no?
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180 gallon SPS Dominated reef, Reeflo Orca 200 skimmer,Proline Zeovit reactor,3 250 watt halides in lumenarc mini reflectors and 2 vortecs for flow Numerous corals,2 purple tangs,choclate mimic tang,Foxface,Solar wrasse,male and female lubbocks wrasse,hoevens wrasse,Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse,Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse,yellow wrasse,3 Yellowstripe Anthias,True percand S.Gigantea anemone
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