Amazing Gig

[GoReefin]

Beautiful Nem!

 

[gig 'em]

Natural light really brings out the reds in this nem. Only a week before this guy is moving to a new home with much more space to grow. It will be exciting to see this nem get BIG

Does the red fluoresce?

 

[OrionN]

Natural light really brings out the reds in this nem. Only a week before this guy is moving to a new home with much more space to grow. It will be exciting to see this nem get BIG

That is a special anemone for sure. Feed him and he will GROW quickly. As big as you want him.

 

[lemonade]

Does the red fluoresce?

Yes, it fluoresces very well. That's actually when I first noticed that this anemone was gaining these red/pink colors. I had just 2 blue plus bulbs running and could see some red hues in a few tents around the outer edge.

That is a special anemone for sure. Feed him and he will GROW quickly. As big as you want him.

New tank is 8'x4'x16" lagoon style. I plan to let this one grow as big as it will get, would love to see it get 20"+

 

[lemonade]

Gig and all the clowns during the move

 

[lemonade]

Last pics of the gig in my DT. After the move the gig went beneath some rock work. I’d guess going from t5 to halide might have shocked it a little. Still very healthy and eating but hard to photograph now. Hopefully it will decide to crawl out to a better viewing spot one of these days

 

[MickeyR]

Thats so nice.

 

[chizerbunoi]

Come on let it grow to 3ft. It's not like your 8 ft tank can't handle it. lol

 

[gig 'em]

Come on let it grow to 3ft. It's not like your 8 ft tank can't handle it. lol

I agree. Feed the crap out of it so it's 2' wide

 

[lemonade]

Come on let it grow to 3ft. It's not like your 8 ft tank can't handle it. lol

I agree. Feed the crap out of it so it's 2' wide

That is my plan. I would love to see this anemone reach its full size since space won’t be a problem

 

[lemonade]

Wasn’t happy with the temp stability, and a few other things in the big tank. So I moved the gig into a display I had set up. Nice to be able to see it again. Colors look really good under the MH

 

[Asagi]

Such a cool one! What was the starting color prior to the morph?

 

[lemonade]

Such a cool one! What was the starting color prior to the morph?

When it first came in the color was mostly green/tan with the purplish color deeper into the tentacles. Only had it for maybe 2-3 weeks when I started seeing the orange and reds under fluorescent lighting

 

[Asagi]

When it first came in the color was mostly green/tan with the purplish color deeper into the tentacles. Only had it for maybe 2-3 weeks when I started seeing the orange and reds under fluorescent lighting

Cool! I’ve seen a lot of gigs but never one like that. You should sell it, LOL

 

[lemonade]

Cool! I’ve seen a lot of gigs but never one like that. You should sell it, LOL

It is a unique one for sure. I don't think I could ever let this one go. I'm a huge fan of S. Gigantea, and to find a rainbowish one like this is like hitting the lotto for me.

 

[lemonade]

Gig is doing in the back up tank. It’s lost a bit of color, which I expected with the much weaker par levels. I plan to move it back under T5s in a tank connected to this one but as long as it’s doing well I’m in no rush.

Pics from today. It’s grown a bit more

 

[OrionN]

Your anemone is head and shoulder above my so call “Rainbow” anemone for sure.

 

[lemonade]

Your anemone is head and shoulder above my so call “Rainbow” anemone for sure.

It’s a cool one! I’d be curious to know if there are others like it in the hobby somewhere.

 

[Taylor t]

Looks great! I haven’t come across these multi color gigs you guys have. A decade ago I went to a wholesaler that got about 30 gigs in at one time. All they had were the typical colors, blue, purple, green, and brown, most were shades of brown. I watched them “acclimate” them. Lol. They dumped them all into a 5 gallon bucket on top of each other, imagine, a 5 gallon bucket filled to the rim with gigs, and turned on a 1/4” line to just dump saltwater on them for an hour overflowing the bucket. Then took that bucket and dumped it into a shallow 10’x6’ shallow tank and where they landed is where they landed. After seeing that, it’s no wonder so many struggled to survive. Some locals might remember Cisco the extortionist lol. I didn’t see any multi color gigs, but maybe some of the brown shades were I don’t know. Some of the brown shades looked yellow from bleaching. Anyways, nice gig lemonade! Yours doesn’t look very common to me.

 

[lemonade]

Looks great! I haven’t come across these multi color gigs you guys have. A decade ago I went to a wholesaler that got about 30 gigs in at one time. All they had were the typical colors, blue, purple, green, and brown, most were shades of brown. I watched them “acclimate” them. Lol. They dumped them all into a 5 gallon bucket on top of each other, imagine, a 5 gallon bucket filled to the rim with gigs, and turned on a 1/4” line to just dump saltwater on them for an hour overflowing the bucket. Then took that bucket and dumped it into a shallow 10’x6’ shallow tank and where they landed is where they landed. After seeing that, it’s no wonder so many struggled to survive. Some locals might remember Cisco the extortionist lol. I didn’t see any multi color gigs, but maybe some of the brown shades were I don’t know. Some of the brown shades looked yellow from bleaching. Anyways, nice gig lemonade! Yours doesn’t look very common to me.

Yeah it's pretty sad how the marine life is handled on it's way to our aquariums.

I have seen a few wild Gigs that had the same pattern as mine with the multi colors/orange band of tents, and one true solid orange/red Gigantea. I've never seen any of these come into the trade, though. I'm sure they have somewhere, at some point. I'm also not sure how much lighting comes into play as I watched this one drastically change from the time I got it and I've watched it lose color under a different light source and less intense lighting.