Gig ‘ems Grand Gigantea Gathering

[this is me]

Back of the line sir!

Okay. Cut me half of yours when you get it.

 

[FarmerTy]

Okay. Cut me half of yours when you get it.

Deal! Grand baby coming up!

 

[this is me]

Double post

 

[this is me]

@gig 'em
No pressure!

 

[gig 'em]

@gig 'em
No pressure!

Lol. Y'all are all way too cavalier about this. I need to practice cutting a few more gigs until I'm confident enough to even consider cutting the red. If this one is lost it's essentially lost to the hobby as far as I know. But hopefully one day so we can start spreading it through the hobby.

 

[this is me]

Lol. Y'all are all way too cavalier about this. I need to practice cutting a few more gigs until I'm confident enough to even consider cutting the red. If this one is lost it's essentially lost to the hobby as far as I know. But hopefully one day so we can start spreading it through the hobby.

You are a trailblazer.
I have two very large gigs since 2015 and they're now 24-30". I can't imagine having the balls to cut them.
Also, if gigs are more readily available, it would make the cutting experiment easier to try. However, finding a gig nowadays is like hunting for bigfoot.

 

[gig 'em]

You are a trailblazer.
I have two very large gigs since 2015 and they're now 24-30". I can't imagine having the balls to cut them.
Also, if gigs are more readily available, it would make the cutting experiment easier to try. However, finding a gig nowadays is like hunting for bigfoot.

It’s definitely easier to cut smaller ones. A work around is making them smaller through light deprivation. It’s not an ideal method and somewhat cruel, but I’ve noticed that when gigs are shaded they eventually shrink. You can turn a huge one into a smaller one through that and then have an easier time cutting it and then feeding the clones until they’re large again. Just a thought…

 

[this is me]

I’m not doing it. Lol

 

[gig 'em]

I’m not doing it. Lol

Well I have some massive purple gigs. I can definitely give it a go and see how it turns out

 

[sprungson]

Change your username to gig god.

 

[Purpletang92]

Lol. Y'all are all way too cavalier about this. I need to practice cutting a few more gigs until I'm confident enough to even consider cutting the red. If this one is lost it's essentially lost to the hobby as far as I know. But hopefully one day so we can start spreading it through the hobby.

I wouldn’t say lost out of the hobby for good…I have a red gig! a baby one at that I’ve been nursing it back to health for the last 8 months finally showing some zoo repopulation.

 

[sprungson]

I wouldn’t say lost out of the hobby for good…I have a red gig! a baby one at that I’ve been nursing it back to health for the last 8 months finally showing some zoo repopulation.

Pics? I literally have only seen one red gig. Be good to see more!

 

[Purpletang92]

Pics? I literally have only seen one red gig. Be good to see more!

Still a LONG way to go but definitely recovering

 

[sprungson]

Still a LONG way to go but definitely recovering

Nice looks interesting. Very unique. How do you know it's a gig and not haddoni?

 

[Purpletang92]

Nice looks interesting. Very unique. How do you know it's a gig and not haddoni?

I’ll try to get a top down view but the tentacle placement is different from haddoni plus the tips are starting to get a point. It also has two folds in the mouth, It’s hard to tell because it’s bleached but I’ll start a new thread up about it soon don’t want to hijack

 

[gig 'em]

I wouldn’t say lost out of the hobby for good…I have a red gig! a baby one at that I’ve been nursing it back to health for the last 8 months finally showing some zoo repopulation.

Let’s see some more pics! Any more photos from before it was bleached out and shrunk to the size of a mushroom?

 

[gig 'em]

@Purpletang92 The more I look at the last photo the more it reminds me of a bleached out RBTA. Then again it appears to have multiple points on the tentacles, which is weird and makes me think it’s something else entirely. Do you have a picture of it when it was in good health?

 

[gig 'em]

Could it be a red St. Thomas mushroom? It seems to have some of those weird multiple pointed tentacles.

 

[Purpletang92]

No not a mushroom lol definitely has a foot and no I don’t have a picture of it in good health , I received it in bad shape they are extremely hard to keep alive it had shrunk down to the size of a penny

 

[Purpletang92]

In the last photo you can see brown starting to come in meaning they the zoo is finally starting to repopulate after 8 long months I almost gave up