anemone coloration, dyed or real? pic included
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phender
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The H. crispa in the background is dyed, but the gigantea looks natural. Giganteas naturally have color on only the tips of their tentacles, like that one seems to have. Its is pretty hard to dye just parts of the anemone without doing the whole thing.
Unfortunately, like Marina said, don't ever buy a gigantea out of a tank with others that are dying, no matter how good it looks(and it doesn't look that great). I doubt it will be alive in a week.
Unfortunately, like Marina said, don't ever buy a gigantea out of a tank with others that are dying, no matter how good it looks(and it doesn't look that great). I doubt it will be alive in a week.
BonsaiNut
Premium Member
All the giganteas look true color. They don't look very good atm, but I have seen some come back from worse shape IF you have perfect conditions. The "yellow" one looks the best at this time. I agree that it is a very iffy proposition regardless. At least they aren't bleached. How long have they been in that tank?
ricordiaking
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If your going to get any of them get the yellow/green, that one looks the healthiest.
Jadran
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hi there and thx for your replies 
Honestly I don't know how long they are in custody already, not to long I guess.. two weeks max.. These anemones are hard to find over here, and I passed the word about them so I assume to be alarmed about them earlier if they were availible.. They were brought to shop for me to sinlgle one out, and as soon as guy called me I came over and picked one.. ( blue one on top of purple, did my best to choose wisely, based on gignatea infos here at RC, yellow one shocked me but I was usure about it, thought it might be half bleached or dyed) ) I've been seeing to get one such carpet for some time now, and after failure to score established aquarium specimen ( ren into the green and brown animals.. but didn't like them) had no chice but to pull some contacts with wholesale and to take my chances with fresh import..
As some of you noticed , I'm in some trouble with blue newcomer
( and now when I got your attention might be a good idea to refresh that topic
:lol: )
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=820235
Have it for 6 days now, and its doing ... hmm.. ok , trying to flush itself and get its way to survive and acclimatize to aquarium life I guess.. still deflating/inflating but I am trying to be cautiously optimistic about it.. Looks much better now, its offcourse still early to say (after 6 days
) but if I could rely on my bleached, wandering magnifica success story hope to get away with it.. Hope to pull through first 2-3 months , then I'll be on the safe side... (I hope..)
this is how its look s now
Tony, there is enough of flow in aquarium (provided by 2x tunze 6100) honestly dont know about the oxygen depletion... wil look into it) Lighting might be the issue , I dumped it under 400w, and provided shipping and all darkness that it was living with in last weeks might came as a shock to it.. Most of its deflated time was whlie MH was on...?? dunno about the origin, I'll look into it and inform you ( provided we could taker a dealer for real, there is always fun in dealer - customer relationship..)
thats about it... more or less. ideas and opinions are always welcome..
Honestly I don't know how long they are in custody already, not to long I guess.. two weeks max.. These anemones are hard to find over here, and I passed the word about them so I assume to be alarmed about them earlier if they were availible.. They were brought to shop for me to sinlgle one out, and as soon as guy called me I came over and picked one.. ( blue one on top of purple, did my best to choose wisely, based on gignatea infos here at RC, yellow one shocked me but I was usure about it, thought it might be half bleached or dyed) ) I've been seeing to get one such carpet for some time now, and after failure to score established aquarium specimen ( ren into the green and brown animals.. but didn't like them) had no chice but to pull some contacts with wholesale and to take my chances with fresh import..As some of you noticed , I'm in some trouble with blue newcomer
( and now when I got your attention might be a good idea to refresh that topic
:lol: )http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=820235
Have it for 6 days now, and its doing ... hmm.. ok , trying to flush itself and get its way to survive and acclimatize to aquarium life I guess.. still deflating/inflating but I am trying to be cautiously optimistic about it.. Looks much better now, its offcourse still early to say (after 6 days
) but if I could rely on my bleached, wandering magnifica success story hope to get away with it.. Hope to pull through first 2-3 months , then I'll be on the safe side... (I hope..) this is how its look s now
Tony, there is enough of flow in aquarium (provided by 2x tunze 6100) honestly dont know about the oxygen depletion... wil look into it) Lighting might be the issue , I dumped it under 400w, and provided shipping and all darkness that it was living with in last weeks might came as a shock to it.. Most of its deflated time was whlie MH was on...?? dunno about the origin, I'll look into it and inform you ( provided we could taker a dealer for real, there is always fun in dealer - customer relationship..)
thats about it... more or less. ideas and opinions are always welcome..
phender
Active member
The pics of the mouth in your other thread look very good.
Sounds like you have good flow and great light. Keep your fingers crossed and keep feeding him.
Their is nothing you can do that you are not already doing, but I would feel better about him if he wasn't quite so flaccid. When they are feeling really good giganteas tend to hold themselves "tighter" and don't mold themselves to the substrate as much yours seems to be doing.
Its a beautiful anemone, I wish you the best of luck.
Sounds like you have good flow and great light. Keep your fingers crossed and keep feeding him.
Their is nothing you can do that you are not already doing, but I would feel better about him if he wasn't quite so flaccid. When they are feeling really good giganteas tend to hold themselves "tighter" and don't mold themselves to the substrate as much yours seems to be doing.
Its a beautiful anemone, I wish you the best of luck.
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