Anybody seen a white rock flower

idunno

idunno

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I purchased this from a lfs. He said it was a Haitian blue anemone. After removing it from his actinic lighting it was white. It is not transparent. Not sure if its bleached or White. He loves the light. It shrinks up a bit at lights out, opens back up at lights on. Eats krill like a pig. Seems very healthy.

Yes I am waging war against HA.




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honestly I have never seen an all white one, but i do have several with all white bodies and yellow, red ,green, and orrange tentacles. But As far as yours it doesnt look bleached as it looks as it never had any pigmant to start just keep a eye on it and feed it well, You might have a great find on your hands there.
 
Good grief that is gorgeous!!! I saw a pic of one not too long ago and have tried to find one ever since. May I ask where you found it? Congrats on a beautiful nem!
 
Honestly I could be wrong but im pretty sure there are no white anemones. I have seen some off white anemones that are kinda a creamy color. Im pretty sure its bleached. Anyways its a beatiful specimen and I hope it does well.
 
It is bleached. Pretty bad too. These are tough little anemones, so hopefully it can recover. I had one bleach after about 24 hours in 40 degree water with no water movement, and it recovered.
 
These are not mine. I do have the red and white but not the all white. I really don't think that nem is bleached.

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Thanks for the quick responses freinds. I got it from a lfs in Lake geneva WI. Kens animal house. You should check out his reef tank. The stalk on his leather coral. It is as thick as my arm. His hammer is the size of a volley ball.
 
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The two anemome is very much a like. essentially identical. OP anemone is bleached, once it regain it's color, the clear part should be brownish
 
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I had an all-white for quite a while, until a tank crash. It ate well, and never colored up at all. Never moved, it was a model citizen and a really cool animal. My favorite thing I lost in the crash.
 
A beautiful anemone. My guess is that the anemone is not bleached. That species often has areas that are a bright, white color. That is the pigmentation and not a result of bleaching. The white looks opaque, rather than translucent, as in bleached anemones.
 
On the oral disk there are white lines, and off white lines between them. The off white area is where the zooxanthellae show, and cause the slightly darker color. If you look at this area in the pic that Graham posted, you will notice that it is very dark. Especially out near the tentacles. In the OP's pic, this area is comparably very light. Zooxanthellae are different shades of brown. All healthy crucifers contain zooxanthellae. This means that all healthy crucifers will have areas that appear brownish. I don't believe that the OP's anemone is completely void of zooxanthellae, but once it gets well established, the off white area should get much darker.
 
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On the oral disk there are white lines, and off white lines between them. The off white area is where the zooxanthellae show, and cause the slightly darker color. If you look at this area in the pic that Graham posted, you will notice that it is very dark. Especially out near the tentacles. In the OP's pic, this area is comparably very light. Zooxanthellae are different shades of brown. All healthy crucifers contain zooxanthellae. This means that all healthy crucifers will have areas that appear brownish. I don't believe that the OP's anemone is completely void of zooxanthellae, but once it gets well established, the off white area should get much darker.
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I see what you are saying now. There is some translucency to it. With proper care, hopefully it will be a short recovery to get the nem up to full strength. Just such a beautiful animal all around!
 
Funny as my wife and I were talking about this today.

Almost 2 years ago we bought a flower nem which was bone white. We pondered whether it was healthy/bleached/etc.

Thing eats like a horse and is happy as can be. It has grown from the size of a $.50 piece to +6" across now. It's freaking HUGE and very happy. Bugger ate my cleaner shrimp though...

This was it early on (front left in the pic):
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Here it is today:
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In the ~ 2yrs we've had it, you can see that it's colored up a bit in the center, but the tips are still brilliantly white.

The mouth on this beast is weird too. It is ALWAYS huge/puffy. Big ole Mick Jagger / Steven Tyler lips.

Does anyone know if these nems split? I do believe there are some that don't but am not sure on this one.
 
From what I've read, E. crucifer doesn't asexually reproduce. There are accounts of flower anemones spawning and producing young in aquariums.
 
Crusifer is not known to split. They are very active sexual reproducers though. The larvae may not survive in all tanks, but that doesn't stop them from trying.


bhotep said:
Well I thought there were no white anemones in tropical waters till I saw a number of them on this site http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Anemone

Here is a sample

http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/JV03_073
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That is a very sad video. To see a large beautiful anemone like that, in the wild and bleached to that degree, is truly sad IMHO.

There are healthy white anemones. They are called azooxanthellae, or void of zooxanthellae. They're usually deep or cold water species. The vast majority of species we keep contain zooxanthellae. That includes all of the host species, crusifer, tapetum, Condylactis, helianthus, and several others. Zooxanthellae cause the anemone to appear tan or brownish. If any of the above species appear solid white, they are bleached.
 
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