Bleached or not?

[fatdaddy]

I came across this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-BLUE-GREEN...5224471QQihZ003QQcategoryZ46308QQcmdZViewItem

Bleached, right?

 

[Anemone]

Looks like it is, but it's hard to tell what color or zooxanthellae may really be present due to the 14K lighting the pic is taken under. There is certainly some color to the tentacles, so it's not totally bleached.

Kevin

 

[sarahkucera]

When I first got my H Crispa from a tear down sale she was horribly bleached and shrunken and was very bluish looking.
This is her on 7/11/06.
<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/071106/DSC08829.JPG" width=600 height=450 title="" >

See, she's just a little blob.
<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/071106/DSC08850.JPG" width=600 height=429 title="" >


On 6/1/07, just 11 months later, she looks like this:

<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/060107/DSC09193.JPG" width=700 height=525 title="" >

I don't think that the ebay nem will keep that coloration.

 

[phender]

People who have bought the "blue" LTAs all have reported that they become a brownish green when the zooxanthellae grows back.