Bubble Tips
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Nope
Nope
Here is the link
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?ddid=31556&siteid=20
Green and blue bulb anemone.
Size: 6-1/2"
or this purple and green one?
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?ddid=31229&siteid=20
those both state clearly blue and green and purple and green.
Nope
Here is the link
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?ddid=31556&siteid=20
Green and blue bulb anemone.
Size: 6-1/2"
or this purple and green one?
http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?ddid=31229&siteid=20
those both state clearly blue and green and purple and green.
dfs/la2
.Registered Member
Reefvette,
The description of shade or color of all of our Divers Den items is based on live observations of the actual item. Occasionally colors can seem to be softer in photographs then in real life. The coloration in the blue and green anemone you are referring to may be more intense/deep or quieter/lighter depending on your monitor’s color resolution. This would apply to the purple and green colors as well.
The blue and green anemone has lighter shades of blue just below the bulb resemble a “robin’s egg†blue. Both of these anemones are beautiful with a fantastic blend of blue/green (item#112907213) and purple/green (item#112307239).
We have been very fortunate to have our customers contact us after they receive their orders to let us know were extremely impressed with the coloration of fish, corals and invertebrate.
Ginger K.
LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
The description of shade or color of all of our Divers Den items is based on live observations of the actual item. Occasionally colors can seem to be softer in photographs then in real life. The coloration in the blue and green anemone you are referring to may be more intense/deep or quieter/lighter depending on your monitor’s color resolution. This would apply to the purple and green colors as well.
The blue and green anemone has lighter shades of blue just below the bulb resemble a “robin’s egg†blue. Both of these anemones are beautiful with a fantastic blend of blue/green (item#112907213) and purple/green (item#112307239).
We have been very fortunate to have our customers contact us after they receive their orders to let us know were extremely impressed with the coloration of fish, corals and invertebrate.
Ginger K.
LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
Purple BTA
Purple BTA
I purchased a Purple bubble tip from you guys about a month ago. It was held for observation and delayed in shipping because it didnt look right. When i received the supposedly purple bubble tip it was in plastic bag with packing peanuts and no heat packs. whatsoever. I did call your customer care center to let them know the east coast was facing 30 degree temparture that week. Still no heat packs. The bag must have been rolling around in the box as we all know packing peanuts are nut sturdy packing materials.
The animal was in 63 degree water and was completely agape. Once i got the animal into the aquarium after 4 hour acclimation due to having to slowly match temps. It puffed up but still had an agape mouth. A day later it perished and when it expelled its guts i looked to find out that it had been preganany and carrying fertized eggs. Small orange spheres that attached to my glass.
Also i have come to beleive that this was not a bubble tip anemone. It didnt show any charecteristics of a bubble tip except for bubble tiped tentacles which can be a charecteristic of many other anemones. To my knowledge as well anemones of the same species will not attack each other. My other RBTAS began to move closer to anemone when it was placed in the tank. They however did not do that when i put a green bta in.
I spoke to a renowned anemone expert and told me it most likely was a mature female with eggs and probably got too stressed from shipping.
I did get a full refund for my items. Dr foster and smith made good on it. I will tell you that expeirence has made me weary of ordering. Shed some light on that if you may.
Purple BTA
I purchased a Purple bubble tip from you guys about a month ago. It was held for observation and delayed in shipping because it didnt look right. When i received the supposedly purple bubble tip it was in plastic bag with packing peanuts and no heat packs. whatsoever. I did call your customer care center to let them know the east coast was facing 30 degree temparture that week. Still no heat packs. The bag must have been rolling around in the box as we all know packing peanuts are nut sturdy packing materials.
The animal was in 63 degree water and was completely agape. Once i got the animal into the aquarium after 4 hour acclimation due to having to slowly match temps. It puffed up but still had an agape mouth. A day later it perished and when it expelled its guts i looked to find out that it had been preganany and carrying fertized eggs. Small orange spheres that attached to my glass.
Also i have come to beleive that this was not a bubble tip anemone. It didnt show any charecteristics of a bubble tip except for bubble tiped tentacles which can be a charecteristic of many other anemones. To my knowledge as well anemones of the same species will not attack each other. My other RBTAS began to move closer to anemone when it was placed in the tank. They however did not do that when i put a green bta in.
I spoke to a renowned anemone expert and told me it most likely was a mature female with eggs and probably got too stressed from shipping.
I did get a full refund for my items. Dr foster and smith made good on it. I will tell you that expeirence has made me weary of ordering. Shed some light on that if you may.
DFS/LA1
.Registered Member
Reefvette,
Thank you for your post. We are very sorry for your disappointment with your purchase and the water temperature upon arrival. We are glad that we were able to provide you with a full refund and will do our best to have your next order meet and exceed your expectations.
Weather maps are consulted daily prior to shipping to determine which areas require heats packs. We sincerely apologize your order was sent without the appropriate temperature assistance.
In regards to your concerns about our Bubble Tip Anemones, we noticed that you have been a part of a prior RC discussion on this matter.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1216426
Please know we have brought your concern to the attention of our Director, who assures us that our Bubble Tip Anemones are Bubble Tip Anemones as they should be. Our Director works closely with our collectors and personally inspects and cares for all of our specimens.
Your satisfaction and trust are extremely important to us! We are very proud of our Aquacultured Marine Life and Coral facility as well as the specimens we care for and hope you will be too. If there is anything further we can do to satisfy you, please do not hesitate to ask.
You may wish to consider attending our next annual Frag Swap in 2008, to tour our facility and view our fantastic specimens in person!
http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=366&ref=3788&subref=AS
Hope to see you there!
Donna
Live Aquaria Supervisors
Drs. Foster & Smith
Thank you for your post. We are very sorry for your disappointment with your purchase and the water temperature upon arrival. We are glad that we were able to provide you with a full refund and will do our best to have your next order meet and exceed your expectations.
Weather maps are consulted daily prior to shipping to determine which areas require heats packs. We sincerely apologize your order was sent without the appropriate temperature assistance.
In regards to your concerns about our Bubble Tip Anemones, we noticed that you have been a part of a prior RC discussion on this matter.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1216426
Please know we have brought your concern to the attention of our Director, who assures us that our Bubble Tip Anemones are Bubble Tip Anemones as they should be. Our Director works closely with our collectors and personally inspects and cares for all of our specimens.
Your satisfaction and trust are extremely important to us! We are very proud of our Aquacultured Marine Life and Coral facility as well as the specimens we care for and hope you will be too. If there is anything further we can do to satisfy you, please do not hesitate to ask.
You may wish to consider attending our next annual Frag Swap in 2008, to tour our facility and view our fantastic specimens in person!
http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=366&ref=3788&subref=AS
Hope to see you there!
Donna
Live Aquaria Supervisors
Drs. Foster & Smith
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bubble tips
bubble tips
Would you argue the fact that anemones that fall under the classification of Bubble tip or for that matter any anemone of the same species will not wage chemical warefare on an anemone of the same species.
Bubble tips are colony anemones and group together.
The anemone sold to me was not a bubble tip i showed no signs of a being a buble tip. It did show signs of being a sebea anemone. The tents were greenish brown with a purple base. The tentacles even had the same shape as a sebea. It placed its food in a sandy are not in the rock work like a BTA.
My concern stems from being shipped a mature female who was bearing eggs. Most of the anemones you sold with the one i bought had orange spheres in their tentacles. All had eggs and would be suprised to find out of the lot that were shipped if any spawned or died.
You guys plucked the next generation of these nems from the ocean. Your collector should know that this has to be illegal or a the most immoral. Check out all those all pictures you will see the eggs in the tips on the tentacles.
I will give you that the current bubble tips in the divers den look like BTAS.
It seems like you guys were in a rush to ship out my order because of the lack of health of the specimin shipped to me. If they had checked the weather reports they would have seen that it was going to cold from wisconcin to NJ that day. The shipping was sub par only further adding to the stress this animal endured. I will tell you this is the same expeirence that was had with your sister company flying fish express.
I have placed order from many other online vendors. none have shipped in a larger box with packing peanuts. Smaller boxes with with the bags wedged in so the fit snuggly and three or four small heat packs.
I am sorry to vent but your 14 day garuntee is meant to protect you not us the consumer. You offer that garuntee because you can afford to incur such large loses. I urge you to rethink your shipping methods and use some discretion when selling animals that may have other needs. I mean if i was you id rather have 6 animals in a bin release 40 thousand eggs and aquaculture "purple bubble tips from a larval stage then sell 6 and have them perish from the stress of being a mature animal bearing eggs.
Once the anemone perish i took out some mestral strings and released some of the eggs into my tank. Most became food for my clowns but a couple attached to glass and flattened out and began to grow. Eventually the clowns picked them all off but, it was a eye opening expierence about a retailers lack of reasearch into the animal.
bubble tips
Would you argue the fact that anemones that fall under the classification of Bubble tip or for that matter any anemone of the same species will not wage chemical warefare on an anemone of the same species.
Bubble tips are colony anemones and group together.
The anemone sold to me was not a bubble tip i showed no signs of a being a buble tip. It did show signs of being a sebea anemone. The tents were greenish brown with a purple base. The tentacles even had the same shape as a sebea. It placed its food in a sandy are not in the rock work like a BTA.
My concern stems from being shipped a mature female who was bearing eggs. Most of the anemones you sold with the one i bought had orange spheres in their tentacles. All had eggs and would be suprised to find out of the lot that were shipped if any spawned or died.
You guys plucked the next generation of these nems from the ocean. Your collector should know that this has to be illegal or a the most immoral. Check out all those all pictures you will see the eggs in the tips on the tentacles.
I will give you that the current bubble tips in the divers den look like BTAS.
It seems like you guys were in a rush to ship out my order because of the lack of health of the specimin shipped to me. If they had checked the weather reports they would have seen that it was going to cold from wisconcin to NJ that day. The shipping was sub par only further adding to the stress this animal endured. I will tell you this is the same expeirence that was had with your sister company flying fish express.
I have placed order from many other online vendors. none have shipped in a larger box with packing peanuts. Smaller boxes with with the bags wedged in so the fit snuggly and three or four small heat packs.
I am sorry to vent but your 14 day garuntee is meant to protect you not us the consumer. You offer that garuntee because you can afford to incur such large loses. I urge you to rethink your shipping methods and use some discretion when selling animals that may have other needs. I mean if i was you id rather have 6 animals in a bin release 40 thousand eggs and aquaculture "purple bubble tips from a larval stage then sell 6 and have them perish from the stress of being a mature animal bearing eggs.
Once the anemone perish i took out some mestral strings and released some of the eggs into my tank. Most became food for my clowns but a couple attached to glass and flattened out and began to grow. Eventually the clowns picked them all off but, it was a eye opening expierence about a retailers lack of reasearch into the animal.
DFS
.Registered Member
Reefvette,
I would like to personally apologize for the problems you experienced with your order several months ago. We ship thousands of packages every week, and I can tell you that the problem you experienced is not the norm. I am glad that we were able to refund your money under our Arrive Alive Stay Alive guarantee, which is there for your protection, so that you can be confident and satisfied with everything you purchase from Drs. Foster and Smith/LiveAquaria.
The Purple Bulb Anemones we offered from Tonga a few months back were obtained from one of the most experienced suppliers overseas, especially when it comes to Cnidarians. The person running this export station actually was one of the only people to successfully spawn Stichodactyla gigantea in captivity, and he is in my book an expert on Anemone identification and husbandry. These anemones were sustainably harvested, and more importantly LEGALLY collected, exported and imported following the guidelines of export and import by US Fish and Wildlife. I can tell you that there are plenty more in the spot where they were collected, and you will see more of these Cnidarians throughout next year if all goes well.
We received these Purple Entacmaea quadricolors into our Aquaculture Coral and Marine Life facility in Rhinelander Wisconsin, and had quarantined these anemones for well over two weeks, then offered them slowly for sale on the LiveAquaria.com web site the following two weeks. I am very confident (as is our supplier) that these anemones are Entacmaea quadricolor. Some enthusiasts and even experts have debated if these “Bulb†anemones were in fact Heteractis magnifica, but they were definitely not Heteractis crispa or Heteractis malu, which are commonly referred to as Sebae Anemones. This thread was linked to in the above post by Donna, where you posted in several times.
As far as being in a rush to ship your order, we actually did not ship the anemone to you on the day scheduled because the anemone was deflated and IMO was not ready to be pulled from our holding vats and shipped that day, which you had alluded to in your previous post. It my job to make sure that every animal that leaves our facility is in perfect health, and I do hold orders when I feel that an animal does not meet the criteria for packaging and transport. Unfortunately on rare occasions mistakes do happen due to human error with packaging and transport, but once again, I can assure you that this is rare, or we would not be in business if similar human errors were made repeatedly. We have thousands of satisfied customers, and hope that we can add you to the list one day if you decide to purchase from us again.
I am not here to debate with you on our packaging, identification or anything else for that matter. I understand your frustration with your previous order, but if you still feel that we have not rectified the situation with your order to your satisfaction, I urge you to contact the LiveAquaria supervisor so that we can revisit this issue.
Regards,
Kevin Kohen
Director of LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
I would like to personally apologize for the problems you experienced with your order several months ago. We ship thousands of packages every week, and I can tell you that the problem you experienced is not the norm. I am glad that we were able to refund your money under our Arrive Alive Stay Alive guarantee, which is there for your protection, so that you can be confident and satisfied with everything you purchase from Drs. Foster and Smith/LiveAquaria.
The Purple Bulb Anemones we offered from Tonga a few months back were obtained from one of the most experienced suppliers overseas, especially when it comes to Cnidarians. The person running this export station actually was one of the only people to successfully spawn Stichodactyla gigantea in captivity, and he is in my book an expert on Anemone identification and husbandry. These anemones were sustainably harvested, and more importantly LEGALLY collected, exported and imported following the guidelines of export and import by US Fish and Wildlife. I can tell you that there are plenty more in the spot where they were collected, and you will see more of these Cnidarians throughout next year if all goes well.
We received these Purple Entacmaea quadricolors into our Aquaculture Coral and Marine Life facility in Rhinelander Wisconsin, and had quarantined these anemones for well over two weeks, then offered them slowly for sale on the LiveAquaria.com web site the following two weeks. I am very confident (as is our supplier) that these anemones are Entacmaea quadricolor. Some enthusiasts and even experts have debated if these “Bulb†anemones were in fact Heteractis magnifica, but they were definitely not Heteractis crispa or Heteractis malu, which are commonly referred to as Sebae Anemones. This thread was linked to in the above post by Donna, where you posted in several times.
As far as being in a rush to ship your order, we actually did not ship the anemone to you on the day scheduled because the anemone was deflated and IMO was not ready to be pulled from our holding vats and shipped that day, which you had alluded to in your previous post. It my job to make sure that every animal that leaves our facility is in perfect health, and I do hold orders when I feel that an animal does not meet the criteria for packaging and transport. Unfortunately on rare occasions mistakes do happen due to human error with packaging and transport, but once again, I can assure you that this is rare, or we would not be in business if similar human errors were made repeatedly. We have thousands of satisfied customers, and hope that we can add you to the list one day if you decide to purchase from us again.
I am not here to debate with you on our packaging, identification or anything else for that matter. I understand your frustration with your previous order, but if you still feel that we have not rectified the situation with your order to your satisfaction, I urge you to contact the LiveAquaria supervisor so that we can revisit this issue.
Regards,
Kevin Kohen
Director of LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
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Thank you
Thank you
I thank you for your post and information. But as you said my anemone was deflated and should have been sign of stress, weather it be from sickness or eating.
I thank you for the location of this anemone.
My WC akindynos currently two RBTAS of 8 - 10 inches.
My Concern with this is that these were mature egg bearing female anemones. I realize that during the summer months following alng with lunar activities most reef animals release eggs. It just bothers me that this animal was collected with noticable eggs in the tentacles.
I do not mean to harp on this but i almost lost my two CB rbtas and my clowns when this anemone died.
Thank you
I thank you for your post and information. But as you said my anemone was deflated and should have been sign of stress, weather it be from sickness or eating.
I thank you for the location of this anemone.
My WC akindynos currently two RBTAS of 8 - 10 inches.
My Concern with this is that these were mature egg bearing female anemones. I realize that during the summer months following alng with lunar activities most reef animals release eggs. It just bothers me that this animal was collected with noticable eggs in the tentacles.
I do not mean to harp on this but i almost lost my two CB rbtas and my clowns when this anemone died.
