Id yellow anemone

[Danieltank]

Can anyone help me with an ID on this anemone?
Is it a dye-job? The foot is all yellow too, but the tips are purple.

 

[andygb54303]

sabae i think

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

yeah its definately a sebae .. I have never seen a yellow one but I'm sure some one else can tell us if its dyed or not. Where did you get it?

Here I posted your picture for you

 

[Danieltank]

From a local Fish store in Copenhagen. Who got it from http://www.dejongmarinelife.nl/

 

[phender]

It is H. crispa (sebae anemone) but it has definately been dyed yellow. Sometimes they survive the process, but usually not. I all cases the color will fade in a couple weeks to a month.

 

[garygb]

It is a dyed H. crispa. Unfortunately very common. It is not necessarily fatal to the anemone and sometimes the yellow clears and you have a very white, bleached sebae that eventually colors up tan again as the zooxanthellae recolonize.

 

[GSMguy]

Sad, what a pretty anemone, their is no need to dye them....

 

[Jesper B]

Hej Daniel
Ã" rgerligt med din anemone hvis den er farvet for den er ellers flot som den ser ud pÃ¥ billedet

 

[mastou]

Are there any way to see that it is a dyed anemone? Or can you tell it because you have never seen a H. crispa with such a color?

/Magnus

 

[garygb]

That is not a natural color variant. That's how we can tell.

 

[TheMcs]

Not sure if it works on anemones, but we used to be able to tell if we got a dyed soft coral by lightly squeezing a part of it with a paper towel. The color would come off on the towel.

 

[andygb54303]

how rediculous, why would someone dye a creature like that, kinda pi$$es me off actually!

 

[taylor t]

My uncle has a yellow sebae...purple tips like the pic...4 months now, happy as ever, good mouth, foot attatched, expanded well, eats silversides with good response...How long does it take to change colors???