Is this dyed?

[Aaarrrggg]

I found this for sale on a website and wondered if its dyed?

If it isn't its AMAZING! They call it a "Flaming Tricolor Bubble Tip"

 

[criccio]

No, it isn't.

 

[redvipe2010]

Doesn't appear to be, to me anyway. Looks more like the affects of lighting or camera work. Sure doesn't look very healthy though! Poor little guy is starving to death.

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Wow wish they had those kinds of colours in the shops near me!

I didn't think it looked too healthy, its always suspicious when the best pic they can get has something all shriveled. I wonder what it would look like open?

At any rate I wasn't looking to buy, I'm in the UK so I only get to drool at the exotic coloured US stuff Just wanted to know if this is the sort of thing people meant by dyed anemones.

 

[tpdpercula]

I love those colors!!! I sent an email to Rommel at Ultimate Frags I guess just before he sold/closed up shop. I guess I'll have to wait until I see it somewhere else.

 

[redvipe2010]

If it has to be shipped it will be in worse shape when it arrives.

 

[55semireef]

That is the most amazing color BTA I have seen. How could anyone let a BTA of that beauty get to that condition? That's just sad.

 

[illcssd]

Can you say photoshop?

 

[MarinaP]

Looks like starved green BTA with pink tips. Nothing special.

 

[GSMguy]

photoshop + sick anemone= unrealistic color

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Pity, some B&W clowns would have looked amazing in one of them...if it was real, and not probably dead now.

 

[55semireef]

That anemone is not photoshopped. The reason why it looks so colorful is because all of its zooxanthellae is compressed together because the BTA is shrunk. I wish I could see a picture of the BTA fully inflated.

 

[tpdpercula]

ITS THE EXACT PICTURE LISTED ON THE ULTIMATEFRAGS.COM SITE. Is that the web site your referring to?

 

[GSMguy]

i would love to see the origional pic but i would bet that pink is too hot and is not true color

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Yup, sorry I didn't know if it was against the rules to say a company name.

 

[herostar]

I saw a BTA that looked like that but in better condition in a local's Q-tank. Awesome looking anemone.

 

[illcssd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9366395#post9366395 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
That anemone is not photoshopped. The reason why it looks so colorful is because all of its zooxanthellae is compressed together because the BTA is shrunk. I wish I could see a picture of the BTA fully inflated.

I wish i knew everything.

 

[petoonia]

If you want to see a dyed anemone check out the first link in this post.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1059943

 

[Aaarrrggg]

Yuck! Poor thing

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9369604#post9369604 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by illcssd
I wish i knew everything.

Sarcasm eh?

I saw a BTA that looked like that but in better condition in a local's Q-tank. Awesome looking anemone.

Yes, I wouldn't be suprised if I saw an anemone like this somewhere else. I think the main reason why it looks like this is because its shrunk therefore its zooxanthellae is compressed together. When my RBTA shrinks, its looks a lot more red/pink than usualy because of its zooxanthellae being squeezed together in less space thus a brighter more eye catching color. I don't know why that is such a hard concept to understand. Anyone with anemones should know this.