Opinions on this practice

[marc price]

well, i'm aghast! thanks chris and thank you mentsh!

 

[massman]

Whilst I also am against this practice, I have as a controlled experiment years ago dyed four specimens of h. malus by soaking them in food colouring. (fit for human consumption)
All absorbed the colour but eventually lost it returning to their normal cream/brown colour. (over about a 4 week period)
No adverse effects were noticed. In fact, I still have one of these anemones to this day (4 years later).


However, I must say that the colours were never as solid as those pictured.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Sorry to be a bit off subject. I tried to pm but Sullymans pm box is full.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14633817#post14633817 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sullyman
I was wondering about the purple LTA at Atlantis, if it was natural or not?

Purple is a natural color for M. Doreensis (LTA) . If you look at my avatar, that is my purple lta. An lta can even be red. < those are rarely found in the trade though.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14635575#post14635575 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by massman
Whilst I also am against this practice, I have as a controlled experiment years ago dyed four specimens of h. malus by soaking them in food colouring. (fit for human consumption)
All absorbed the colour but eventually lost it returning to their normal cream/brown colour. (over about a 4 week period)
No adverse effects were noticed. In fact, I still have one of these anemones to this day (4 years later).


However, I must say that the colours were never as solid as those pictured.

I assume that if your anemones were creamy brown that they were at least semi healthy when you did the experiment. Most of these anemones are freshly shipped, stressed, and bleached when they do the dye job. This probably explains why your anemones didn't show the same color as the ones offered for sale, and why yours did so much better with the recovery.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14630796#post14630796 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by traveller7
Agreed.

Consumer information is a great tool. Dyed specimens show up all the time at various stages of the retail chain.

I honestly thought that this practice allong with cyanide poisoning, would have been completely abolished by now.

 

[massman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14640421#post14640421 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral
I assume that if your anemones were creamy brown that they were at least semi healthy when you did the experiment. Most of these anemones are freshly shipped, stressed, and bleached when they do the dye job. This probably explains why your anemones didn't show the same color as the ones offered for sale, and why yours did so much better with the recovery.

Yes mate they were healthy. The had only been collected a few hours earlier