RBTA Flurescent Pink Shipping Water?

[Jillyfish]

I just meant I would leave positive because many said that if it had been colored it would have had a colored base too. I would leave positive whether he answered my question about the water or not.
I am guessing that it is a real rbta and not a brown one that has been colored I hope. Maybe he wanted to spruce up the color a bit and get better feedback, who knows.
But I agree, I should not give good feedback if he dyed the anemone.

 

[timrandlerv10]

the first pic looks dyed, but the second pic looks healthy...so i guess its just lighting/camera variation...unless it looks different to you?

if there was hot pink in the water, something fishy was going on (pardon the pun)...

nobody said it had to be a GOOD dye job for it to be dyed:

he dyed it expecting the dye to set and stay in, shipped it too early, so the dye was 'on' and not 'in' the nem, and it came off in the stress of shipping.
the fact that your nem appears healthy by your pics now doesnt change his painting of the animal nor his intent.

OR

i could be completely wrong, which i hope i am

 

[flamron]

*Ebay seller picks rock up with nem, holds it upside down out of the water - dips into dye, but only the tips.... Air drys it for 20 minutes, sticks it back in the water that hasn't seen a water change since the last time the tank sprung a leak (Dang tank, now I gotta make new water!).....Shoots a pic of it, posts it on ebay, you buy it.....He ships it a mere day or two after the "dye job" and wala, you get pink water....

Is the foot supposed to be dyed too? I don't know. BUT, the water being pink is too odd to be anything but dye.

I hope the bta survives - I don't want to see any animals harmed. Hopefully, I'm wrong, it isn't dyed, and the ebay seller is one of the best in the world at caring for animals.

I keep going back to the pink water, though.....

 

[flamron]

You don't need to worry about your feedback, as Sellers can't leave you negative feedback anymore (grumbles....).
Just a thought

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13509139#post13509139 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jillyfish
But I agree, I should not give good feedback if he dyed the anemone.

 

[Jillyfish]

Well, you are right about there being no explaination for the water. I wrote to him and he wrote back and said. " I have no idea I have never run into that before. I'll ask my reef club."

I actually bought two anemones from him and they were in seperate bags. Both bags had pink water, so it could not be some fluke thing where the anemone digested and spit out part of itself.

 

[Flighty]

really, that isn't how a dyed anemone looks at all and that is just the way a normal RBTA looks when acclimating. The dye doesn't work like paint that you could dip a healthy anemone with its dark zooanthelle and get RBTA looking tentacles

Maybe he had been feeding krill or something? I think it is far more likely that there was some dye or color in something he was feeding the anemone than there is some nefarious new dying process that keeps the anemone looking healthy.

 

[Santoki]

I think what matters is that you find out what the pink stuff in the water was. Either way, a dyed anemone can still be a healthy one, but it would not be right if the seller was engaging in non-kosher practices. See if he/she can explain what the pink water is. I can tell you for sure that no natural pigmentation will color the water in that manner.

 

[magellan007]

I don't know about the water, but my anemone looks identical to yours when it's all stringy--and it's definitely not dyed. all the pics you've posted look like healthy anemones.

 

[seamom]

Well, you could wait and hope it splits. When the new "baby" grows out and adds new tentacles, it will show its "real" color if it was in fact dyed. Otherwise, just enjoy it!

 

[eeorrandy]

I don't believe it's dyed. It's almost impossible to dye only a part of the anemone.

By the way I have seen pigment.. orange and pink left behind on both a cloth and in water. If any of the tentacles were damaged during shipping you could certainly find pigment in the water

Just my experience for what it's worth

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Did you see a picture of it before you ordered it?

One way to think about the feedback issue is whether the anemone looks like the photo that was shown to you.

Whether it looks dyed now or not, if it was dyed to look different than it now does, and presumably more attractive as a purchase, then that is a serious problem, IMO, and should be reflected in the feedback.

 

[Jillyfish]

Thanks all for your replies. Eeorrandy, that is interesting, and I hope that is the explaination. I've never mail ordered an anemone before, but they looked in rough shape with some fleshy looking crud floating around in both bags, the water was really cloudy. They were small size ziplocks.

I could kick myself for not saving some of the shipping water, but at the time all I could think of was starting the acclimation proccess asap.

Thanks Randy. It was not the same anemone in the auction picture as was sent. It was kind of implied in the auction, but not outright stated that it was wysiwyg.

I am pretty sure this guy is just a hobbiest. He has nothing listed now.

Seamom, that will certainly clear things up if they split. I tend to agree with those that think they were not dyed though.

Jill

 

[paytonv]

Could you post more pics of your anemone? I had one this color until my tank crashed. I like the deep red with almost black base. This color variation is hard to find.

 

[anemoneguy]

wow. seems like alot of people want to jump rigjt in and give a neg. feedback. why? you know what they say about asumption. maybe he put something in the water for shipping. or the fact that it was in the bag for 28 hours. point is the last pics look real good. and as someone said here a dyed anemone can be healthy as well.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

seems like alot of people want to jump rigjt in and give a neg. feedback. why?

Regardless of health, you would not give negative feedback about a dyed anemone?

The shipper already said he had no idea what the color was, so it is not something else benign he added. Could it be color from the anemone itself? I have no idea, but it does not seem as if any of the experienced people here who have received many of these anemones have seen any natural process that resulted in a hot pink or any other colored bag of water (aside from expelled zoox).

 

[morphiii]

Is this the guy?

Is this the guy?

Did you buy from this guy?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Live-Coral-BUBB...wItem?hash=item270284674138&_trkparms=72:1418|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

It looks good, I might bite.

 

[Jillyfish]

No I did not buy from that guy.

Here is today's picture.

 

[elegance coral]

I don't know what was in the shipping water, but that anemone has not been dyed.
If I mail ordered an anemone and received the one you just posted a pic of, I would be VERY VERY happy. It's a beautiful anemone, and looks to be in relatively good shape.
I see no reason to give the guy bad feedback. If it had been dyed, then yes. Slam the guy. It hasn't been dyed though.
Someone may chime in and say that the redish orange color on the column is dye, but it looks like natural pigment to me.
Anemones can lose some or all of their secondary pigments when they bleach. Maybe the stress of shipping caused them to discharge some of these pigments into the small volume of shipping water. It probably wouldn't take much to be visible in that small amount of water. I'm totally guessing, but it doesn't really matter. I don't think you should let the color of the shipping water worry you. You have a beautiful new pet that should be with you for many years to come. Congratulations.

 

[Jillyfish]

I am very happy with them. They are doing great. They both ate silversides today already.
They were both in the same cave and were irritating each other, so I had to turn over a rock the one in the picture was hooked o, but they look great and I am very happy with their size and health.
I didn't leave negative feedback.

 

[Jillyfish]

Timandlerv10. actually the color does seem to have changed from that hot pink of day one to the more normal color they are now.