sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
I'm looking for photos or videos of that really rare colored morph. You know, that one nem that has colors none of the others ever seem to have.
Show me your "one in a million" anemone!
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Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
you cant completely tell, but this was a white based heteractis magnifica with yellow tentacles. i have only ever seen this one.
this was a particularly awesome bubble tip anemone.
sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
Thanks for the great pics so far! Here are some I found on a google search that prompted my starting this thread. Just to see if there truly are any nems out there that look like this, without photo enhancement, lighting tricks, or artificial dyes.
What do you think, are these enhanced or are they the true "one in a million"?
What do you think, are these enhanced or are they the true "one in a million"?
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Rippinfrags
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Red H. malu with yellow & white tentacles. I don't know of anyone else that has it, & have never seen it for sale since my purchase.
Stunning, h. Malu! Do you still have it?
marc price
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This is as close to BigE's H. malu as i've found:
and no i didn't buy it, already have one H. malu i don't want, don't need another (mine was 2" and i had hoped it would be a crispa, i like longer tentacles).
marc price
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...and the crispa:
side note, you can see how the color is still all there when it was in the acclimation bucket under ambient light, (look at the center by the mouth, don't be confused by the outer edges in shadow which throw off the simple cell phone camera's white balance. i've posted the pix before and someone didn't get it).
sonofgaladriel, some of those are bleached and are under weird lighting.
IMO, that's a huge problem with many online places these days. If they survived, they surely would not look that way long term under reasonable lighting.
IMO, that's a huge problem with many online places these days. If they survived, they surely would not look that way long term under reasonable lighting.
davocean
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Agree w/ Randy.
In your group shot there are a couple LTA's/doreensis that look like they may have been in transition from being bleached, and on their way to natural colors but not quite.
The blue LTA/doreensis looks like the pic posted of one I bought a few years ago, and did not retain that color at all(I believe the LFS online vendor named it a phantom LTA, of which I'm pretty certain does not really exist, so I guess phantom was a good made up name for it!LOL)
There are some extremely bright colorful nems out there, but there is a lot of play going on w/ lighting, shopping, or worse dying.
I like when there is white eggcrate or tupperware in pic, and I always look at how white that is, or is it very blue, meaning heavy actinic lighting or over saturation of the pic.
In your group shot there are a couple LTA's/doreensis that look like they may have been in transition from being bleached, and on their way to natural colors but not quite.
The blue LTA/doreensis looks like the pic posted of one I bought a few years ago, and did not retain that color at all(I believe the LFS online vendor named it a phantom LTA, of which I'm pretty certain does not really exist, so I guess phantom was a good made up name for it!LOL)
There are some extremely bright colorful nems out there, but there is a lot of play going on w/ lighting, shopping, or worse dying.
I like when there is white eggcrate or tupperware in pic, and I always look at how white that is, or is it very blue, meaning heavy actinic lighting or over saturation of the pic.
phender
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This one is as close as I have seen to having the depth of color that mine has, but I guess that means that neither of them are "one in a million".
...and the crispa:
side note, you can see how the color is still all there when it was in the acclimation bucket under ambient light, (look at the center by the mouth, don't be confused by the outer edges in shadow which throw off the simple cell phone camera's white balance. i've posted the pix before and someone didn't get it).
I think mine is actually more colorful with just ambient lighting from the room. The tank lights sort of wash it out.
Sorry for the poor quality pic.
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
way to go phil, making everyone feel all 1 in 10 than 1 in a million....
Winwood
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