Show me your "one in a million" anemone!

[sonofgaladriel]

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.

[Ron Popeil]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/ronaldpopeil/P1010012.jpg
you cant completely tell, but this was a white based heteractis magnifica with yellow tentacles. i have only ever seen this one.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/ronaldpopeil/DSCN2476.jpg
this was a particularly awesome bubble tip anemone.

[Big E]

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/EdFink/th_nemvideo.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v637/EdFink/?action=view&current=nemvideo.mp4)

[Mantis]

Here is my Flame

http://gallery.me.com/bradblankenship/100154/IMG_4065/web.jpg?ver=13128228270001

[bradleym]

This thread is off to an AMAZING start!!! Subscribing...
Thanks for sharing.

[sonofgaladriel]

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"?
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/17_green_sebae_purp_3_5_aa1.jpghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/20_purple_sebae_2_5_ab8.jpghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/aa11_sebae_ultra_546969.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/a_blue_long_tentacle_anemon.jpghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/16_pink_crispa_2_aa11.jpghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/15_green_sebae_2_5_aa3.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/th_Heteractis20crispa20RA.jpg (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/Heteractis20crispa20RA.jpg)http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/th_pinkcrispa.jpg (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/pinkcrispa.jpg)http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/18_pink_sebae_1_5-2_aa3.jpghttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/2360727flamebubble.jpg

[fdonophan]

Wow I LOVE that blue one!! Subscribed!!

[TULSATYE]

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o62/tyejh/2011-11-19161856.jpg

[Rippinfrags]

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/EdFink/th_nemvideo.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v637/EdFink/?action=view&current=nemvideo.mp4)

Stunning, h. Malu! Do you still have it?

[marc price]

This is as close to BigE's H. malu as i've found: http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/mp9_/Mobile%20Uploads/0924111837.jpg 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]

...and the crispa: http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/mp9_/Mobile%20Uploads/1012091144.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/mp9_/Mobile%20Uploads/1011092146.jpgside 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).

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

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.

[davocean]

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.

[Sport507]

I have two of these in the process of splitting.

[kduen]

This was on Divers Den last night.

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l579/Kris_Duensing/lg-121211-506a.jpg

[phender]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sonofgaladriel/2360727flamebubble.jpg

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". :)
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=678&pictureid=28352

...and the crispa: http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/mp9_/Mobile%20Uploads/1012091144.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/mp9_/Mobile%20Uploads/1011092146.jpgside 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.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=678&pictureid=36696

[Ron Popeil]

way to go phil, making everyone feel all 1 in 10 than 1 in a million....

[Winwood]

I don't have any great photos of this anemone but this was a red one with green stripes.
http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy306/Lunsforj/012-1.jpg

[Winwood]

way to go phil, making everyone feel all 1 in 10 than 1 in a million....
:lolspin:

[davocean]

Either way those are two naturally spectacular nems.
I've seen some extremely colorful BTA's

[davocean]

Another DP

[sonofgaladriel]

Phil- Can you share a photo of your beautiful crispa as it looked when you purchased it?
Did it look like the typical white with tiny blue tips or did it have something special about it that caught your eye?

[davocean]

Phils is much more purple than mine, but to add a comment to that question towards him mine was exactly like the single pic 2nd down from top at purchase, and mine did heal and become the more common beige w/ purple tips.
Mine also grew from about 4" in diameter to a solid 2 feet.

[sonofgaladriel]

So your nem started out looking like something really different but eventually turned out to be a nice, but somewhat regularly colored, specimen?

[davocean]

Yeah, I have pics, mine was very white/yellow w/ bright blue tips, got him from Petco long before this site and long before I knew any better.
Later I think people on here kinda knew me for having "that huge monster sebae" as many would put it.
It certainly wasn't 1 in a million for it's color, but it's size was impressive.
That and a LTA/doreensis took up most all of a 90g leaving very little room for corals(my LTA was 18")

[MarinaP]

http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/68_100/93_16/red1-vi.jpg[/URL]

[davocean]

I was going through my pics and forgot I did have one nem that was possibly my one in a million, or rather 2 in a million like Phils because I have seen one of these once aside from mine.
This was my pink LTA/doreensis, along w/ my picasso's baby pics.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/mermail/picassos219.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e141/mermail/CurrentTank721.jpg

[phender]

My sebae was pretty much that color when I bought it, which is why I bought it.:) I had another as well but sold it because it got too big.

I forgot about my best ever anemone. I bought it thinking it was a small purple gigantea.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=678&pictureid=35149

After I got it home and it relaxed I realize that it was most likely a haddoni. After a couple more days of getting relaxed I noticed that it wasn't just purple, it was bright green with purple tips.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=678&pictureid=35150

Alas, like many very small anemones, it disappeared behind the rocks one day and try as might, I couldn't find it. For a long time I hoped that it would reappear, but that day never came.

[sonofgaladriel]

That was a super nice carpet! Sorry to hear it disappeared.
Any more colorful wonders out there? Come on, there have to be more!

[Big E]

Stunning, h. Malu! Do you still have it?

Yes, I still have it...........it's been about 5 years.

Anymore beauties out there?

[BigCountry74]

I have two of these in the process of splitting.

those are absolutely killer....love the red with the yellow tip.

[Riv]

Wow so many nice ones !

[Catchoftheday]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/ronaldpopeil/P1010012.jpg
you cant completely tell, but this was a white based heteractis magnifica with yellow tentacles. i have only ever seen this one.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b293/ronaldpopeil/DSCN2476.jpg
this was a particularly awesome bubble tip anemone.


I to have a white based heteractis magnifica with yellow tentacles.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b350/hayli83/riteri-perc1.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b350/hayli83/riteri-perc.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b350/hayli83/ritteri2.jpg

[cichlidconvert]

Here is my favorite BTA in my tank. When I bought it it looked mustard brown because it was in a tank with a busted heater and chemical warfare was happening with a corn anemone. He called it a tri-color. But what color morf I am not sure. Anyway several months later here is what it looks like. I have a crappy Iphone camera so I played with the colors until it looked like what I see. Its a side view(once again because I cant get a decent shot at the front with my camera) So you cant see all the white striations radiating out from the mouth. But it looks like it has a spotlight on it compared to the other BTA's.

[hypnoj]

following.

[phurst]

My purple and green BTA. Not one in a million, but definitely uncommon.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e332/pearsonhurst/IMAG0157-1.jpg

[Reef1589]

NOOO its not mine, just a old reef central thread i drool over quite often.

some of you might remember this one being posted.. but this is definantly one of my top favorites..


can find the never ended story of it here..http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1723739 :( ( I wonder if anyone knows how it turned out? )

http://i54.*******.com/2582r6a.jpg
looks amazing
http://i54.*******.com/2hdd0lw.jpg

[BonsaiNut]

This is probably my favorite anemone photo so far:

http://www.wifeofnerd.com/images/mertensii_sm.jpg

Additionally, this adhaesivum is pretty colorful (albeit stressed):

http://www.wifeofnerd.com/images/79.jpg

[Gig 'em]

mine probably isn't the most unique, but I still think it's beautiful
http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt290/GSMaroon/P1060599.jpg

[westohooligan]

My gig I had that didn't make it...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6943771181_2cfff87213_b.jpg