Dyed Ritteri Anemone

[bprewit]

First of all I had never heard of them dying a anenome! Thats messed up! Anyways from what I can find out so far going from the foot of the anenome that I have it is possibly a ritteri that has been dyed. Ok so question here is will this guy live? His tentacles are good and sticky and he looks pretty heathly so hoping he will survive. I read that they are very hard to keep and thats not the best thing for me :( but I do atleast have a pretty mature tank (4yrs maybe?) with good lighting. I have two 40W NO actnic that are on for 12hrs, one 10K 250W MH that is on for 10hrs and one 6500K 175w that is on for 6hrs a day all on a 55g tank. I am having good luck with sps corals and very good and stable water parameters so atleast maybe I have a fighting chance with this guy. Any suggestions on keeping a Ritteri anenome succesfully? Thanks for all the help so far!

[Richard]

What color is it? H. magnifica are supposed to often have alot of color on the foot. Purple is most common. Having a clown to host in them is supposed to help.

[GaryP]

There is an LFS in San Antonio that used to sell a lot of dyed anemones. Their clientele is made up of a lot of less experienced SW folks and they got away with it. I don't go in there that much anymore so I'm not sure if they still do it or not. It seems like they have cleaned up their act on who they buy from so I would think not.

I also made the mistake of buying a dyed colt coral once when I was a rookie. Neither the anemone or the colt survived. I guess the moral of the story is to know what you are buying and if not ask a lot of questions. If you don't get good answers, take a pass on it.

Gary