Sure, but this was the product photo. Given I know whenever you shop with vendors they're using professional lighting, high end cameras, taking top down photos, and deep actinic lights, I can't by any stretch of the imagination see what I received as anything other than a standard rainbow bubbletip anemone.
The picture was taken about an hour after it got into my tank
Fair enough, I'll give it some time. I was under the impression that stress made them paler, not have completely different colors.
I don't want to take shots at anyone so I don't really plan to call names. I genuinely believe its just a case of a mistake where someone told them something different. But as suggested I'll give it some time to see if the colors change.
Sometime some of us really don’t have any choice.
I have no choice either! But I still don’t like it and have been burned plenty, even by sponsors here
What I believe the case was is that the original source told them it was a black widow bubbletip anemone. They then sold it to me as a black widow bubbletip anemone. When I pointed it out, they went back over everything to see if it was a clerical mistake, but they did in fact ship me what they had intended to. I don't think there's a bit of ill intent. They're a super trustworthy vendor that I and others have purchased from before and I've never seen a single negative against them. I just was hoping to get secondary assurance that I was correct before pushing harder in my claim that I was sent the wrong anemone. My instinct is to take photos and immediately report on receiving if anything is off. I've brought it to their attention, but I'll push and follow up after its settled in given that others have said that shipping stress can affect color. I'm still reasonably certain that its just a regular rainbow bubbletip anemone but Ill give them the benefit of the doubt and let it acclimate to its new environment first.
