I'll second bluekai @Asagi should be able to help you out.
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Yeah, I think you meant gigantea. I was checking them regularly, they had a haddoni listed for a while then they listed a gigantea. I read good reviews and figured since they differentiated between the two and didn’t just list ‘carpet anemone’ that it would be right….They’re usually good surprising they listed it as haddoni
They do come mislabeled from over seas sometimes tooYeah, I think you meant gigantea. I was checking them regularly, they had a haddoni listed for a while then they listed a gigantea. I read good reviews and figured since they differentiated between the two and didn’t just list ‘carpet anemone’ that it would be right….
I get that…..it just seems like if your business is selling livestock for several hundreds of dollars apiece you should be able to make a proper identification. It’s not like these are $5 frags from a local hobbiest. Especially when the vast majority can be differentiated based on the verracue alone. I can see if it was more borderline where it seemed to have some features of both that it could happen. Also, it may have just been a bad week for Michael, but I ordered on a Saturday and emailed on Tuesday to find out when it would ship and didn’t hear anything from him until Friday (I sent several messages through the website and via email)….so overall it wasn’t a great experience for me.They do come mislabeled from over seas sometimes too
I agree I would definitely contact the company and tell them what happenedI get that…..it just seems like if your business is selling livestock for several hundreds of dollars apiece you should be able to make a proper identification. It’s not like these are $5 frags from a local hobbiest. Especially when the vast majority can be differentiated based on the verracue alone. I can see if it was more borderline where it seemed to have some features of both that it could happen. Also, it may have just been a bad week for Michael, but I ordered on a Saturday and emailed on Tuesday to find out when it would ship and didn’t hear anything from him until Friday (I sent several messages through the website and via email)….so overall it wasn’t a great experience for me.
Thanks for the info!To answer your initial question -- it's very rare to find a gigantea without visible verrucae. There are times when they appear faded, but there's usually a presence of dots or similar markings.
Aside from the previously mentioned comment by @argiBK regarding the "lipstick" I've never come across a gigantea with pink around the mouth.
Another characteristic to note is that haddoni typically have a much thicker column than gigantea. On many larger specimens, the column on gigantea actually seems disproportionately small.