Help ID - sent to me by mistake

[A777flygirl]

I ordered some coral online and was sent these by accident. I don't know what they are.

Please help me identify them. Anenome?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Definitely anemones, hard to say what type though with them all bundled up.

 

[MarinaP]

Can you post a pic of those in your tank? I cannot stop staring at the one on the left because of the shape. It is really, really bizzare. There is a piece of rock stuck to it, right?The one at the bottom right seems to be h.magnifica, but hard to tell for sure. The one at the top is dead, throw it out. How big is the one on the right?

 

[A777flygirl]

Well....bummer....I had put them in a quarantine tank and this morning they all looked like they disintegrated....gooey mess....so glad they were the only things in there as the water got really yucky....what an awful experience

 

[A777flygirl]

It did look like h. Magnifica from looking that up. Looks like that species is for experts only. Pretty expensive loss too. I most likely would not have been able to keep them alive.

 

[MarinaP]

The one on the left looks like a piece of magnifica. Like somebody took a knife and went to town on the animal. Who was the vendor? Can you ask them what on earth they sent you?

 

[gig 'em]

If those were magnifica anemones that would be a tremendous shame, I've been looking for a red one like that for years

 

[A777flygirl]

It was from Liveaquaria divers den. When I called to tell them I received the wrong items they told me they were anenome but she had already closed the guys file that was supposed to get them. It looks like they have more. Their web page does say for experts only.

 

[gig 'em]

It was from Liveaquaria divers den. When I called to tell them I received the wrong items they told me they were anenome but she had already closed the guys file that was supposed to get them. It looks like they have more. Their web page does say for experts only.

Yes, very difficult to get it healthy. They don't ship well at all, but once they're healthy they're pretty rock solid. The problem with ordering online is you never know what color you're going to get, and that's a big deal.

 

[A777flygirl]

Yes, very difficult to get it healthy. They don't ship well at all, but once they're healthy they're pretty rock solid. The problem with ordering online is you never know what color you're going to get, and that's a big deal.

I thought the big one was going to survive because it was moving up a rock in the quarantine tank when I went to bed...but. :(

 

[davocean]

Center looks very much mag, left too though that is jacked, but that top right, geez does that thing look chewed up.

I prefer divers den as then you get to see color, wysiwyg pics, but you have to be pretty quick on it.

I agree after getting healthy they are not all that difficult really

 

[davocean]

I thought the big one was going to survive because it was moving up a rock in the quarantine tank when I went to bed...but. :(

Yeah center looked fine, but deflation from bacterial infection still possible, and they can transfer or receive from others in same tank, but your deal may have been one perished and just nuked the qt tank

 

[A777flygirl]

Yeah center looked fine, but deflation from bacterial infection still possible, and they can transfer or receive from others in same tank, but your deal may have been one perished and just nuked the qt tank

Definitely reinforced that I need to research and be prepared for corals I buy or order...I was kind of in a panic trying to figure out what to do with coral I didn't know anything about. I certainly wasn't comfortable putting them in my display tank. In hindsight, that could have been a huge disaster

 

[davocean]

Definitely reinforced that I need to research and be prepared for corals I buy or order...I was kind of in a panic trying to figure out what to do with coral I didn't know anything about. I certainly wasn't comfortable putting them in my display tank. In hindsight, that could have been a huge disaster

Oh absolutely, you are so glad you did the right thing, could have and probably would have nuked everything.

Usually we advise having cipro on hand to treat new mags immediately, time is of the essence, and probably 80-90% of newly shipped mags require treatment on arrival