ordered a couple clones - a pale green with bright orange tips "acid rain" and neon green, splattered, "toxic clouds"
came from some folks in CA. i live in washington, dc. was shipped usps express by 12pm next day air.
somehow crappy usps decides to not fulfill this obligation and the anemone took two days to get to me the following afternoon after supposed guaranteed arrival.
it was shipped with another nem and here they are after arrival prior to acclimation and QT. their mouths gaping open, the water soiled rotten and fragments of their discarded tissue floating around.
unfortunately, i lost the more rare anemone on the bottom of that photo despite my thinking that it looked better upon initial receipt. it just continued to deteriorate over the course of the following week and began melting away and was flushed.
thankfully, i was able to rehab the other nem successfully while in QT and it began expanding, settling, eating very well, and made the transition to my DT very nicely and hasn't moved from the spot i allocated for it which it seems to really enjoy...
after such stress sometimes i'll see an immediate clone but no such "luck" with this experience. the survivor is expanding quite large already and is about 8-10". after some more settling time and eating in the tank if he doesn't split i'll manually clone him and probably have him in my 265 build or put him up for sale. he's really turning into a beautiful specimen and addition to the tank. quite excited!
