Help! Are they dead?

[Sonam]

Hello All,
We received a shipment today if rock flower anemones. We had been contacted by the vendor to let us know the shipment had been delayed by Fed Ex. They arrived today looking awful in brown water.

After acclimation I put them in the system just to give them a chance.

It’s been a few hours and this is how they look.


One looks like it is recovering on a rock.

I’m worried they are dead.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Hello All,
We received a shipment today if rock flower anemones. We had been contacted by the vendor to let us know the shipment had been delayed by Fed Ex. They arrived today looking awful in brown water.

After acclimation I put them in the system just to give them a chance.

It’s been a few hours and this is how they look.


One looks like it is recovering on a rock.

I’m worried they are dead.

The goby and pistol looks good. Did you mean to put a video of your nems on and grab the wrong video?

 

[Sonam]

Oops. Yes.

 

[Sonam]

The goby and pistol looks good. Did you mean to put a video of your nems on and grab the wrong video?

My mistake. Sorry.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

That bleached looking one imo is a gonner, I would remove it. #reefsquad what do you think?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

My mistake. Sorry.

No worries, I do it all the time.

 

[Flippers4pups]

The one that's losing tissue looks dead. Your call, but as @hdsoftail1065 said, it's probably gone.

 

[rkpetersen]

Looks like tissue is starting to disintegrate. Chances of recovery not great. Try gently lifting them up. If gelatinous tissue sloughs off, that's bad. You can also pull them out of the water briefly and gave them the sniff test. If they have a rotten smell at all, rather than just a seaside smell, probably best to get rid of them. (And hopefully get your money back.)

 

[Sonam]

Thanks. We have four that were dissolving.
Thank you. They were dead. We have one that may make it. But it doesn’t look good.