I'm just taking exception (sorry Alan
) to the conclusion that a bleached anemone is healthy after all. There are a lot of subtle nuances that are being missed when I read that line. I know Alan knows this, but my concern is that someone who might not have the experience to fall back on, sees that and draws the wrong conclusions about that white anemone they see in the store. To be clear: it is possible that a bleached anemone may recover and become a healthy, vibrant, robust, etc. (insert favourite adjective here), individual, but, the fact remains that it is stressed at that point and recovery isn't guaranteed. I wouldn't recommend a bleached anemone to anyone who isn't 100% certain they are willing to take on the TLC of nurturing such an animal back to healthy robustness, and I would venture to say that it really ought to be tried only by people with some experience with anemones in particular. I do believe that Alan knows what he's doing, so don't take any of my comments as a criticism levelled against him, he's doing just fine from what I can tell -- I'm merely going after the syntactic/semantic issues.