Palythoas or Manjo or other ID Help

[ifirefight]

Whats the best way to be certain? Ive looked at some pics and had a few people say these are palythoas,but as they are getting bigger im not so sur

e.

 

[ifirefight]

 

[theappe3]

majanos!

 

[viper_930]

Palys

 

[kidreef]

u could touch it and find out

 

[ifirefight]

Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
Palys
See this is what I mean.

 

[ifirefight]

Originally Posted by kidreef
u could touch it and find out

What would that prove?? I can touch it if that will help ID it.

 

[kidreef]

when they close do they go into the rock or do they look like a polyp if the go into the rock they are not palys

 

[ifirefight]

 

[viper_930]

I still say they're definitely palys.

 

[reefkprz]

that is what I call a "sleeper" protopalythoa if you hit it with pure actinic light I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts it glows green.

 

[miaheatlvr]

I second PALYS, MOJANO'S are usuall more transparent and not as dense in color.

 

[kidreef]

palys if thats when they are closed all the way

 

[bronco300]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
that is what I call a "sleeper" protopalythoa if you hit it with pure actinic light I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts it glows green.

dollars to doughnuts????

i agree with palys!

 

[ifirefight]

Originally Posted by kidreef
palys if thats when they are closed all the way
Yeah,The last picture is a few seconds after I touched it.

 

[ifirefight]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
that is what I call a "sleeper" protopalythoa
Why a "sleeper" ? BTW, I get the dollars to doughnut saying. If I were to guess I would assume you and I are a little older than Bronco....Kids these days arent up and all the old school lingo

 

[bronco300]

Originally Posted by ifirefight
Why a "sleeper" ? BTW, I get the dollars to doughnut saying. If I were to guess I would assume you and I are a little older than Bronco....Kids these days arent up and all the old school lingo

now now here...kid?? watch it buddy!!

 

[reefkprz]

Ok, sleeper. if you know cars at all (i'm not really a gear head but I am a redneck) A sleeper is a car that looks stock untill you stomp on the gas and it blows the doors off almost anything. the sleeper paly (I dubbed it thus) is because it looks like a plain brown protopaly, not really exciting (if you run heavy on your actinics during your regular lighting phase you can see more green). switch to actinics and BANG the green blows the doors off some fancier looking corals.
dollars to dougnuts.. My grandfather used to say it all the time.

 

[theappe3]

why a "sleeper"?

 

[reefkprz]

just as an added bit of info, the whiteish line running from the mouth to the edge of the disk supports the fact that its not a aip, or majano, they dont have the white line, all "sleeper" palys have it