Sorry About The Ignorant Question, But...
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Originally Posted by metweezer
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What is a Paly? Is it a Zoo? What is the abbreviation stand for
Any light/flow requirements
Steve, if memory serves (cause I don't have any of my books handy), paly stands for palyzoa; a member of the zoanthid family, but generally larger. they generally are less demanding on light and flow requirements than "zoas". I'll double-check that tonight, but I believe that it is correct.
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What is a Paly? Is it a Zoo? What is the abbreviation stand for
Steve, if memory serves (cause I don't have any of my books handy), paly stands for palyzoa; a member of the zoanthid family, but generally larger. they generally are less demanding on light and flow requirements than "zoas". I'll double-check that tonight, but I believe that it is correct.
reefkprz
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here I'll try and lay it out straight if I can they all fall under the family Zoanthidae
then are sperated into four Genus, Zoanthus, Palythoa, Protopalythoa, Isaurus.
then seperated into individual species wich i'm not going to list as there are too many to conviniently type out.
there is research showing that the two genus Palythoa and protopalythoa may actually be one genus Palythoa BUT tazxonomic troubles never end. for now I am going to stick to calling them seperately untill I see more research on the matter.
Zoa and zoanthid are technically all four genus, but most people are refferring to zoanthus when they say Zoa or zoo. paly is just palythoa or protopalythoa, and isaurus are rarely seen in the hobby though slowly getting around.
then are sperated into four Genus, Zoanthus, Palythoa, Protopalythoa, Isaurus.
then seperated into individual species wich i'm not going to list as there are too many to conviniently type out.
there is research showing that the two genus Palythoa and protopalythoa may actually be one genus Palythoa BUT tazxonomic troubles never end. for now I am going to stick to calling them seperately untill I see more research on the matter.
Zoa and zoanthid are technically all four genus, but most people are refferring to zoanthus when they say Zoa or zoo. paly is just palythoa or protopalythoa, and isaurus are rarely seen in the hobby though slowly getting around.
reefkprz
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now as for flow and lighting. so far Every zoa and palythoa I have ever owned has done well in the highest lighting I could provide, some do equally well in suprisingly low light, but some cant handle really low light. Palythoa and protopalythoa adapt easiest to lowest lighting as they are organismal feeders too (aka capture food) far more aggressivly than zoanthus do as well as photosynthesizing , zoanthus being less adept at catching food rely mostly on photosynthesis AKA are mroe reliant on light. if placed in too low lighting the colors tend to fade out to brown to assist in photosynthesis. or the colony declines with out browning out first. flow can be hig to low as long as its not blasting the coral off the rock and as long as its enough to wash away detritus (corals poop too) over all I say they are fairly adaptable to a very wide range of situations, differences in lighting and flow can morph color and change appearances.
hope all my babble helps.
hope all my babble helps.
reefkprz
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Originally Posted by spanko
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+1 with all of the above, and would add that I have been told and shown that paly and protopaly have pointed tentacles where zoas have more rounded, for the most part.
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palythoa can have rounded tentacles like zoanthus, protopalythoa will always have pointy tentacles.
http:///forum/post/2596519
+1 with all of the above, and would add that I have been told and shown that paly and protopaly have pointed tentacles where zoas have more rounded, for the most part.
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palythoa can have rounded tentacles like zoanthus, protopalythoa will always have pointy tentacles.