Zoo Experts - Help ID Please?
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flricordia
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Last either Pink Zoot or Twilight pink. Either name would appy since theya re the same, just given different names. Pink Zoot would probably apply more so if the central ring were more defined. I find it difficult to define between Eagle eye and Wammin Watermelon, the later probably reserved for the more intense red/green of the two. Personally I think Wammin watermelon should apply only if the are light colored/white markings on the red disk. Eagle eyes are very common and one or the other name should apply to something with more definded features. Eagle eye always applies to yellow skirt, but this can change over time to green.
#3 could also be alpha/omega morph
You pretty much named them all already.
#3 could also be alpha/omega morph
You pretty much named them all already.
rebelprettyboy
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4 does look more like eye of rah.
and last looks like Twlight pinks to me.
and last looks like Twlight pinks to me.
jpc763
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Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2628625
4 does look more like eye of rah.
and last looks like Twlight pinks to me.
Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628616
it could be a morph of them. did you look at the eye of rahs. I think they are a lot closer to them than the green bays
So I looked at the Eye of Rah and the skirt on my one's are a much darker shade of green and there appears to be a distinct blue ring that I do not have. I looked at an older picture of the same colony and the colors have changed slightly.
http:///forum/post/2628625
4 does look more like eye of rah.
and last looks like Twlight pinks to me.
Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628616
it could be a morph of them. did you look at the eye of rahs. I think they are a lot closer to them than the green bays
So I looked at the Eye of Rah and the skirt on my one's are a much darker shade of green and there appears to be a distinct blue ring that I do not have. I looked at an older picture of the same colony and the colors have changed slightly.
jpc763
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Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628634
I still think the #3 is butterfly wings by the structure of the polyp
and I am with Flricordia on the last being pink zoot suit after looking at a few more pictures of them.
Mike
I can't find butterfly wings on that site. Is it there?
Brain damage... I found it. Sorry.
Hmmm Butterfly Wings is close. That site has them with a green mouth. Mine do not have that.
http:///forum/post/2628634
I still think the #3 is butterfly wings by the structure of the polyp
and I am with Flricordia on the last being pink zoot suit after looking at a few more pictures of them.
Mike
I can't find butterfly wings on that site. Is it there?
Brain damage... I found it. Sorry.
Hmmm Butterfly Wings is close. That site has them with a green mouth. Mine do not have that.
jpc763
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Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628642
is the above picture the same colony?
yeah the ones do have a green mouth but the other characteristics are there thats why I am thinking its a color morph of them.
Mike
The picture in post#9 is the same colony as Zoo #3. It is the picture of when I got the colony.
http:///forum/post/2628642
is the above picture the same colony?
yeah the ones do have a green mouth but the other characteristics are there thats why I am thinking its a color morph of them.
Mike
The picture in post#9 is the same colony as Zoo #3. It is the picture of when I got the colony.
jpc763
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Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628649
are these the 2 you are talking about?
No. This colony
is now this colony Zoo 4
Sorry for the confusion
niskyvaulter
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i think zoo number 5 might be leprechauns.
flricordia
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Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2628783
ahh
well one thing with zooanthids is that they can morph and start out being one thing and turn into a completely different one than it started out to be,
Mike
I hear you on that. I am still trying to get over the changes that hapened in my Twilights. Some are now who knows what, but nothing like the origional colony. And they changed sitting no more than 10inches away from the ones that remained the same.
http:///forum/post/2628783
ahh
well one thing with zooanthids is that they can morph and start out being one thing and turn into a completely different one than it started out to be,
Mike
I hear you on that. I am still trying to get over the changes that hapened in my Twilights. Some are now who knows what, but nothing like the origional colony. And they changed sitting no more than 10inches away from the ones that remained the same.
flricordia
Active Member
Originally Posted by jpc763
http:///forum/post/2628875
I was totally unaware that they morphed in the tank.
So you can spend some big $$$ on some frag and have it change into something else?
I am only guessing but it seems the ugly ducklings are the ones to morph more so. It could be because of lighting (more than likely is due to this). The more drab polyps growing on lower shelf walls, collected and eventually deposited into closed reef systems where lighting is totally different morphing not only the zooxanthillae but the shape of the tenticles as the polyp tries to adjust to the new lighting.
Can also go the other way I have seen several times. A HOT zoanthid goes drab due to high/low light and possibly poor water conditions, though in reality it would perish in poor parameters from overgrowth of fungus, algea, etc.
http:///forum/post/2628875
I was totally unaware that they morphed in the tank.
So you can spend some big $$$ on some frag and have it change into something else?
I am only guessing but it seems the ugly ducklings are the ones to morph more so. It could be because of lighting (more than likely is due to this). The more drab polyps growing on lower shelf walls, collected and eventually deposited into closed reef systems where lighting is totally different morphing not only the zooxanthillae but the shape of the tenticles as the polyp tries to adjust to the new lighting.
Can also go the other way I have seen several times. A HOT zoanthid goes drab due to high/low light and possibly poor water conditions, though in reality it would perish in poor parameters from overgrowth of fungus, algea, etc.