what's the funniest/crazy/$tupid name you seen labeled on a zoa/paly/polyp ?

[650-IS350]

I know folks here have seen some pretty creative/funny/stupid/don't make sense name on polyps. What kinda names have you seen. I've seen too many that sometimes makes you roll your eyes and smirk. So tell what you've seen

Some out there do match the look or patern of the polyp, some have a totally funky name that doesn't match the polyp, some are just some ugly polyps that someone put a name for reasoning of selling it for more. A good place to get a laugh about the names people use is on ebay.

[Guygettnby]

the hassell paly has got to be the stupidest i have ever seen.

[650-IS350]

I think that has more to do to poke fun at polyp names than anything IMO>

funny to me is deepwaters that have rings are being called purple hornets #2's or 2nd generation etc.. etc... etc.

2. Sex w/machines zoanthids
3. Homey the clowns

[iFisch]

I think they're all stoooopid. :p

They're either Paly's, or Zoa's. Some look better than others. That's all I care about.

[ed102475]

Baby got back . stupid name.Sorry if the person who named this zoa reads this but it's JMO.

http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=2015

[stoneroller]

Scrambled eggs

[jameswredzinak]

Any named after a sports team. lol, I'm sure the zoas were around before the team.

[iFisch]

Reverse Gorilla Nipples Zoas! Rare!!


LMAO! :lol:

[Reef Bass]

+1 for Gorilla Nipples!

[Fishindude88]

Anything called "hornet" that isn't purple hornet or blue hornet annoys me. Can you not come up with another cool name? How about other stinging insects like wasps? Green Mosquito Zoanthids would be creative. Fire Ant Red Palys is another option.

[ZOAKEEPER]

That's a loaded question.....There all goofy. The question is... What's the most original? Not borrowed, ie; "Purple People Eater" As far as naming and selling, your dead on.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15231298#post15231298 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Bass
+1 for Gorilla Nipples!

:lol:

What the heck does a "reverse" Gorilla nipple look like anyways!? LMAO



I'm going to start naming mine after pieces of animals too! Like triple reverse sunset Gorilla brains... :eek1: :rollface:

[650-IS350]

crazy skirts? I dont' see anything crazy about them skirts.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15232681#post15232681 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
crazy skirts? I dont' see anything crazy about them skirts.


? :confused:

[650-IS350]

go see coralpedia.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15232736#post15232736 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
go see coralpedia.



Gotcha. :)

[dark_stranger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15229420#post15229420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iFisch
I think they're all stoooopid. :p

They're either Paly's, or Zoa's. Some look better than others. That's all I care about.

+ n

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15233149#post15233149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dark_stranger
+ n


+ n? What's that mean? lol

[JMalone81]

Reverse Gorilla Nipples +1.How did someone come up with that?

[Lucky.U]

David Hasselpalys

[650-IS350]

It's a stupid funny name, but I take it as it works as most know this name. for a ok looking polyp.

[dark_stranger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15233167#post15233167 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iFisch
+ n? What's that mean? lol

most people put "+1" but i hate the whole naming thing with a passion, so put "+n" meaning "+infinate".

Probably still about as clear as mud.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15236738#post15236738 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dark_stranger
most people put "+1" but i hate the whole naming thing with a passion, so put "+n" meaning "+infinate".

Probably still about as clear as mud.


Gotcha. Where does all this lingo come from? I haven't heard of so many acronyms in my life, before coming on here...

lol

[650-IS350]

Aids in less typing to do to get your point through,.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15237183#post15237183 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
Aids in less typing to do to get your point through,.


So in order to skip a few letters, I have to read a "book" on internet lingo? :lol:

This isn't directed to any single person here, but why not learn how to type? I took typing class in high-school, and I can type faster than I can think. There's typing classes online, etc.

And if you're really that bad, there's speech recognition software you can install on your computer, and just speak what you want to say. ;)


This is all off-topic, let's get back on topic.

[650-IS350]

Look at it as like " SHORT HAND "

[PauChi]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15229103#post15229103 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350

funny to me is deepwaters that have rings are being called purple hornets #2's or 2nd generation etc.. etc... etc.



I have seen all the posted Purple Hornets name threads being plastered all over RC and even our local Forum and not until now that I never knew it was some form of deepwater zoas ... like I really care omigosh!! :lol:

Some of these named Zoas are stupendously :rolleye1: !! Next newly discovered Zoa/Paly I will name it Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! .... :lol:

Paul

[dark_stranger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15236863#post15236863 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iFisch
Gotcha. Where does all this lingo come from? I haven't heard of so many acronyms in my life, before coming on here...

lol

I was just being a geeky programmer (n as a variable to store any value) , but also hate txt talk, etc and prefer the queens english :D

Plus can touch type quicker than most can visually type, but were going slightly off track here.

[Patwa]

I love the whole naming thing as much as the next guy, but some people take it too far by adding their own name to the official name.....or worse yet, they're a small-time frag chop-shop who happened to score a nice colony and now they want to brand it so people can associate the morph with them....lame.

The most stoopid:

PPRPE
Flaming PPRPE


BUT what constitutes a 'good' name, you ask? I dunno...it's all relative...that being said, be clever, original, use your imagination....simple as that.

[650-IS350]

I love the whole naming thing as much as the next guy, but some people take it too far by adding their own name to the official name.....or worse yet, they're a small-time frag chop-shop who happened to score a nice colony and now they want to brand it so people can associate the morph with them....lame.
It's all about marketing, having a catchy name and especially if your the first to bring that specific coral out to the market.... means $$$$.

Some people get a kick of having a coral/polyp named after them or named by them. To each to his own I guess. But I find it sometimes funny or ridiculous at times with the names

[evsalty]

Why not just call them by there colors? Yes I understand they might reseamble something out there in the world but hey I am sure that they also reseamble more then a few other things out there as well.

Also a lot of zoas/palys can "morph" to another color or just plain look a different color under different lighting. Then someone calls them by a new name and wam bam thank you maam we now have another variety of zoas even though they are the same.

I have some palys that came with red skirts and beige centers that now have orange skirts and orange centers. What are those called.......PALYS if you ask me.

[650-IS350]

Why not just call them by there colors? Yes I understand they might reseamble something out there in the world but hey I am sure that they also reseamble more then a few other things out there as well. No arguement from me on that but surely a lot would think otherwise.

[Patwa]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15243766#post15243766 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
It's all about marketing, having a catchy name and especially if your the first to bring that specific coral out to the market.... means $$$$.[/B]

I guess I should clarify my statement....i'm referring to Zoaid....the only definitive source for names, imo. Who Dah? worked hard to create that site.....it boasts a wide variety of content, almost all provided by reefers like you and me.

Thus, if some flavour-of-the-month chop shop wants to use sites like Zoaid to help line his/her pockets with more cash by trying to attached their business with "their" named coral, then I have a problem with that.....and for what it's worth, my support for Zoaid will probably stop.

If they want to market it, find another way.

Naming corals is almost all fun and games - that's the way it started with Perun naming the PPE .......but naming something just so you can charge more $$ is lame (did i mention that already? :))

[650-IS350]

Its the way of business with corals now a days.. Go look at SPS and LPS.

I do use Jeremey's site to get a general look see on what that specific coral looks like and the general concensous on the specific identifying name is for that polyp. It's good for general ID.

I don't use the name for better pricing, better trade or what so ever. But what I don't like is the same freakin polyp named 100 different names and priced at 1mil different price tags for the same polyp just with a different name and cause it was exported from a different site in the world.

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15244428#post15244428 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
But what I don't like is the same freakin polyp named 100 different names and priced at 1mil different price tags for the same polyp just with a different name and cause it was exported from a different site in the world.


Yep, me too. That's why names = stooopid. I check out the colors. Like this sweet find I just got.


It's got the "rainbow" tag attached to it, but to me, a "rainbow" has many colors. As do these paly's. Got about 20 polyps.


http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7555/img9018.jpg

[650-IS350]

Nice " RAINBOW " morphs...

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15249165#post15249165 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
Nice " RAINBOW " morphs...

I agree. I have seen other "rainbow" labeled stuff, but not quite of this quality.

Expensive, yes. But I will be getting about 20 polyps. Ordered last night.

[Patwa]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15244428#post15244428 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
Its the way of business with corals now a days.. Go look at SPS and LPS.

No.

It's the way it's done in the US. You guys stand alone....you take the whole (reef aquarium) free enterprise thing to whole new levels the rest of the world never really experiences (thankfully).

Every Yank with a Dremel, a business loan and a basement tries to make a buck by out-fragging, out-naming, out-photoshopping the next guy. You guys take the cake for the all-mighty reef $$$ scramble. Do y'all have any idea how much of the ultra-grade acans that came into the US in the early months of the acan craze came from Canada? (ie. Toronto) You guys had the $ signs in your eyes so much so that you had to swipe them from under our own noses! hahah (no, no, i'm not ticked off...ok....maybe a wee bit! lol)

The Aussies finally smartened up and expanded their exporting contracts and look what happened...acan mania sweeps America! $1000 colonies, "colonies" with only 40-50 polyps, Rainbow this, Rainbow that.... even scolymia australis specimens going for thousands of dollars. Insane.

Not to say it doesn't happen in Canada and any other reef-heavy countries, but you guys do it on such a loud, large scale that it makes an near-mockery of the whole frag-retail business imo, while at the same time overshadowing some aspects of the worldwide coral/frag trade.

Germans and Japs, who are, for all intents and purposes, light years ahead of you and I, don't buy, chop and sell in the same feverish way you guys do, make no mistake.


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15244428#post15244428 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
But what I don't like is the same freakin polyp named 100 different names and priced at 1mil different price tags for the same polyp just with a different name and cause it was exported from a different site in the world.

A victim of your own doing? (of course, I don't mean you in particular! but you get the idea)

Zach

[650-IS350]

CAPITALISM it's the america way AYE?

[dark_stranger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15249165#post15249165 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
Nice " RAINBOW " morphs...

Dont you mean "Rare Rainbow Hornet Morph"

[iFisch]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15250855#post15250855 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dark_stranger
Dont you mean "Rare Rainbow Hornet Morph"

Black Indonesian reverse monkey nipples sunshine rainbow's. That's what he meant. :lol:

[evsalty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15249540#post15249540 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Patwa
No.

It's the way it's done in the US. You guys stand alone....you take the whole (reef aquarium) free enterprise thing to whole new levels the rest of the world never really experiences (thankfully).

This is also why we have car company names like Acura, Lexus, and Infinity. Outside the states, those same cars go by their true company names. But I wonder if you went to an LFS in Japan what their zoas would be called. Perhaps American shallow water zoas lol.

[650-IS350]

any polyp that resembles a polyp that has multiple colors that resembles coloration varations like a rainbow , I would deem a rainbow polyp.