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02/20/2018, 02:43 PM | #1 |
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Coral ID help.
I just got these guys today and I was curious if anyone knew what they were called. Also, what are the little orange/rust polyps on the base of the frag of the first pic?
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02/20/2018, 02:46 PM | #2 |
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Those little orange polyps your seeing look like the remnants of a Montipora digitata coral. I'm not sure about the zoanthids though.
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02/20/2018, 05:34 PM | #3 |
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They are all zoanthid sp. The names are arbitrarily made up solely for marketing purposes.
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02/20/2018, 10:39 PM | #4 |
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Yep, all zoanthids.
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02/22/2018, 09:41 PM | #5 |
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Thanks for the replies! I knew they were all zoanthids but I was curious if there was any common marketing names for them. Some of the names are quite interesting (ex. Gorilla Nipples lol...)
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02/23/2018, 11:12 AM | #6 |
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Yeah, some of those names are a little ridiculous, but the ones that are "on the level" so to say do help distinguish one Zoanthid from the other.
http://zoaid.org/gmedia-gallery/zoanthidae/ |
02/26/2018, 10:41 PM | #7 |
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can someone help me
I dont know what this is and today it has swollen to twice that size. Is this a bad thing
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02/26/2018, 10:50 PM | #8 |
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This is the pics
Any help with the id is appreciated also if anyone knows why it has swollen that would also help.
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02/26/2018, 11:01 PM | #9 |
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that's a lps coral looks like a variety of open brain coral the swelling is it opening up.
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02/26/2018, 11:45 PM | #10 |
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thank you
Thanks for the help so i guess its ok that its swelling. That makes me feel better
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02/27/2018, 03:13 AM | #11 |
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Certainly not a zoa specialist by any means, but those look to be all black. Only ones I've seen that are black they call Darth Mauls.
Zoa names are a marketing gimmick to get people to buy the ultra rare neon orange super duper party popper zoas. With a name like that you can expect to pay 100$ a polyp. lmao The funny thing is you can go to any number of different LFS's and see the same morph, yet it will have several different names and prices.
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