Are these yellow/orange skirt PE's or Eclipse?

[sugartooth]

Hello,
These were sold to me as yellow skirt and orange skirt PE's. Then I had some people look at them and they thought these were more like the Lunar Eclipse.
I tried looking for the lines (when closed) and only saw on a few of them. I also can't tell if the mouth is a slit or not.
I also e-mailed the vendor questioning them, and they insist they are......
Either way, I still like them, whatever they are. For reference of what stuff looks like in the tank, I included what the red and green people eaters look like in my tank.

 

[JGoslee]

If they have green mouths then they are PE's. Its hard to tell from the pics but they do look like lunar eclipses.

 

[sugartooth]

Thanks! That's what I thought too, but when I questioned the vendor, they said there are PE's that don't have green mouths.
Is that true?

 

[JGoslee]

Ive never seen a PE without a green mouth.

 

[gflat65]

The green slit mouth making a zoa a PE is a commonly accepted idea (has kinda been agreed on within these and other forums, etc.). Most won't call something without the green slit mouth a PE, but vendors might... Looking at them, the coenenchyme looks like it is light colored and doesn't appear to have the white stripping under the oral disc when the polyp is closed. This may be a trick of the camera, but all PE's (all known so far) fall into the category of Zoanthus gigantus, which have a darker coenenchyme and the white striping under the oral disc. I'd say those are not PE's. The last pic definitely are, though (blue centered and stripped RPE's and the Chameleon People Charmers).

 

[sugartooth]

gflat65, Thanks a bunch for your input. I'm just glad I got these before the $$ skyrocketed on the site.
They sell these as PE's and over $100 for a colony!

 

[redFishblue]

They are not what anyone here would call a PE.
But the wholesellers seem to be calling them PE's anyway.

 

[twon8]

where did you get them?

 

[sugartooth]

Hi Twon8,
I got them from Extreme Corals. Lucky for me it was during their buy 2 get 1 free sale. Also, the prices were almost half of what they are now!

 

[reeffreak9]

Dont know the name but like them any way.