Cleaners...

[goreefer]

That is what I was thinking. Mine do have an orange mouth.

 

[ct_vol]

Yours are nice though... Got a frag... lol I'm not sure if I have them or not...

 

[goreefer]

Eventually I will. At the rate that things are growing I will have a bunch of them soon.

 

[ct_vol]

They must be closely related to Evil Mel's then... lol




The hijack is now complete... :uzi:

 

[acrodave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11187005#post11187005 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by awcurl
Those are some of the coolest Zoa's for experimenting with. They will vary from having an almost black center to being predominantly white depending on where you place them in the tank. I even injected some of mine with zooxanthellae from different colored Zoa's and managed to get some orange to take, but the new color would'nt pass to the new growth.

how did you do that?

 

[goreefer]

Sorry Tangboy, but we just could not resist!!!LOL

 

[awcurl]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11187349#post11187349 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
What made you think to try that??? I'm pretty surprised the orange took... Too bad they didn't spread... That would have been cool... Do you have any pics of the Orange Evil Mel's???

Sorry guy’s, I quit following this thread after I posted. The reason I tried injecting Zoa’s was because I thought it may be a way of turning plain Zoa’s into something more desirable, kind of like they do with clams. I basically dissected an orange Zoa and removed the orange tissue and then using an insulin syringe injected the tissue containing the orange zooxanthellae into a bleached Evilmel. All of the test Zoa’s opened back up after a few days and had color change but after the test Zoa’s regained their original color, the orange faded away. I was only able to get the color to take in one Zoa but it never transferred to the offspring.

Here is the original thread.
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[Runner]

Sounds like a neat experiment you performed. If you write it up in an essay format, I'd post that in our articles section.