Enough with Petco, I need help to ID zoas/palys

letik

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I have several palys and zoas in my 10 gallon tank. It was a present from a friend and I have no clue what their names are? I have them for 2 weeks and they grew in size - not numbers.

I'm asking for your help to ID! Not sure which ones are plays and which are zoas though. Does it mater ?

Here is a tiny pic of my tank on reefcentral. But click on the link to open full size album on picasa.

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Full size Pictures HERE


On Picasa...

4-th foto from the left look at 3 groups of zoas/palys on
a single rock..
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1. top-left [brown center, with green rim] zoa/paly ?
2. top-right [tall palys/zoas with pink center and brown rims] ?
3. bottom-left [ brown with a light tint of green, rim looks like there are some sugar grain size knots.
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If you look all the way to the right, on a separate rock or at the next photo.
These look like zoas (small) ? Most are small, brown in color. There is a tiny group of 4-5 of green-silver ones on the same rock. The color is close to metal-light-green paint.

Also each of my palys/zoas rim in the 4-th photo is close to a 5 cent coin in diameter. Is it normal?


Sorry the colors are out of whack. I tried all WB settings on my 8 megapix canon thats the best I got.
 
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Here's the zoa and paly id section here http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=484

All I can tell you (because i'm new) is that the palys in the upper left of your photo are called the "purple people eater" type. They have the green mouth in the middle, and the green skirt, and the brownish purple face area.
If you ask in the zoa id section at the link above, those folks will probably know what they others are.
Good luck. :)
 
Looks like you have some PPEs ( maybe need to see more upclose pics ), form of AOG or similar type zoanthus gigantus, a form of protopalythoa
 
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