ID confirming these are blue agaves

[metalmulisha]

I got these as blue agaves from a LFS in the bay awhile ago. I just grew it out and just now making frags, I waited so long with these frags that they grew multiple heads on the plugs. I'm pretty sure these are Blue agaves by comparing them to online pictures but wanted to get the publics opinion. I maybe putting it in a frag swap but don't want to get people mad since I've got screwed over many years back when it said one thing but it wasn't close to it LOL

mother colony

single head taken in my frag tank which was alot easier to take!

Frag...

Thanks

 

[A. Grandis]

You need to ask at the ID forum:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=484

Grandis.

 

[childress5tyler]

I vote yes be interested in selling a polyp?

 

[leveldrummer]

The names are just made up, and zoas and palys will shift their colors according to each enviroment. if you want to call them the same name as some other coral that is well known, you should try to trace them back to the original collector. since thats impossible, just call them what ever you want.

 

[metalmulisha]

The names are just made up, and zoas and palys will shift their colors according to each enviroment. if you want to call them the same name as some other coral that is well known, you should try to trace them back to the original collector. since thats impossible, just call them what ever you want.

Agree with you to an extent. I understand color shifts but a tubbs blue will stay a tubbs blue, armor of god samething etc.... Then their are some that will shift in color but it only shifts to an extent. These haven't shift from when it was fragged so their holding the lineage.

 

[benjaminspades]

its a blue agave

 

[reefwars]

The names are just made up, and zoas and palys will shift their colors according to each enviroment. if you want to call them the same name as some other coral that is well known, you should try to trace them back to the original collector. since thats impossible, just call them what ever you want.

that makes no sense and the same could be said about any coral really.

 

[zoafarm]

Yes, those are Blue Agava.

leveldrummer - Although I somewhat understand you, why have a Zoa Identification forum if all you're willing to do is say "name them yourself". Zoa names are useful, even if those same zoas may change slightly in different tanks. At least it is better than saying I looking for orange zoas, and then have to filter though 20 different people telling me they have orange zoas. Now, if I say I'm looking for Darth Maul zoas...I may have to filter a couple, but most of the replies will indeed be what I'm looking for.

 

[leveldrummer]

Yes, those are Blue Agava.

leveldrummer - Although I somewhat understand you, why have a Zoa Identification forum if all you're willing to do is say "name them yourself". Zoa names are useful, even if those same zoas may change slightly in different tanks. At least it is better than saying I looking for orange zoas, and then have to filter though 20 different people telling me they have orange zoas. Now, if I say I'm looking for Darth Maul zoas...I may have to filter a couple, but most of the replies will indeed be what I'm looking for.

my point is, if they look like blue agava, call them blue agava, they will color up, and people will know what they look like. they likely arent the same clones of the original colony that was named by whoever named them that.

those exotic name thing has gotten so rediculously out of hand, driving prices of pretty normal zoas up to over 50 bucks a polyp in some cases. i understand using a name to convey a design, but if OP thinks they look like blue agava, then go with it. no need to get everyones ID, its just a silly name some guy made up to make them sound more special then they really are.