Is it possible to "make" new color morphs?

[Brock Fluharty]

Is it posible to say put a red zoa colony next to a green one, and have them grow together to produce a zoa that is red and green? I was thinking last night..."How do we have so many zoa colors?" Sorry if this question is completely ridiculous, but I thought I would ask. I have some nice ones, and if nobody know if this would be possible or not, i'll try!

:bum:

Thanks!!!
Brock

 

[Brock Fluharty]

? Nobody ?

 

[Reef Junkie]

Thank god, no!
Combine ROYGBIV, and all of our zoas would be brown by now.

 

[TheBigOne]

they would grow onto one rock, not somehow combine and create a new color. that would be like placing one breed of dog NEXT to another and expecting puppies. corals are animals, they can't... um.... work miracles.

your best bet is to find a morph no one has named, think of the most off the wall name, and post photos here and get zoaid.com to post it as well.

 

[limestro]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8020584#post8020584 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TheBigOne
they would grow onto one rock, not somehow combine and create a new color. that would be like placing one breed of dog NEXT to another and expecting puppies. corals are animals, they can't... um.... work miracles.

your best bet is to find a morph no one has named, think of the most off the wall name, and post photos here and get zoaid.com to post it as well.

LOL. Thats true, it seems that zoaid now a days if flooded with pictures of zoas that are basically morphs of each other and are passed on as a different name. If you pay attention to some of those pictures, they are basically the same colony under different lighting, morphed under different lighting configurations, taken w/ or w/out flash, photoshoped, etc. For example, the "Kiwi Stars" that are a recent addition to the website are basically "Radioactive Dragon Eye" morphs. I got my "Kiwi" colony from a local member and when you put two and two side by side the are simliar with exception to the spreckles. Another example, the "Enigmas" and the "Incredible Hulks" are similar. The "Enigmas" are just a mature colony blasted under MH lighting.

Hope this helps.

~Mike

 

[Brock Fluharty]

But how do we get new morphs then?

 

[limestro]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8020780#post8020780 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by limestro
...morphed under different lighting configurations

 

[TheBigOne]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8020880#post8020880 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brock Fluharty
But how do we get new morphs then?

its natural color variation in the species. you cant "make" anything until we learn to spawn them in captivity. instead we can propagate them by "cloning" them by getting them happy enough to produce a new polyp.

learn to spawn the coral, pick out the domiant trait and repeat until you get what you want.

but, that's not possible in the hobby right now. so it's impossible to "make" a new color from two existing colors.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Ok, I understand now. So in the ocean, new color morphs just sort of "appear"?

 

[BS]

:fun1: that's all there is to it :smokin:

 

[whodah]

(in chef's voice)

Ohh, children, you just can't stick a drunk 'eagle eye' with a drunk 'pink panther', and, and, expect them to do the matress mambo. You need to set the mood.



joking aside, check out this thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=665655