Knoxville Goodies

[mamagoose45]

I got these two last week when I was over in Knoxville from The Coral Reef...

Anyone know what these zoos are called? I would thank they have a name since they are the most yellow zoos I've ever seen. Sorry the pictures aren't crystal clear - they are in a bad part of the tank for picture taking...disregard the coraline as well, it's a shot from in the side of the tank.

Another of the zoos...

Random yuma ric rock that was too good of a deal to pass up. I'm hoping some of them color up a bit though.

Can anyone identify the random neon green goo on the top of the rock? It's hard to see in that picture, but it's the spot in the center, in the "clearing" on the rock. It's literally neon green, about the size of a grain of rice, maybe a bit bigger. If you want a mental comparison (although kind of gross) imagine what radioactive snot would look like...

 

[Fishboy42]

I don't know what kind those are, but I believe they are from Walt Smith. I saw a bunch of those mixed-zoanthid rocks there; nice stuff Maybe one of our connoisseurs can offer some insight though...Randy, Art, Mel, Dave, Brandon???
Actually, radioactive snot sounds like a good zoa name!

Matt

 

[DMBillies]

This is the closest thing I've been able to find on zoaid....eclipse yellow.

Ours have less yellow in the middle and probably have brighter yellow skirts (at least compared to the picture), but the colors are similar overall.

 

[SRT80]

could they be eclipse yellow?

http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=2156

Steve

 

[gflat65]

I was going to say a nice morph of the Dragon Eyes. Under the right lighting, the yellow skirts pop and glow. They are certainly popping right now. It looks like there may be a little yellow in the mouth area, too, which kinda throws me off... What lights are they under now?

The neon green thing might be a melting ric. Is it squishy like you might think radioactive snot might be? I've got one that looks similar on my biggest ric rock (not quite radioactive).

Is that staghorn in the ric shot receding?

 

[eyebedam]

Nice zoa lmk when you ready to frag.

 

[geekdafied]

Those are dragon eyes, good call Gary.
dragon eyes

 

[DMBillies]

Gary- The frag in the center is most certainly dead. I bought an acro colony and for whatever reason it just keeps RTNing. Everything else in the tank is fine, so I think maybe it just got beat down slowly from being in the LFS tank and the move to my tank stressed it out enough that it won't bounce back. Don't really know, but doesn't seem to be predator related. I still have a few frags that are hanging on, but I had to break a 6" colony down to about 10 little frags to try to remedy the problem... heartbreaking really.

The stag in the top left is the one I just got from Kristof. The bottom was receding (I never saw it get worse, but it clearly lost some tissue in the not so distance past), but doesn't seem to be going anywhere anymore. The coral body and polyps are darkening up a little bit (even since the pic was taken...which makes it look lighter than it is) and it looks like it's stabilized in my tank. He must have gotten crazy growth out of these corals (they are huge- probably 11 inches across in every direction and he said he only had them a year or something like that) but they both look a little bit bleached out. They have had good polyp extension since I got them and they seem pretty happy. Hopefully they just keep on keepin' on.

 

[gflat65]

Given the right environment, they'll be fine. I have gotten a few in the past that were STN'ing. Somehow despite the fluctuation in Calcium and Alk, they healed up and then colored up great (green slimer is one of them, if you remember how it looks). Stress can cause some crazy things...

 

[Angela Short]

My radioactive dragon eyes were crazy yellow looking when they first came into the store. Thats the reason I bought them No light and bad stress from shipping makes the colors on zoas look way off from what they will eventually turn in your tank. Good looking stuff though!

 

[mamagoose45]

Gary, the zoos are under 2 150W HQI Coralife MH Pendants