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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15019249#post15019249 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kdocimo90
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15019249#post15019249 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kdocimo90
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15019807#post15019807 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dots
Look, I am the first to admit the naming thing is ridiculous, which is probably why I havn't been buying anything.
Sadly though, I do collect and search out those high dollar and rare/elusive LE's.......and took a lot of time to understand this mess......and it has many factors and reasons why its so confusing.
At the heart of it....its the money factor. People name things just to name them, or call them "True" when they are just "Truely trans-shipped".
collecting the named pieces isn't about that.......its about networking, interacting with other likeminded reefers who have the same passions and values you do, and first and foremost.....trust.
This is how an individual hobby can become a community.....and quickly shut out the quick buck scam artists that would love to prey on my passion and overcharge..........
I like the descriptive part you wrote.zoanthus gigantus that have a dark purple and blue face that is covered in a kaleidescope of faded neon turquoise overlapped by a galaxy of the same neon turquoise with pink and purple accents on the outer edge of the face and skirts
I agree.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15020062#post15020062 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by flyyyguy
I honestly dont mind the names. I kind of like them. As I said before, a simple trendy riciculous name can take the place of a paragraph of real descriptive terminology, especially in concern to polyps. We dont have hundreds of species of acropora and montipora to misidentify in our descriptions. We have just a handful of species that only the most knowledgable of hobbyists can even recognize, so its all about variants, and among reputable people a picture isnt even needed. ship it
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15045870#post15045870 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by goldmaniac
But if they morph in your tank and then look different, you can't claim them as Darth Mauls anymore. They're a morph of Darth Mauls, at best. If they start to resemble a different "name", then you should call them as such.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15046331#post15046331 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by flyyyguy
respectfullly very much disagree with this statement
just becasue it environmetnally morphs some does not make it a new a new and unique polyp deserving of a new and unique name, it makes it the same old polyp that it ever was, and in ideal tank conditions, it will always look more or less the same, or very similar, and giving it a new unique name, just completely undermines the name game in the first place, and does nothing but confuse things
a similar morph to darth mauls, would be a clearly different polyp, yet one that is not so differently unique that it is deserving of a new and unique name
jmho