Need help ID: Gig or Haddoni

[nemoboy1]

Red gig or haddoni?

 

[sesheru95]

Do you happen to have a picture of the underside? Though I personally have ever seen a reg gig.

 

[D-Nak]

My initial reaction is multicolor gig. My gig looks similar under LEDs. But I would be interested in seeing more photos. And I doubt it's red.

 

[Daniel62]

Tentacles are pretty long for a Haddoni

 

[nemoboy1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUbBTnYNZYM



My first reaction when I saw it was a red gig looking at just the top half but when looking at the bottom half (foot) it's totally a red Haddoni. Unless there are such a thing as hybrid.

 

[marc price]

It is a Red S. haddoni

 

[Dkuhlmann]

If it is in fact a red haddoni, that's pretty cool and very rare.

 

[marc price]

Re: questionable i.d.'s and the possibility of hybirdization -
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2275962&page=3

 

[D-Nak]

It is a Red S. haddoni

+1. The video shows a haddoni with longish tentacles. Just goes to show that a photo can be very deceiving.

 

[marc price]

+1. The video shows a haddoni with longish tentacles. Just goes to show that a photo can be very deceiving.

True that.
I'll take it a step further to say a ~10" S. haddoni I purchased at Petco back in the late 1990's, at one point when new and settling into the aquarium had displayed thin longish for S. haddoni tentacles which vibrated! At the time it had been wandering around a 72"x18" footprint aquarium crushed coral substrate and was situated in direct flow of the what was the most powerful powerhead of the era. The S. haddoni had moved yet again the next day thus returning to displaying a short tightly packed tentacle appearance. It continued to go thru expanding and contraction to a very small size and back again for a couple weeks prior to settling in and looking like a typical S. haddoni.
Here is a pic of it grown out to ~20" diameter with resident A. polymnus -

 

[marc price]

Dug up another good "possible haddoni x gigantea hybird" link for ya -
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1904903