New topic here- ( What is YOUR PERSONAL favorite non-LE,cheap, or common zoo/paly ?

[650-IS350]

What is YOUR PERSONAL favorite non-LE,cheap, or common zoo/paly/protopaly?

1) Why did you pick it up/purchase it?
2) Did you do some thinking to it (more flow , lighting etc ) that it ended up turning out to be something else?
3) Why is it special to you?
4) Did you place it in your tank to showcase it, if so where?
5)Did it morph or started to look like something else over time?
6)You can add more reasonings here.

*This is not intended to become a flame war. This is just a place to read stories, get a feel for what others have found and why they like it. We want everyone one to contribute to this, don't need to be a pro here. begginers are highly welcomed as well as our seasoned pro's too* (PLEASE REMEMBER THIS)


MY ANSWER- " Whamming water melons or eagle eyes "

1)Got it for color contrast and fast growth
2) Nothing done to it.
3) simple piece, retains coloration and everyone that I know thats seen them loves them.
4) It sets a good color contrast agains the chalices that surround it.
5)No morph but I traded/bought different morphs, blue rings, full reds, blue rings etc.
6) 1 of the first zoos that I really wanted when I first got into zoas

 

[flyyyguy]

easy answer there for me

sunbursts. Its common, and typically a rust skirted polyp in many tanks, but under high light it is a superstar IMO.

 

[MUCHO REEF]

My personal favorite is a large solid blue disc palythoa with long blue at times cork screw skirts.


1) Why did you pick it up/purchase it? Gorgeous and Cheap. Never seen anything anywhere like it. Everyone was looking at popular polyps and I found it just sitting there.


2) Did you do some thinking to it (more flow , lighting etc ) that it ended up turning out to be something else? No, just placed it.

3) Why is it special to you? The size of the polyps and the solid color blue of the entire polyp.

4) Did you place it in your tank to showcase it, if so where? No special place, lower middle left.

5)Did it morph or started to look like something else over time?
It stayed the same and that is what I hoped it would do.


6)You can add more reasonings here.
Just crazy to look at is all.

 

[wrasseguy2]

one of my favorites is these palythoas that are green but sometimes look blue

1) Why did you pick it up/purchase it? I did not purchase it. These came as a hitchhiker on a hydnophora rock.


2) Did you do some thinking to it (more flow , lighting etc ) that it ended up turning out to be something else? I moved it out of the really strong flow and put it in a medium flow.

3) Why is it special to you?I have seen them grow from nothing looking like poo to the way they look now and i love the long skirts!!

4) Did you place it in your tank to showcase it, if so where? Nope just put them on a rock with some blue hairy mushrooms that I thought would look cool.

5)Did it morph or started to look like something else over time? It has got better color since I moved it. They use to look a pale white/yellow color but look more of a green/blue color.

6)You can add more reasoning here. I just love the skirts..I dig the longer skirts and have some other zoas in higher flow to keep longer skirts on them as well. Here is a pic of them.

 

[mfinn]

My favorite zoanthid is Eagle Eyes.
The first time I saw these I thought I'd found a gold mine.
Made em the center piece in my tank.

 

[650-IS350]

Nice start people.

Here's my whamming watermelon/Eagle eyes.

I have 4 different morphs. besides the one pictured, I have one with almost full red oral disk, blue rings and the other one instead of green skirts, it has orange skirts.

 

[650-IS350]

oops double post.

 

[wrasseguy2]

sweet delsol..i have a few different morphs of those too and would be a close 2nd to the ones i posted

 

[coralfarm123]

This morph is probably my favorite.

1. I purchased it because it really caught my eye and I thought it would look great in my tank.

2. It had the same color pattern when purchased, but it has gotten much more vibrant over time. I give it high light and good flow.

3. I like the color contrast.

4. I didn't place them in any particular spot to showcase them, but I do get a lot of comments on them when people see them in person. I keep them in my zoanthid area which is a pretty large section of my tank.

5. Same as #2

6. Has always been one of my overall favorites and I don't see that changing in the near future.

 

[MinibowMatt]

Re: New topic here- ( What is YOUR PERSONAL favorite non-LE,cheap, or common zoo/paly

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12105205#post12105205 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by delsol650

What is YOUR PERSONAL favorite non-LE,cheap, or common zoo/paly/protopaly?
The reds here:

they started as this frag:

1) Why did you pick it up/purchase it?
i got it as one of my first local contacts/trades

2) Did you do some thinking to it (more flow , lighting etc ) that it ended up turning out to be something else?
nope
3) Why is it special to you?
pretty and plain. dark, yet bright.

4) Did you place it in your tank to showcase it, if so where?
somewhat, it and a colony of EE's shared a corner of my nano for quite some time.

5)Did it morph or started to look like something else over time?
nope.
6)You can add more reasonings here.
I lost them to hair algae long ago in my minibow 7.
I miss that tank.

 

[bradleyj]

Here is my favorite. It came from my 65g about 18 months ago, just a small frag at the time, but has done very well in my 225g.

Is there a name for these? I'm not up on all the zoo names.

 

[FishyMel]

Definitely eagle eyes.

 

[650-IS350]

Sweet people, nice pics. Keep them coming.

 

[RevHtree]

At one time Eagle Eyes were very expensive and where all hyped up. That being said, Eagle eye's aka Whammin Watermelons are def my favorites!!

I need a new frag I lost mine somewhere...

 

[650-IS350]

Mines are growning from stick type branches instead of a matt or rock.

 

[650-IS350]

oops dp

 

[stoneroller]

1) Why did you pick it up/purchase it? I thought it was true Red People Eaters and I was so excited because they were cheap.

2) Did you do some thinking to it (more flow , lighting etc ) that it ended up turning out to be something else? No, I showed the polyps still in the bag to a fellow reefer and he said "put them up high".

3) Why is it special to you? First polyps that I superglued. Grew the from 3 individuals. These are larger in diam. than most other PE types I have seen. I call em Big PEs.

4) Did you place it in your tank to showcase it, if so where? In the center.

5)Did it morph or started to look like something else over time? No morphing. Just bigger and bigger.

6)You can add more reasoning here. Nothing ever seems to phase these, no die back, easy to frag and heals well, no disease, always open, just perfectly plain polyps.

 

[stoneroller]

PS. How do you do that double-posting thing? I want to try that some time! JK Charles.

 

[650-IS350]

looks nice, looks like some plum people eaters mixed with RPE's

 

[seapug]

The orange and black ones in the middle of this picture are my personal favs. This is a small frag that came off the main rock that I picked up for $5. I bought the rock because it fit in a spot I needed one and it had these closed polyps on it at the time. Only after I got it home and had it in the tank for a few days did I notice the color of the polyps. Still have never seen anything like it:

Here's the original rock with the main colony. (I need to Kalk nuke the gray Palys that are weeds in my tank)

I also really like the green and orange ones on the left of this photo:

Somebody probably has a name for all these, but I just bought them as random "zoanthid polyp rocks"