New Zoas. So pretty....

[FeffersFish]

I wish I had a better camera...
These little pretties grew in only 5 months from a one polyp "hitchhiker" on a freebie SPS frag... In person they are lemonade yellow and cotton candy pink.
I wasn't much of a zoa fan, but these "girls" have converted me. :inlove: What do you guys think?

whole colony:

 

[gobind]

nice

 

[ecotoxlady]

Those are my favorite zoa morph....pink lemonaides....I've been looking everywhere for them so if you decide to frag please let me know

 

[raskal311]

IMO those are pali not zoos, I got these a month ago and think they rank top 4 in my collection.

picture is of a frag in my grow out tank. My main colony is actually growing on the same type of coral yours are on. They must have been from the same collection site. BTW these polyps got huge after about a week, one of the polyp is almost the size of a quarter.

 

[ecotoxlady]

I think they would classify as zoanthus gigantus but I could be wrong....either way I love them BTW YGPM!

 

[raskal311]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7608804#post7608804 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ecotoxlady
I think they would classify as zoanthus gigantus but I could be wrong....either way I love them BTW YGPM!

your probably right

 

[surfnvb7]

yup, zoanthid gigantus. very nice. everyone i know who has ever gotten a zoa hitchiker on an sps colony has always had an amazing one.

very cool. any idea what kind of sps it was? and where (what ocean) it came from?

 

[Biogirl361]

those are super cool! i want! :inlove:

 

[FeffersFish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7608914#post7608914 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by surfnvb7

any idea what kind of sps it was? and where (what ocean) it came from?

No clue.

 

[raskal311]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7608914#post7608914 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by surfnvb7
yup, zoanthid gigantus. very nice. everyone i know who has ever gotten a zoa hitchiker on an sps colony has always had an amazing one.

very cool. any idea what kind of sps it was? and where (what ocean) it came from?

I was thinking a cap when I first saw it but it may also be sometype of LPS.

 

[Biogirl361]

is only the skirt yellow or is there yellow on the inside too? i can't quite tell on the pic. either way if you're fragging in the future put me in line for a polyp or 2

 

[FeffersFish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7609381#post7609381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Biogirl361
is only the skirt yellow or is there yellow on the inside too? i can't quite tell on the pic. either way if you're fragging in the future put me in line for a polyp or 2

Some of the smaller/younger polyps have the barest hint of yellow around the mouth, but the large (dime size and bigger) are totally pink with a neon yellow mouth and skirt.

Is it normal for polyps to change color/ patterns as they mature?

 

[MarvinsReef]

very very nice morph..

Marvin

 

[Azurel]

Those are super.....Give some to ecotoxlady then she can give some to me and we will all be happy....LOL....Great pick up you got there....They would probably change me too.

 

[ecotoxlady]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7611015#post7611015 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Azurel
Those are super.....Give some to ecotoxlady then she can give some to me and we will all be happy....LOL....Great pick up you got there....They would probably change me too.

Giggle! Thanks for the support Azurel Hopefully I can work something out with Feffersfish because I used to have a beautiful colony of these (my picture is still up on zoaid) and I lost them last fall moving house (my nano crashed after the move )

 

[Biogirl361]

yes, give some to ecotox and then she can give some to azurel and then he can give some to me

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Sorry to hear about your nano May it NEVER happen again!

My long tank crashed once after a starfish died behind some LR, and I lost a bamboo cat shark, my first mandarin (That actually ate brine!!), a sea ray, show size vlamangi tang, mated false clowns, and a hippo tang. I still cry about it sometimes. Almost saved the shark, but in the end he kicked the bucket. Weird thing was the ray went first- almost immediately with red streaks on his belly that almost looked like he was hemorrhaging.

RIP Laurie

 

[ecotoxlady]

Thanks for the condolences Laurie and sorry to hear about all of your fish. It's incredibly painful to lose such beautiful animals be they fish or coral and now I have become a big proponent of sharing coral frags with at least one other reefer so I have someone to go back to if something bad happens with my tank. The hardest thing is that the rarest morphs are always so expensive so when I buy a frag it's usually too small to split between tanks. Those are always the ones worst hit too. Its always the rare and most expensive corals that die first when something goes wrong in a tank and invariably no matter how many precautions one takes, something will eventually go wrong. Anyway, sorry to highjack your thread Feffersfish!