I thought I had seen it all as far as ‘named’ polyps until I saw them compared to pure bred dogs.
It appears to me that people who are fond of names want it all ways. They won’t accept a ‘true’ Perun PPE if it does not look like one, and they won’t accept a LFS bought one because it does not have ‘true’ lineage. I have no personal experience with PPE’s, but I promise a Perun won’t look correct under my lights, which contain no actinics. So if I purchased some I would be out of luck, because those with other Perun's would reject it, no matter what the paperwork.
It’s important to never forget that what we are discussing are color morphs, not species or sub-species. My take from the linked article is that even the ‘true’ Perun is a color morph. What does ‘months to color up’ mean? To me it means they morphed under lights different than what they had in the ocean, probably brighter and bluer. From what did they morph from? We have no pictures but I assume it was a red/brownish. So to say a polyp that does the same morph is not a ‘true’ one even though it looks EXACTLY the same is not being consistant.
It’s all money. Nobody who purchases a ‘true’ polyp for 50 (or whatever they go for) will accept a wild as ‘true’ no matter what. It devalues what they have, particularly if the ‘false’ grows fast. Conveniently the standards can change, it can be color, or growth speed, or if those match, it can be lineage. It keeps them ‘rare’. All the better if the dismissal is arbitrary.
At least when I take my PB great dane from the kitchen to the back yard it stays the same, no matter the lighting. He won’t switch from a brindle to a bi-color.
Not true for polyps.
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