Purple Hornet Zoas

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14897705#post14897705 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by areze
you dont want to understand anything, your not any good at disguising your insults.

Ive stated my opinion already, clear enough, by my definition of limited edition(not yours) I believe the PH is LE, but thats a personal distinction for myself, and would not need to call it that to describe it. If you ask me what LE corals I have, Ill include PH in the list. its simple as that.

if you want to twist words to start a fight, do it with someone else.

otherwise, grow up and stop crapping on threads
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WOW, I only just noticed this. I think you really have the wrong end of the stick here. This is the trouble with posting, you may read the post a different way than the poster wrote it. I can say from personal experience that mucho is NEVER intending to put anyone down nor trying to start a fight. He is one of the most knowlegable, generous, and experienced reefers out there when it comes to zoanthids and palythoas and I think your attack is very uncalled for.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14899978#post14899978 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dalston
http://zoaid.com/articles005.php
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Many of us owned this polyp many years prior to 2007 and no one wanted it. It didn't go unnoticed, no one wanted it whenever I saw it in stores. Someone gave it this name, hyped it on a few sights and here we are.

You're right 650-IS350, you've hit the nail on the head. All of the labels and extensions you mentioned are attached for one reason only and you've listed them. Do you think this is what reefing has come to and do you think it will stay? Just wondering what your opinion on this is.

Thanks my friend.

Mucho
 
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It is what it is now mooch. Unfortunately. Your seeing capitalism/marketing and supply and demand at its best. Do I think its good for the hobby in terms for polyps. NO.

But were here at this point. We can fight it,but as you see in a lot of heated threads about named polyps, LE... it goes no where. I think we can just accept that fact, teach people that want to be tought, LET THEM LEARN on their own.
 
You're right my friend. It's best to start our own thread on this. I want to put this thread back on topic out of respect to the OP.

Back to the PH's.
 
Many of us owned this polyp many years prior to 2007 and no one wanted it.

Can someone that has had the polyp 2 or more years ago post a picture of it back then to back up the claim? I'm not saying that you didn't have it back then, I'd just like to see the picture
Erik
 
Hello Erik, I don't have any pictures of that polyp. I doubt anyone from back then would have it. I really wish I had pictures of all the polyps I have ever owned, I did at one time but made a grave mistake and deleted them a few years back, darn it. I certainly have no reason to lie, and no, I'm not saying that you called me one.


Mucho
 
I have some that are said to be them but there has been some dispute.
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calling that a morph of a PH would be a stretch... purple and green is about where the similarities end, could find a million flavors that match that description. but it clearly is not a PH as we know it.

predescessor to it? if the story is true, then PHs were harvested from the wild as they are now. or there is someone somewhere that can say it transformed from that to what we have now. but I doubt this to be the case.

the PH is so interesting because it is so unique. its not the colors, its the crisp ring and the alternating skirt. I do not know of another zoa that has these same features, in any color. A PH can get blasted with light and maybe turn towards blue, but beyond that, if it gets a blurry gradient ring or loses the 2 tone skirt, its just no longer a PH, simple as that.

I myself wouldnt pay nearly as much for it, sure Id probably still buy it, but not for the 90$ I paid for the polyp I have.

buyers need to just check their sources, names are guides, but photos tell the full story. call it purple hornet, blue hornet, golden hornet, whatever. people need to do a little research before shelling out 50+$ a polyp to see that they are getting what they think they are getting.
 
Guys... no offense, but PLEASE stop bickering about whether or not some pic posts are "real" or why/why not we should pay these prices.

Like Mucho said, let's not hijack this thread. The price of polyps is what it is and unfortunatly there's not much we can do about it.

With that being said, on with the pics! :)
 
I was in one of our local reef shops a few weeks ago checking out some zoa's...one or two specific colonies stood out, both with very few polyps. I asked about them and one colony I asked him to split with me and he did. He (the owner) called them by name, me not being much on zoa's never heard of them...now I find this thread.

All I can say, is if you have not seen the PH in person most of these images don't really do it justice, I do not mean that as a stab at anyone heres photography skills but some are not even purple hornets and others either the white balance is really off or the lighting the polyps are under are just not bringing the colors out. Some day I will break out a camera and take a shot of mine, but need to get the new aquarium or a look down box to get a decent shot of them though. Its only 3 polyps right now but will be one of several colonies on the bottom of the new tank.

Again, I am not a huge zoa fan...becoming one though seeing some of the stuff that is available out there in these threads, but the purple in this zoa is really pretty. The thin circle and alternating skirt just really pull it off and think its going to look great as a 'rug' on the new reef setup no matter what I paid for it.
 
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