Tiny polyps

[jones2270]

Does anybody have any species of tiny zoathids, i'm talking really small, like the size of a blunt pencil point? I bought a frag of favia a couple months ago and it had 1 small purple and green polyp on it, I thought it might be an immature polyp and thought nothing of it ,but it has started spreading and none of the polyps have got any bigger size. Just wondering if anyone else has any polyps that stay so small.

 

[Fishindude88]

I have seen my polyps stay very small for some reason, I couldn't pinpoint it. I thought it might have been a lighting thing, too many daylights and not enough actinic.

 

[jones2270]

I have other polyps in my tank of different species and they are all of normal size. These actually seem to be naturally tiny

 

[NCNBilly]

Some pictures would be helpful.

 

[Fishindude88]

Sounds interesting. Good luck with them. I would like to see a picture if you could post one.

 

[mfinn]

I have some of the Hells Angels that were so tiny when I got the frag, I was really disapointed. All I had seen of them were pictures with nothing else in the picture to compare them too.
These you really do have to have a macro mode on your camera to see them clearly.

 

[Nemo Niblets]

I have seen zoas that tiny! I think they're cool, but I can only handle a few before my head starts to hurt.

 

[handfed]

I have some of the Hells Angels that were so tiny when I got the frag, I was really disapointed. All I had seen of them were pictures with nothing else in the picture to compare them too.
These you really do have to have a macro mode on your camera to see them clearly.

thanks for the heads up on those. Ive been wanting to get some, but if they are that small I may rethink that

 

[jones2270]

I will post pictures tonight. They have nice color, green centers and purple skirts, but are so small its hard to see 1 or 2 of them, if they covered a large area they would make a nice display.

 

[jones2270]

Horrible pic but here they are

 

[bigfig]

I have some tiny one's that have multiplied but have never gotten any larger. They are the green ones with the red skirt.

 

[jones2270]

mine look to be alot smaller than those, I could probably fit 10+ in a normal size polyp.

 

[bigfig]

Wow that is small! Would be interesting to see if any of them morph to normal size after a few years.

 

[mfinn]

mine look to be alot smaller than those, I could probably fit 10+ in a normal size polyp.

The Hells Angels are about 2mm each.
They aren't going to get any bigger