Will the real RPE please stand up?

TDonson,
hard to tell what yours are from that distance. most likely its the darker version of the RPE's w/out the stripes. still cool looking IMO. just give them alot of light. what are your lights? best IMO is MH.

Creetin,
i had no idea until about a month ago how *rare* the PRPE's were. now all of a sudden i've got a bunch of trades lined up which will cut my colony down by 2/3 :( just couldn't resist some of the trades people were offering. (pink elephants, purple deaths, armor of gods etc.) the only thing that will convince me to make another frag is a polyp for polyp trade of PPE's. cuz i STILL dont have those. ;)

...recently...a 6polyp frag of PRPE on ebay went for $220. :) make sense, it looks EXACTLY like the purple people eater, except with a pink/red skirt. i think they would look killer side by side.
 
I have them under 250W 20K MH with vho supplementation. I have started them in the bottom of the tank and will slowly raise them towards the top. You can't tell by the photo but they have a florescent green mouth. The rock cost a whopping $30 and it probably has 90 polyps on it.

Tonya
 
IMO you dont need the VHO on at the same time with the 20k's ;) it will just make stuff look look more "purple". and kill the true color of the reds (make them look maroonish).

i can see the green slit mouths. they are definitely zoanthid gigantus (i.e people eaters) ;)

i dont think they are the same RPE's as we posted above, but none the less.......they are red, and they are people eaters...thus RPE's :)
 
No biggie i know how it is chopping up your colony, Just got the ppe back myself, and a couple new morphs i havnt seen yet. (From some friends)
(One is the orange ones i talked about earlier, They have white skirts, But who knws what it will turn into with my lighting) I'll post pics once they settle down.
The thing with the purple red ppe i have heard of alot of people saying they died real easy, or for no reason. I have never exp that, But mine were mowed down.;) I had them for a year.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7635104#post7635104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Creetin
No biggie i know how it is chopping up your colony, Just got the ppe back myself, and a couple new morphs i havnt seen yet. (From some friends)
(One is the orange ones i talked about earlier, They have white skirts, But who knws what it will turn into with my lighting) I'll post pics once they settle down.
The thing with the purple red ppe i have heard of alot of people saying they died real easy, or for no reason. I have never exp that, But mine were mowed down.;) I had them for a year.
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thats interesting tid bit. but that just makes them more rare and desireable to get ;)

i got mine from a guy who had them under PC's in a 46bow forever. they had no color to them at all. he still has them and they have grown lots more under 10k lighting. also know someone with a frag of them in a low nutrient sps system for almost a year now. no problems there either. i think i just have a very hardy strain ;)

i'm still trying to figure out what kind of lighting will keep the purple at its brightest, and the red skirt its brightest, seems to be one or the other right now for me.
 
here are mine, same as surfnvb's
not a good picture, but it shows the growth.
rpespoorpic.jpg
 
yeah, yours came from me. those are an awesome red in your tank. mine still look a little faded to this day :(

maybe I'll just call mine OPE/RPE mutants from now on to ring in the big bucks :lol:
 
Surf, Thats just what i heard from the people that got them. Like i said i never had a problem with them.
Just like the ppe grow very slow bull that went around when they couldnt be found. I had 2 polyps turn to 30 in 6 mos roughly.
The reds now grow slow for me now, My fist frag took me a year to get 10 polyps from 4.
However as much i love my zoa's, My micromussa, lords and sps are my true addiction. I am surprised more zoa nuts arent micro nuts.

Hey there superfishy, Is that the mother colony of the ones ya sent me?
Also what lighting did ya have yours under?
 
I'd like micro's if I could find any honestly. I just got my FIRST small acan frag a couple of weeks ago. Just a small red/green one, nothing special.

By living up in the mountains (aka middle of no where near west virginia) we dont see any of the hot ticket item corals come around here, unless someone spends some big bucks to have it ordered or drives several hundred miles to the nearest saltwater store.
 
This is by no means a glory shot showing the redness, but here is what my RPE's look like under 250W DE AB 10K's (seems like 8K) and VHO's. The VHO's don't get much penetration... You can see the redder ones near the top. These have all speckled due to the lighting. The ones facing away from the lighting are much darker in the center. I meant to check them before coming back to the computer, but the MH are off, so I can't verify to myself that the color in the pic is the same as you see with your eye. They are probably not quite as dark, but are dark none the less.
RPE.jpg


These are the same under VHO's (white and 03).
RPE01.jpg

RPE02.jpg

Same camera-same lighting for bottom two pics, no touch up... Interesting how they differ (to the camera, anyway).
 
wow. yeah, its gonna be hard to tell what they truely are under 10k AB's. i honestly cant beleive you have alot of zoas with lights like that. you MUST have alot of sps in there. ;)
 
Well, used to have alot of sps (AEFW treatments took care of that). I am restocking SPS. I will be changing to a less yellow bulb when time comes to replace these. I was running (2) 175W on the ends of a 125 and the 250W DE AB 10k's in the center and liked it (except the drastic color changes from one to the other). When I upgraded to (3) 250's, it really turned yellow... SPS color up nicely, though (look like they get some sunburn going, though). The zoas stay on the bottom for the most part...
 
From what i read on the AEFW zoa's nudi's are a walk in the park.
Youre morph looks pretty cool! VHO's do tend to make colors pop!
 
Well i will have large 2 colonys of red ppe coming in, One i believe is the purple with red skirt ppe.
It looks like surfs dark morph., and the other is all bright red no ring. I'll post a pic when they are open.
 
I believe the ones that have the black/blue circle and green mouth in the center were the original RPE's when they first came out. I had a huge colony of them and made lots of frags. I unfortunately lost this colony. They seem to like SPS conditions.

funkyredpe.jpg


BTW, if anyone has these forsale please let me know. I sure do miss them :)
 
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