A couple for ID

bct15 · Jun 22, 2012

I have a few different Zoas that need ID. I bought some offline and some from various stores. Here are a couple that I can get shots of with my phone

This one is on a Zoa rock I bought a few months ago (last November) I bought the rock specifically for this polyp. It is peaking out from behind the darth mauls. It has a green mouth, bright pink center, yellowish outer ring, and bright green skirt. It is hard to capture the color on my phone. This one grows stupid slow, there was only one maul and one of these by eschother when I bought the rock for growth reference. I now have a baby

Next up is a rock I bought off of eBay because I thought it was interesting. When I seen them in person I was like Woah, I don't know what the heck these guys are. They are speckled and dusted green, with a bright pink skirt.

Both zoas in the above pictures are medium sized, not as big as say scarfaces but much bigger then time machines.

Lastly, the last one is I think a scarface morph of some sort but solid orange instead of speckled. It is very cool looking, check it out below

Those are scarfaces behind it for size reference, and the speckled green with pink skirt polyp to the left.

Thanks ahead of time

And before anybody has a conniption about my zoas, I'm not trying to make money or anything. Just want an ID, I have a few others for ID but can't get a decent pic right now. One is one of the sickest polyps I've ever seen. Neon green mouth, bright neon like purple center, tannish outer ring, and bright as heck pink skirt. The skirt is very rounded. Maybe someone can ID off description, my phone can't photo it for some reason, it just comes out white looking. Got it around the same time as the first pic, but it has three polyps now, and a nub...I'd call it a medium grower.

I also have one that came in with some mauls but it is green, is there a green maul?

bct15 · Jun 22, 2012

Here is a couple more that need ID's

This is a better pic of the green speckled with pink skirts

This is the one with the purple center, yellowish outer ring, green mouth and pink skirt I described in the previous post. It is the three polyps, there is some cherry charms on the plug with it for color and size comparison. It is so hard to pick this thing up right in the photos

Here is a blue speckled one with an orange center

And this purple speckled, bright green skirt and mouth. This one was very difficult to photo.

bct15 · Jun 22, 2012

Anybody know what any of these are? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated...I really want to know what the first three in the first post and the second one in the second post are or closely resemble.

I know the pics are not the best, they were taken with my iPhone 4 under 4 coral plus bulbs.

mainereefer · Jun 22, 2012

any pics under normal lighting? (not blue)

bct15 · Jun 23, 2012

mainereefer said:
any pics under normal lighting? (not blue)

These pictures were taken under 4 coral plus bulbs which are 15k, and I am holding the coral either with my hand or a forcep about a quarter - eighth inch below the water to eliminate the diffusing of red light through the water. You can see the reflection of the coral plus bulbs in the water surface, and my forcep is that metallic thing in all of the shots. I can take the pics in my display but that is 15k halides, so thru will probably look similar. Other than the first speckled green pic and the "green maul" I didn't think the pics were to blue. What lighting do you reccomemd? I figured most people run 15k and the polyps are fairly well represented, but i might have an extra bulb or two in the back. I don't have a six hundred dollar camera to take 100% accurate photos...and pretty much use my phone.

The last two polyps look exactly like the photos, the photos are just a little blurry. And the solid orange one is about spot on, the first photo the electric oompa loompas, purple polyp and mauls are pretty accurate, just the yellow and pink in the polyp in question isn't all there. The second polyp in the second post is hard to explain but is close to the photo (the photo just isn't ad intense as in person) but I figured the cherry charms can help...

mainereefer · Jun 23, 2012

sorry I cant help. pics are to blue for me to see actual colors

which ones are the cherry charms?

bct15 · Jun 23, 2012

Thanks mainereefer, I will try to get some shots under my halides but they are 15k as well but they may come out better. The cherry charms are in ficus in the second post (on the plug with the polyps I'm asking about) I'll use a different camera too. The cherry charms are on the plug (to the right and upper right) with the other three polyps in the second and third photo in the second post. The second photo two are open, one orangish young one and one greenish older one, in the third photo only one is open because I am irritating them with the forceps. They look just like cherry charms in the photo to me (but it must just be me, but that is what theyvpook like in real life unenhanced), you can just see how dim the pink skirt is compared to the other polyps pink skirt.

Like I had said I have a couple extra bulbs out back, what light do you reccomemd for photos so I can swap it out, 4x10k, 2 x10k + 2x15k, 2x10k + 2xblue plus...that is all I have. I'll try a different camera as well, might do a little better than my iPhone.