A R2R Spotlight: "Pink Elephant"

ficklefins · Jan 14, 2007

Pink Elephant

- This paly is a chameleon as it takes different tones in different tanks. If you are lucky enough to have the right conditions you will find a paly with a light almost cotton candy pink skirt, deep green oral disc, with a beautiful purple/blue around the mouth. The mouth it self will be a lighter green/yellow to a white/tan color.

*** I don't have these zoas so it will be up to the CZ community to give us the best lighting, flow, feed or not, or any other info for this color strain.***

Lighting:
- Pink elephants can being under stronger lighting situations, but colors may fade a bit. Pink elephants are best place near the bottom to start

Flow:
- Pink elephants can tolerant medium to high flow situations as long as it doesn't cause them to close.

Feeding:
- No real feeding reaction.

Origins:
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Growth Rate:
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Rarity:
- Still a rather rare zoanthid strain so if you are able to find one at your LFS then grab it!

ID Confusions:
- Possibly the same as Crazy Daisy.

Other info:
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jessiesgrrl · Jan 14, 2007

Mine are a bit faded under MH and moderate flow... I have been meaning to move them under shade to see if they brighten up... Any suggestions? They came from Twon8's colony this summer... Thanks Twon!

Laurie

organism · Jan 14, 2007

I love these palys

Lighting:
- High, with bluer spectrum 14k+ lighting, I use 400w XM 15k's

Flow:
- Medium to high, they like to be moved around

Feeding:
- Will take mysid, but do fine without feeding

twon8 · Jan 14, 2007

i've had them look good under 400w 20k and 250w 14k, so they can handle some light.

jessiesgrrl · Jan 14, 2007

Hmmm, I bet that is the issue- that side of my tank is 10k. I'll replace the light this week with 14k and see what happens...

Laurie

twon8 · Jan 14, 2007

under 20k w actinics they look almost yellow in the center; 14k makes them look green

ricordianut · Jan 14, 2007

wish i could get some of them

maroonytunes · Jan 14, 2007

ricordianut said:
wish i could get some of them

I do too, if anyone wants to sell, let me know.

MarvinsReef · Jan 14, 2007

Lighting
- I have mine on the bottom under 250w DE w/ 14k Phoenix bulb... one frag is about midway up.. my tank is about 18" deep so they can take some light but they tend to get faded a bit.. the pinkish skirt is much more pronounced on the bottom frag...

Flow
- I have moderate flow in my tank..

Feeding
- don't see any feeding reaction when I feed my tank...

Rarity
- somewhat rare because there was only one time that I saw them at LFS in my area.. there might've been only couple of nice colonies that was spread around the country during that time.. I hope they do get more in so we can all share this awesome morph...

ID Confusions
- there's two versions of this IMO.. another name I've seen these guys are Crazy Daisy, which I really believe they are the same.. I don't have the Crazy Daisies to compare them side by side but I know JGoslee does so hope he chimes in with pics of the two side by side..

sorry for the crappy pic..

the other version of Pink Elephant...

plaz · Jan 15, 2007

Mine are from Miguel at FraggleReef. I think it is my favorite Paly (although I really like alot of the Palys)! They are under 175 watt 20K in a 20 long right now and they look pretty much like the ones on his site - pink skirt, fairly bright (but light) yellow blending into a grey/blue center with white mouth.