anyone ever see these before?

shred5 · Jun 9, 2007

These have a real blue center which looks white in the pic and depending on the lighting, the rest of it is a red to like brick red or rust color depending on the lighting. The amazing thing about them is the size of them, they are tiny. They are about a third to a quarter of the size of a normal zoa. It was so hard ot get a pic of something this small.. I should have put a normal sized zoa colony next to them so you could see the difference in size. These things are really different and cool.

Dave

Kigs! · Jun 9, 2007

happy samhains?

fishes2889 · Jun 9, 2007

I saw them at the atlantis website....

shred5 · Jun 9, 2007

Here is a size comparison. I mean these are tiny but they actually look a lot bigger in this pic due to being closer to the camera than the palys and being a macro pic. But as you can tell 4 can easily fit inside a palys crown.

Dave

MarvinsReef · Jun 9, 2007

I believe that they are the same type of zoas as the Happy Samhains.. almost same coloration but the blue center... I think the Happy Samhains are a little more on the red/orange side and those are on the redder side... awesome pick up...

shred5 · Jun 9, 2007

MarvinsReef thanks..

They can actually look more orange if I turn down the blue, thats what I meant by rust colored, in the pics they look red but to my eye in my tank they are a brick red. When they were in the tank from the place I bought them they actually looked more red than the pics, that is what caught my eye. The blue dot looks big in the pics but it really is about the size of a pin head. These things really are small and would easily be overlooked. Actually looked at the happy samhains and are very close, mine still might be smaller but hard to tell from a pic and mine have a blue mouth. I also see that you are right, those are a red/orange where these are a darker red..I am going to see if I can find somemore pics. i love both of them...

fishes2889 i went to their site and they had something called strawberry minis which I am assumeing means they are small polyps like mine but they look nothing like it. They also had something that looked like it that was called atlantas fire and ice which has a really bad pick but look alot like it but I assume they are not small like these or they would have been labeled small, unless it is something that is not on thier site anymore..

Thanks
Dave