Bowsers Story Time?

[BBoley24]

Ok so apparently I didn't know enough about the OG JP Bowser... CAO is a much better looking polyp.

 

[buddythelion]

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JP Bowsers, only $250PP lol.

Ok so apparently I didn't know enough about the OG JP Bowser... CAO is a much better looking polyp.

IMO those don't look anything like the OG Jay Painters. This is one of the sources that I was wondering how they were able to secure a fraggable size colony of them when the JP strain was basically MIA for so many years. Was hoping they'd chime in with the story behind it and having it lineage all the way back to Jay Painter.

 

[BBoley24]

Ok buddy, you're making me feel better inside

 

[Zoanthids Verified Sponsor]

IMO those don't look anything like the OG Jay Painters. This is one of the sources that I was wondering how they were able to secure a fraggable size colony of them when the JP strain was basically MIA for so many years. Was hoping they'd chime in with the story behind it and having it lineage all the way back to Jay Painter.

I understand how the pic on the website is a little confusing. As all of you know, polyps morph under different lighting conditions. They have morphed some since the pic on the website and we'll be updating that soon. Here is a pic of how they looked just a few days ago. Sorry, it's not that great of quality and it's shot through acrylic under 400w Hallides.

You can see that they're starting to gain some of their yellow/orange back but we're going to change up their lighting some more to see if we can get them to morph back to how they looked under LEDs. Here's some info on the lineage. We acquired the full piece from BillyC when he got out of the hobby which he grew out from one polyp that he got directly from Jay Painter.

Hope that clears up any confusion.

 

[RKLion]

Then I purchased a few polyps from Zoanthids.com and have grown them out. Will post pics...

 

[duke4130]

I don't understand, the photo that Darwin originally posted of the JP bowsers look nothing like the Zoanthids.com JP bowsers

 

[extremecoral]

+1 on that interesting to see if anyone got JP bowser from zoanthids.com
The one zoanthids.com just posted looks like it turned into a different morph! lol

 

[duke4130]

Anyone care to chime in on the question???

 

[ryecoon]

Now where can I buy one? lol The OG bowser not the knock off.

 

[Supreme Reefs]

You can't find the OG bowser anymore. It melted on everyone that had them, me included. There's only the knock offs now

 

[RKLion]

Do you guys think the zoanthids.com ones are the jp bowsers?...

 

[RKLion]

He says he has lineage...

 

[gatorsmashed]

It's very interesting to be able to gain an understanding of how things happen like this. Makes you wonder how "bowsers" can be that much more expensive than CARs, when in reality they are not that far off.

 

[reef420]

I love my bowsers

 

[BBoley24]

Those are straight up legit!