Difference between Eagle Eyes and Wham Watermelon

[ficklefins]

I saw a comment on another post and I was wondering if someone could explain the difference between these two for me:

Eagle Eyes:
CoralPedia.com! :: The definitive repository for named Corals!

Wham'n Watermelon:
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What would you categorize these:
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[wicked demon]

here are eagle eyes;

and whammin' watermelons;

 

[ficklefins]

Which are these?

 

[wicked demon]

they look like watermelons, I would say every pic you have posted are whammin' watermelons.
red-ish with green fingers...watermelons
orange-ish with yelow fingers...eagle eyes
You can get either to look similar to the other with different types of lighting.

 

[ficklefins]

they look like watermelons
red-ish with green fingers...watermelons
orange-ish with yelow fingers...eagle eyes
You can get either to look similar to the other with different types of lighting.

OK, the last sentence is what I was curious about. That photo above was taken from coralpedia from the Eagle Eyes Page:
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So the difference between Eagle Eyes and Watermelons is lighting?

 

[wicked demon]

no the diff isnt the lighting, but the lighting is the reason for the confusion. I believe coralpedia has a few mistakes in their archives, but are over all a good site.

 

[Nanofins]

So the difference between Eagle Eyes and Watermelons is lighting?

That's simplifying it too much, and not quite distilling it right, IMO.

Within almost any morph there is a certain amount of variability based on environmental factors. Some eagle eyes might get darker, some watermelons might get lighter, etc. But, in the same environment, they should be two distinct (but similar) morphs. Watermelons and eagle eyes are not interchangeable and you will not really get one from the other. I have both, and they are different in the same tank, but they are similar, as mentioned. They are two similar morphs, so the variablity makes the difference more indistinct.

 

[ficklefins]

But could you really go up to a tank that wasn't yours and validly argue one over the other?

 

[ficklefins]

The reason I ask is because I've had one of them, just not sure which it was. But if there was a "look for this particular sign" I feel like I would know. Is one a deeper, more rich, color than the other?

 

[stedfast82]

i got the eagle eye's not a very good pic but i can do better

 

[ficklefins]

i got the eagle eye's not a very good pic but i can do better

Steadfast,

Did you buy them as eagle eye's or was that your own ID?

 

[acanman]

i always thought the watermellons were red and the eagle eyes were orange?

 

[Nanofins]

Yes, I could walk up to pretty much any tank, I believe, and tell which was which, or which they had.

Now, there is probably also some confusion because of some individuals/vendors over the years that have sold the wrong morph under one name or the other, and that doesn't help at all, but doesn't change the reality of what's what. There are also innumerable colonies of both that have been imported with time, and probably a lot of others that are similar to one or the other, but maybe somewhere inbetween, which also wouldn't help. I see an aweful lot of watermelons out there being sold as eagle eyes by people who really probably just don't know better. I don't think they're being dishonest, just continuing to propagate a misidentification.

I got these back when eagle eyes were relatively new, and this is what i have always known as eagle eyes.

And here are some Whammin' Watermelons in the same tank. Got these back before they had even been named WW's.

 

[stedfast82]

i was just posting i did not buy them just got them i dont know what they are FF

 

[Dylan]

Watermelons have a red ring, eagle eyes have orange.

 

[stedfast82]

and nanofins i want that shroom on your advar

 

[acanman]

Watermelons have a red ring, eagle eyes have orange.

neither have a ring

 

[stedfast82]

so mine are EE

 

[Nanofins]

Both have a ring, so to speak, but they take up the greater part of the oral disk; not narrow like hornets. Hornets aren't the only morphs with rings, to paraphrase Charles. ;p

 

[acanman]

Both have a ring, so to speak, but they take up the greater part of the oral disk; not narrow like hornets. Hornets aren't the only morphs with rings, to paraphrase Charles. ;p

i didnt say anything about a hornet. i didnt know the red or orange on them was called a ring.