berns
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The problem with an ID is hard w/ True PE sometimes. They can change color drastically based on lighting. After it has been in the tank for a couple of months. I collect PE so here is an example. These are both the same polyps. Pic 1 is when I got it from the LFS. Pic 2 is what they look like now.
Don't even look similar.
If you don't find a good answer it may because it will change once it settles. Just a thought.
Now my general PE lesson. In the reef community PE are usually identified by the green mouth and white striations on the closed polyps. Not all PE have these chacteristics. PE are Zoanthus Gigantus which translates to Giant Zoas; The zoa answer to Palythoa Grandis. The only true way to tell Zoanthus Gigantus in under a microscope.
Post some updates in a month or two so we can compare them to the pic above.
Hope that helps.
your picture one shows very good colouring tho polyps look a bit flustered lol........... your piccy two after a while shows them bleaching out... thats not a colouring but a loss of colour due to lighting/or water biology, the lashes have also become watered out, ie no colour.......
one of the things ive noticed cultivating zoas is a bleaching out of colour to lashes if the tank is going through a tempory water cycle say if a bigggggggg watr change has taken place and alot of cynobacteria is evident (cyno=brown stringy or cobwebby stuff) but as cycle finishes the colours develop back in the lashes
