Id needed please

_yakk0 · Apr 8, 2022

Can anyone provide an id for these?

ShepherdReefer · Apr 10, 2022

Hey there yakk0, hopefully, someone can help soon.

Wolf89 · Apr 10, 2022

Those are interesting, they almost like like blastos

fishguy242 · Apr 10, 2022

@footgal ?? good one here...

_yakk0 · Apr 10, 2022

Wolf89 said:
Those are interesting, they almost like like blastos

Yes they do when opened, but they close up to a soft fleshy polyp like a zoa. They look like a zoa with fat little sausage skirts.

PicassoClown04 · Apr 10, 2022

That is weird as all heck, never seen zoas with skirts so fat. Is the flow off? The pictures are kinda blurry. I think it’s probably something like salted agave because of the red and white together

Reefing102 · Apr 10, 2022

Bounce zoas! $3k per polyp lol

Sorry not helpful but interesting none the less

_yakk0 · Apr 10, 2022

footgal said:
That is weird as all heck, never seen zoas with skirts so fat. Is the flow off? The pictures are kinda blurry. I think it’s probably something like salted agave because of the red and white together

I have 4 different colonies of this, under 3 different types of lighting and in various types of flow and they all look the same. This particular on is under a 20k radium in a medium flow area of a frag tank...about 125par or so.

vetteguy53081 · Apr 10, 2022

Looks like Blastos

_yakk0 · Apr 10, 2022

Reefing102 said:
Bounce zoas! $3k per polyp lol

Sorry not helpful but interesting none the less

Woot...got 30 or so polyps...lol

_yakk0 · Apr 10, 2022

vetteguy53081 said:
Looks like Blastos

I admit they sure do when they are open but they are soft fleshy polyps when closed.

MaxTremors · Apr 10, 2022

vetteguy53081 said:
Looks like Blastos

Yeah, I thought they look like a cross between a blasto, alveopora, clove polyp, and zoa. I think it’s likely some sort of zoanthid, but definitely something weird happening with it.