Introduceing " Daisy Dukes"
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sexycorals
Bringing Sexy BACK!!
love the name!! and love it when them daisy dukes some out in the summer here in sweet ohh cali.. =)
Supreme Reefs
Zoa Crazy!
The skirts do get like that and even in high flow for some reason im not exactly sure why though :/ but they look cool!
Yes they are decent size palys.
The pink on them gets pretty bright too!
One of my fav pink palys
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Emoney
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for some reason the skirts tend to curl up in my tank..But i have alot of flow in my tank so dont know if thats a issue with the skirts curling up or not..i have a few other palys that do it as well
Nice, I wouldn't mind having those in my tank
So which is it, a paly or a zoa? Size is irrelivant when determining scientific classification.
The true difference between palys and zoas is much harder to distinguish. It is in the coenenchyme (or mat tissue); palythoa (protopalys included) take up sand and other small particles to build their structure (particularly noticable in the "stem" of the polyp or course texture of the oral disc). Zoanthids do not.
Polyp, colony form, and oral disc shape and color are all highly variable between members of these two genera.
If you have a question as to which you have, take a picture of the of the polyp. If it shows the sand grains like this out of focus shot of a Palythoa grandis, it is a paly not a zoa.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...s16Nov2010.jpg
HTH
The true difference between palys and zoas is much harder to distinguish. It is in the coenenchyme (or mat tissue); palythoa (protopalys included) take up sand and other small particles to build their structure (particularly noticable in the "stem" of the polyp or course texture of the oral disc). Zoanthids do not.
Polyp, colony form, and oral disc shape and color are all highly variable between members of these two genera.
If you have a question as to which you have, take a picture of the of the polyp. If it shows the sand grains like this out of focus shot of a Palythoa grandis, it is a paly not a zoa.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...s16Nov2010.jpg
HTH
sexycorals
Bringing Sexy BACK!!
if you were sexy mike.. then sexycorals would be "moneycorals"! hey thats sound aight homie!!
PR_Reefers
Reefer 4 Life!
photo is not available! would you mind updating this... if you still have the pic? thanks
