Kaleidoscope Zoas

Obsessed · Feb 27, 2010

So my buddy fragged some Eagle Eyes awhile back, put them on a plug with another zoa, which I think are Green Bay Packers. They were pretty tiny when I got them, but look what they have turned into. Pretty cool eh?:bigsmile:

amore169 · Feb 27, 2010

Very nice!!

nayrgaijin · Feb 27, 2010

That is sweet, I've seen similar morphs on wild rocks we get in the store I work at too.

ReeferRob · Feb 27, 2010

You just discovered the secret behind the Kaleidoscope Zoa. Seriously the original polyp was found in a mixed colony of Eagle Eyes and GPackers.

ficklefins · Feb 27, 2010

Did you notice at any point in time if that zoa had it's skit in it's mouth? Sometimes this will happen with zoas and the color of the skirt gets transferred* to the oral disc.

*By transferred I mean that I don't know what the term is for transferring Zooxanthellae

sharklover · Feb 27, 2010

The real deal Kaleidoscope.taken my 1st week of using a DSLR so its blurry and unprofessional. working on it

Obsessed · Feb 27, 2010

ficklefins said:
Did you notice at any point in time if that zoa had it's skit in it's mouth? Sometimes this will happen with zoas and the color of the skirt gets transferred* to the oral disc.

*By transferred I mean that I don't know what the term is for transferring Zooxanthellae

No, I didn't notice that! They were tiny for the longest time and just recently started to really open up and show their colors.

Does anyone know if the babies of the K's turn into K's or Eagle Eyes?

Ericm1205 · Feb 28, 2010

mine has 2 baby ks on it and they look like mommy. nice find! i just made 5 frags of 10 polyps of my eagle eye/radioactive dragon eye monster frag.
i thought the green ones looked more like radioactive dragon eyes. at least it looked like that to me. nice zoas btw.

650-IS350 · Feb 28, 2010

I've seen that on at least 1-2 polyps on each of my eagle eye colonies...

Obsessed · Feb 28, 2010

650-IS350 said:
I've seen that on at least 1-2 polyps on each of my eagle eye colonies...

Yup, that is all they are, an eagle eye morph. Cool enough tho that people gave them their own name:nerd:

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/f274/kaleidoscope-zoa-rainbow-chalice-33150.html

Pellaeon · Feb 28, 2010

same exact thing happened with mine

mrbigshot · Mar 8, 2010

being a morph do they hold there colors long term?

Akwarius · Mar 8, 2010

mrbigshot said:
being a morph do they hold there colors long term?

I've had mine going on 4 months in three different tanks and they have never morphed back to eagle eyes.

BayCorals · Mar 8, 2010

The secret is too keep them in mid/ low light. They retain there rainbow.

Acezwild · Mar 9, 2010

I cant get the rainbow and there low light unless they are still young polyps :squigglemouth:

Pellaeon · Mar 9, 2010

BayCorals said:
The secret is too keep them in mid/ low light. They retain there rainbow.

Mine are in extremely high light, 250watt MH, 2 x T5HOs, 1 x Reefbrite (25 gallon tank). To top that off, they are the top of the tank.

I would say about 75% of what was an eagle eye colony flipped to Kscopes. Even better I fragged a few and the babies are also Kscopes.

BayCorals · Mar 9, 2010

Pellaeon said:
Mine are in extremely high light, 250watt MH, 2 x T5HOs, 1 x Reefbrite (25 gallon tank). To top that off, they are the top of the tank.

I would say about 75% of what was an eagle eye colony flipped to Kscopes. Even better I fragged a few and the babies are also Kscopes.

Wow. I got to try that. I had a frag in high light but not the same results. I'll try it again. Mines didn't turn to eagle eyes, but the center had a glowing green eye. Still nice, but different from both the ka & ea.