'Long lash' eagle eyes - are they?

[jedimasterben]

I've been on a quest for a while now to get some true 'long lash' eagle eye zoas, like this from user lazylivin:

I noticed a listing on your website for a frag of 'long lash' eagle eyes, and this is the picture:

Are the skirts longer than in the picture (maybe when the frag was being photographed the polyps closed a little)? Do you perhaps have any others (or could take another or so)? The two corals appear to be two separate strains of Z. sansibaricus.

Thanks!

Ben

 

[uniquecorals]

Great question...I believe that they are, and that the zoo just wasn't being very cooperative...But I can check and get back to you!

-Scott

 

[jedimasterben]

Anything? :biggrin1:

 

[Reef Pets]

Double post.

 

[Reef Pets]

Long lash eagle eyes have a very long skirt. I had them for years and lost them during a move. The skirt is about twice as long as regular eagle eyes. I named them many years back and would love to get my hands on some more. The top ones in the first picture is certainly long lash eagle eyes.

 

[TrialandError]

I have long lash eagle eyes and the skirt is much longer than that photo.

 

[luke33]

You could also do a search on super sunflower zoa's as they are identical to eagle eye's but have huge skirts.
Here is a pic of my little colony but you can see the long skirts, sorry iphone pic

 

[TrialandError]

This is the rock with 30+

Here is the other colony and what they look like fully open

 

[uniquecorals]

Sorry for the delay in response...Been a bit crazy lately...I think that the pic you reference shows them in not "100%" open position...They generally have a significantly longer "skirt" than you see in our photo. We'd probably need to get a better pic!