Purple Hornets or no?

[Wy Renegade]

This is true, and a good thing, IMO. It is this initial payoff that will continue to motivate collectors and importers to search for new and ever nicer corals to introduce to the hobby. Everyone benefits. The people introducing these corals to the hobby MUST have a payoff for their efforts, or they won't be willing/able to continue. In the end the coras drop in price and become obtainable for most everybody. It is the state of our hobby and the industry that we can now almost count on any new introduction to survive, grow, get propagated, and be distributed to ever-widening circles until they are bread-and-butter. Nothing to complain about, IMO.

I agree, nor was I complaining (if I came across that way), this is simply an effect of a free-market economy, and is true in almost every aspect of our lives. Hybrid cars would be another example, as indeed was the gasoline engine many years ago.

However, in this case, calling them purple hornets is at least bordering on misrepresentation, and only encouraging confusion.

Indeed, you and I as collectors would agree, given that we recognize that purple hornets should have alternating colored tentacles in their skirts. however, since there is no legal criteria established in order for any zoanthid sp. to be named a Purple Hornet, individuals are free to name any zoanthid sp. they have Purple Hornets, or Whammin Watermelon, or Bam-bams. If in doubt, look at all the different names many of these zoas are sold under by the various sponsors and vendors of this site.