Red, black, and (maybe) white zoa?

[obct537]

So, admittedly, this is something of a ridiculous inquiry...anyway...

I've seen lots of colorations of zoa's/paly's before, but I've never seen one in red, black, and white....does such a thing exist? My reef tank has become a topic of (mild) interest at work, and I'd love to find a coral colony with the company colors

I guess it doesn't specifically have to be a zoanthid, but I can't imagine any other coral group with such odd colors.

 

[Pola0502ds]

I have never seen one before but I would like to imagine that it does exist somewhere out there. There are countless zoas/morphs out there. Sometimes I like to go on zoanthids.com and check out the hall of fame page of past zoas. I wish some of them still exist!

 

[obct537]

I have never seen one before but I would like to imagine that it does exist somewhere out there. There are countless zoas/morphs out there. Sometimes I like to go on zoanthids.com and check out the hall of fame page of past zoas. I wish some of them still exist!

I've always been a bit confused by that.....I've heard people say "this zoa no longer exists"....what happened to them? Are they just incredibly rare, and they haven't been found in the wild again? It seems like there should still be colonies out there in someone's tank, you'd think.

 

[Fragzilla]

There is one, but you'll be hard pushed to find it.

Fallen Sun Hornet

 

[Pola0502ds]

I've always been a bit confused by that.....I've heard people say "this zoa no longer exists"....what happened to them? Are they just incredibly rare, and they haven't been found in the wild again? It seems like there should still be colonies out there in someone's tank, you'd think.

Well a lot of zoas are morphs that happened in a vendors tank. When that happened they dont have massive qty's so i can see how that happens all the time. You know zoas melt if you look at them the wrong way.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Those fallen sun's look nasty, and look like melters as well I don't think corals really come in black or white too often considering they aren't really colors. They may look black or white but most of the time there is some color in there when it looks that way.

A lot of zoanthids are morphs that happened in a vendors tank?
Zoanthids morphing is kind of misinterpreted imo. They change color in different situations, but will change back to the original color if moved back to the original placement or tank. A true morph doesn't happen often in a tank, one that takes color from a mushroom or another polyp and stays that way in everyone else's tank that is. I would say it happens on reefs much more than in our tanks. So I wouldn't say that's why corals drop off the scene. A lot of polyps come in and are not seen again on any shipments. Not everything on a given reef is plentiful.