Red Hornets?

[the curious]

Hello all, I am new to this forum, but have had my arm in a tank for over 10 years, 4 of which have been salty.

I have this colony, that I received a year or so ago, that was traded to me as "red ring zoas". I cannot seem to find 'red ring zoas", at least not that look like mine. A fellow local reefer saw them the other day and told me they very well maybe red hornets, because they look exactly like his red hornets. I know names get thrown around alot, and that I would be one lucky SOB if these are, in fact,red hornets.

So, any one think these are red hornets? If not, does anyone have any leads to what they might be? All help is much appreciated.

 

[Fishman793]

true red hornets have an alternating black and red skirt, which is the easiest identifier on these. Kind of hard to see if they do from the pic, but they might be red hornets.

 

[reefpeeper]

I think they are red rings also. Do they have a white slit where the mouth is? Do they have alternating skirts?

 

[the curious]

OK...not hornets then. They do not have the alternating skirts like my blue hornets do. Thanks guys...seems like they are red rings after all.

 

[andijo81]

They look legit to me, but what do I know

 

[Dylan J.]

Well light does some funny things to zoas i must say, I relieved some nasty green button palys in a trade and were mostly brown and stayed that way for the longest time until i moved them up closer to the light in my tank now they are mostly green with little trace of brown on them now. so what im getting at is they could be red hornets that just are reaching their full potential colors just yet. they could be getting to much light which then makes lashs on their skirk turn all red and a lighter color, maybe lower them off the frag rack and inch or two from the light and you just might see a huge difference. then they could possibly turn out to be red hornets, to me personally look like red hornets because their skirts are piled up one over and one under but due to the light there is a slight straightness to their skirt but not like the red ring zoas which also have few skirt lashes then the hornets have

 

[SoFlowRubiosCorals]

Looks really closed

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[the curious]

I usually keep these guys on the substrate, I just pulled them up to the rack for this picture. They do have alternating skirt (one just higher than the next), but the color of each skirt is the same (blue base that gradually gets red), which is what leads me go believe they may not be "true" hornets.

Thanks guys. I'll try to get a better close up pic on here soon.

 

[the curious]

Oh, and they do have faint white slits over the mouth. I traded a guy who kept them under PC lights. I have had them under 300w of 50/50 LED for about a year now.