What is a deepwater Zoa

[Reef Dreamz]

What exactly does it mean to be a deep water zoa? Why is this a good or bad thing? Are these zoas worth more/ less?? Do their colors differ??

 

[Azurel]

It is a marketing scheme, there are no real deep water zoas......They will not get deeper then enough light to grow since they have zooxanthellae algea.

 

[gparr]

You might read the zoanthid article in the most recent issue of Coral magazine. It supports Azurel's statement that it's a marketing scheme.
Gary

 

[650-IS350]

for me when I ID a polyp for someone as a deep water, it means it a variant of polyps that's marketed as deep water zoanthids, merely for classification.

 

[Reef Dreamz]

Interesting... Now are Japanese zoas something different? Dang lots of marketing schemes

 

[Wy Renegade]

Interesting... Now are Japanese zoas something different? Dang lots of marketing schemes

Japanese zoas/Japanese Deepwater zoas = same thing, just a marketing scheme. They have some very nice colors, but they are neither deepwater, nor are they Japanese in origion.

 

[650-IS350]

I use that term for ID'ing that specific variety of Z's... that's it.

 

[Reef Goddess]

I figured it was a marketing scheme. I prefer to give corals crazy, colorful names instead or put names in color. hehe Good pictures usually sell the coral without any fancy name, although if you call something "Ugly zoos" then this might hurt your ability to sell it. ;p

 

[Reefer831]

Anything to make a buck.

 

[Reefer831]

I figured it was a marketing scheme. I prefer to give corals crazy, colorful names instead or put names in color. hehe Good pictures usually sell the coral without any fancy name, although if you call something "Ugly zoos" then this might hurt your ability to sell it. ;p

+1 I just hate the way everybody uses photo shop.

 

[Reef Dreamz]

i think I am gonna name all my zoas after movie stars, or something crazy like that.... better than Jupiter orange dizzmodazzlicious redds lol

 

[Reefer831]

i think I am gonna name all my zoas after movie stars, or something crazy like that.... better than Jupiter orange dizzmodazzlicious redds lol

:smile: how about the Soleil Moon Frye chalice

 

[Reefer831]

:smile: how about the Soleil Moon Frye chalice

aka Punky Brewster

 

[Reef Dreamz]

Dont you be stealing my Punky Pink Brewster... LOL

 

[Reef Goddess]

Jupiter orange dizzmodazzlicious redds But I like this name!!!!

 

[TANKSALOT]

I bought some at a local club frag auction and the person that brought the frag called them the Pinky Dinky Sippy Zoas

It was the hit of the auction which still to this day draws a laugh. :wink:

 

[Triggerman77]

Yea i got GOT on some JDW's lol I still have the same 6 tiny polyps i started with 6 months ago.

 

[BlazinNano]

Now I have a question are the African Blue Hornets/ African Blue Steals listed as Deep Waters? If they are then I am torturing mine. They are almost at the top of my reef......

 

[Triggerman77]

I just moved mine from bottom corner to the top Directly under one of my 400w Halides Let um cook

 

[BlazinNano]

I have had people tell me the African Blue Hornet/African Blue Steel was a deepwater. then I found out they actually came from very very very shallow waters off Africa. I let them sit on the sandbed for 5 months and they never grew. Moved they to high light, high flow. In a month 7 babies. I don't beleive all the Deep Water crap. Is deep water where you can't touch the ground anymore?