Zoa I.D. Please also any help!!

bcoykendall · Apr 16, 2015

Any help to ID these guys for me
Also the zoa that isn't open is a rasta and I am not sure why it was good for a couple of days ago and now looks like that. I know it's not alot of info but if anyone has had this experience before. It has happened before these are actually the first zoas I have kept alive for a while. I dont know weird stuff....... Thank you guys.

First post here good to be apart of reef2reef

JMMJ13902 · Apr 16, 2015

First pic looks like a colony of utter chaos.

Second pic looks like red hornets on the left and blue hornets on the right.

And welcome to R2R.

PaulKreider · Apr 16, 2015

bcoykendall · Apr 16, 2015

Any idea what could have happened to my Rasta right next to the utter chaos? The other ones look good but the rasta seems to be pulled in for the past couple of days

PaulKreider · Apr 17, 2015

Glue on the actual polyp can cause problems, looks like that's the case to me.

bcoykendall · Apr 17, 2015

So you would say just scrap the glue off then. To be honest I am still kinda new to all of this, so im sorry if that was a dumb question.... haha

PaulKreider · Apr 17, 2015

No no, scraping them now could hurt them more. Whomever fragged them shouldn't of put glue on the polyps flesh if that makes sense. Almost always causes problems.

Zoa farmer · Apr 17, 2015

Definately utters, red hornet , and blue hornets . +1 on not glueing polyps . If and when your ready to frag zoanthids or palythoas the best way to frag them is cut a piece of the original plug off and glue that piece to another plug. Or simply cut the Rock below them . There's a lot of great people on this forum who would be more than happy to assist you and answer your questions