Zoa ID, and can I "save" this zoa?

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I got this frag last week with two types of zoas on it, but I'm having some trouble figuring out what type they are. I played around a lot on my phone to get the photo under full blue lights looking like it does in person, and aside from the colors being slightly washed out (the red on the single red zoa is a bit more red in person, same with the yellow on the galaxy looking ones) it looks good.

I really like the single red zoa under blue light, and especially in contrast with the other zoas on the frag, but I'm worried the other ones will out compete it. There's a new polyp trying to grow, but the zoa directly to the left of the red one is covering it up. Is there something I should do like trim that one problem yellow polyp, or should the red one be fine?

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Those are pandora zoanthids and they can be very invasive. They grow like wild fire and should definitely be isolated. If you want the other zoa to live you should place it on a separate frag or I believe the pandora will out compete it.
My pandoras~
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Your other zoa is a red people eater (RPE). Since the pandoras are more expendable (and more likely to recover) I'd remove them with a razor and leave the peopl eater... or you can break the plug.
 

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