Zoa IDs Please!

[sbash]

Hi Everybody!

I just got a few rocks in and I have never seen these zoas before, does anyone out there have an idea what I have here?

This one is more peachy looking under blues than I was able to photograph, it is also yellowish with the whites on:

This one is very pink, especially under the blues, I didn't notice the contrasting fade into the mouth until I took the photo. Each polyp is pretty small (for what that is worth):

And, I'm not sure this one is as green as the photo implies:

A big thank you to the zoa experts out there!

 

[Kelsey Fletcher]

The second picture looks like purple fission zoanthids. The third picture looks like orange and green skirt zoanthids, and I only have a guess for the first picture but I know that it isn't correct. Could it possibly be like an orange version of tubs blue? (I'm no expert but I have done a lot of research on them)

 

[sbash]

The second picture looks like purple fission zoanthids. The third picture looks like orange and green skirt zoanthids, and I only have a guess for the first picture but I know that it isn't correct. Could it possibly be like an orange version of tubs blue? (I'm no expert but I have done a lot of research on them)

Thanks for the response! I think 2 being the purple fission is correct, or correct enough for me . However, I'm not sure about the other two (based on cross referencing the names with google images)... Here are a couple more photos of 1 and 3 respectively:

The polyps are barely over 1/4" so they are a very challenging shot for me. Also, I bought these on rocks from an importer, so they could have come from the wild or be maricultured; they could have also bought them locally, who knows...

 

[DoobDob]

Armor of god for the first one?

 

[40B Knasty]

Not an expert either, but I would +1 the Armor of God guess and also the Purple Fission. The 3rd one is I have no clue, but that's a really nice zoanthid piece.
From experience with AoG. They started off with a white skirt and peach. Then changed to gray skirt with a hyper pink/salmon color like what yours are showing now.
I have a Tubbs Blue. Definitely not one of those.

 

[mike werner]

Armor of god for the first one?

yep totally agree.aog for sure

 

[sbash]

Okay, here's a slightly better photo of #1. I cannot really find anything under Amour of God in google images that looks like it:

I'm happy to call it Armour of God, but if I do and my local community disagrees, then I will never hear the end of it (to put it politely)...

 

[DoobDob]

Okay, here's a slightly better photo of #1. I cannot really find anything under Amour of God in google images that looks like it:

I'm happy to call it Armour of God, but if I do and my local community disagrees, then I will never hear the end of it (to put it politely)...

Much better photo, I agree, not sure if its armor of god. AOG's color is very vivid red/orange. Maybe its in bad shape and need to recover??, but yea, not sure anymore.

 

[40B Knasty]

They are hard to ID for me, but I can show you how much they can change. The zoas under the spotted a mandarin is the same zoas that are orange and white in photo 2.

 

[sbash]

Much better photo, I agree, not sure if its armor of god. AOG's color is very vivid red/orange. Maybe its in bad shape and need to recover??, but yea, not sure anymore.

Haha, yeah, my coral photography skills are getting better by the day...

They are hard to ID for me, but I can show you how much they can change. The zoas under the spotted a mandarin is the same zoas that are orange and white in photo 2.

I wish my mandarin was that photogenic!

Well, colour aside, I was thinking the markings alone ( that split ring on all the heads) made them not look like AOG, based on the google image results. But yeah, they are not red or orange. Peachy/pink coloured at best.

I've had them a month, and yeah, they could have been in rough shape when I got them. From what I can tell by that supplier, is they come from a maricultre farm in Indonesia (somewhere)...

Now, an interesting note, I dropped a chunk of the rock in my 8 gallon zoa garden tank and there is some green starting to come out on the body. I'll see if I can shoot a picture tomorrow. Even more curious is the polyp size; the rock when I got it was full of 1/4 inch polyps, now in this other tank the polyps are getting larger. So, I'm not sure what the significance of the size is...

 

[sbash]

Finally, I was able to get a good shot, you can see the hints of greens in the middle circle, around the mouth:

 

[DoobDob]

Hmm

 

[DoobDob]

Finally, I was able to get a good shot, you can see the hints of greens in the middle circle, around the mouth:

Maybe some kind of bubblegum pink zoas, just throwing guesses now, they're pretty though

 

[DSC reef]

Everburner palys? This is a hard ID.

 

[sbash]

It does have similar crop circle markings like the bubblegums... It doesn't quite have the markings of the everburner...

 

[ChiCity]

I wanna say a morph of citrus coolers, since you started this thread saying they’re a peach color, and now you post a pic showing green in the oral disks...

 

[sfin52]

Finally, I was able to get a good shot, you can see the hints of greens in the middle circle, around the mouth:

Everburners

 

[sbash]

Everburners

Zoanthid.com has some Everburners (paly and zoa), which don't look like this. The paly is close, but doesn't have the hard ring. Thanks!