Zoa morph

[Damian reef boi]

Are zoa morphs temporary? It looks cool so I hope not

 

[Damian reef boi]

Bump

 

[Reefing_addiction]

@footgal

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Bump

Did you get them like this? Did they morph in tank?

 

[Damian reef boi]

They morphed in the tank

 

[PicassoClown04]

How long have they been morphed? If they have stabilized (stopped morphing further) then yes, they will remain that way. There are no guarantees for anybody else to produce the same results if you were to frag and sell them (beautiful zoas btw) but as long as they remain under the same lighting and perams in your tank they will keep their current coloration

 

[Damian reef boi]

Do you know the name of these by anychance?

 

[PicassoClown04]

Do you know the name of these by anychance?
Can you tell me which ones are morphed and which are the original? The ones on the left look like red hornets and the single different one on the right looks like the much sought after Punch Bowl by Iconic Aquariums

 

[Damian reef boi]

The black one is the morphed one

 

[PicassoClown04]

The black one is the morphed one

It’s lovely! Can I guess that you lowered the light to make them morph like that? I’ve seen through the experiments of myself and a friend that usually, if a zoa is moved to less par, it becomes darker and/or dulled in coloration whereas moving a zoa to higher par generally goes the opposite

 

[Damian reef boi]

It’s lovely! Can I guess that you lowered the light to make them morph like that? I’ve seen through the experiments of myself and a friend that usually, if a zoa is moved to less par, it becomes darker and/or dulled in coloration whereas moving a zoa to higher par generally goes the opposite

I actually moved it up into a frag rack so it's in higher par. Very interesting

 

[PicassoClown04]

I actually moved it up into a frag rack so it's in higher par. Very interesting

Very cool!! How long has it been morphed like that?

 

[Damian reef boi]

I just noticed today lol but probably like a month.

 

[PicassoClown04]

I just noticed today lol but probably like a month.

Then its likely here to stay! I wonder if the normally colored ones will continue to produce normal colored babies or if the babies will become morphed. That said, will the babies of the morphed one also be morphed? Usually when I see a zoa morphing, the whole colony begins to morph not just one polyp; so I'm wondering if maybe this means that the one morphed polyp is genetically different than the rest or if it just decided to morph and the rest of the colony hasnt quite caught up yet

 

[littlebigreef]

It’s a pretty interesting zoa you have there, it appears to be an Uc Black Rainbow (I don’t know of any other branded name for it). Same family as the cb el corazon/ after burner zoas, heart breakers, rainbow vdms and mind tricks. To a certain degree all these names get mixed together in a pot but they’re all a bit different.

I’ve had the strain a bit over three years and I’ve seen it morph considerably depending on par and light type but I’ve never had the face black out like that...makes it almost look like a lunar eclipse. Under high par I had the dark middle part expand almost from mouth to skirt (attached pic is pretty crappy). I’ve found lower par brings out the rainbowing in the skirt. At this point it’s hard to tell if that morph will stay that way.

One of my colonies colored up.


Pic from Reefcrazy- his came from ultimate corals as well.

High par LEDs only

Current examples under 130par t5/led combo.

 

[Damian reef boi]

They do look similar

 

[RedFrog211]

beautiful morph!

 

[Damian reef boi]

Thanks!

 

[Damian reef boi]

These look very similar. What do you guys think?

 

[Damian reef boi]