Zoa or Paly ID and name

xTJxSLIMx · Dec 17, 2018

I looked through the sticky ID and looked through quite a few ID threads, looked at James M post with many good links to ID sites. But still don't see anything on these zoas. They are brown I guess with yellow speckles and some green with speckles through it. Pink and gold look close but no pink under my lighting. Darth sidious zoa? Pic on ID website was not the greatest focus or angle... So I honestly don't know if they are so simple they just don't have a name or something along those lines. I want to share some with two local reefers because they have almost engulfed the 9"x 4" rock they are on but have no clue what to tell them other than some zoa's or paly's...
ID on others you see would be appreciated as well.

Coralreefer1 · Dec 17, 2018

Pink and gold spec ones are called Pandora’s

Capitol Reef Corals · Dec 17, 2018

Coralreefer1 said:
Pink and gold spec ones are called Pandora’s

+1 I'd go with Pandora on this one as well

xTJxSLIMx · Dec 17, 2018

Coralreefer1 said:
Pink and gold spec ones are called Pandora’s

So the Pandora is a palythoa?

Capitol Reef Corals · Dec 17, 2018

xTJxSLIMx said:
So the Pandora is a palythoa?

Correct!

Coralreefer1 · Dec 17, 2018

Word of advice regarding your Zoanthids/Palythoas, move your Hammer away from them because the Hammer has strong and long sweeper tentacles that will sting and injure or kill your colony it comes in contact with. Remove your Colt/Kenyan Tree coral from the colony or eventually it will overgrow, spread and compete with your Zoanthid/Palythoa colony.

xTJxSLIMx · Dec 17, 2018

Coralreefer1 said:
Word of advice regarding your Zoanthids/Palythoas, move your Hammer away from them because the Hammer has strong and long sweeper tentacles that will sting and injure or kill your colony it comes in contact with. Remove your Colt/Kenyan Tree coral from the colony or eventually it will overgrow, spread and compete with your Zoanthid/Palythoa colony.

Yes, you are correct. I've had kenya tree before and honestly hate it for dropping branches at random to sprout up in random places, also how fast it grows. But can't bring myself to kill it. Another local reefer has fuzzy mushrooms pushing out his hammer colony and growing up the stalk of his toadstool. He uses apstasia-x to bring them down a couple times a month...