Zoanthids morphing and hybidation

[daniella3d]

HI,

I found a nice big rock with some orange bam bam and some radioactive green. They have hybridize it seem and have created 2 different morphs, one green center with orange tentacles and one orange center with green tentacles pretty cool I thought. I have heard of this before but is was the fist time that I could see it happening. There were only 5 polpyps of radioactive green on the rock but it was enough to trigger the blend it seem. Here is a pic that show the 2 morphs:

I did not post the pic of the radioactive greren but they are usual, green center with green tentacles. I splitted the rock in a few colonies and this is one of them that had the 2 morphs.

 

[Madreef]

I can't recall the names off the top of my head, but I can tell you that those are not hybrids or morphs. They do occur normally and on their own. They seem to come in on the fiji zoas pretty often. They are nice looking zoas, nice score.

 

[daniella3d]

Then if they are not morph of the bam bam with the radioactive green, what are they doing in the same connected mat? I cut off the mat where the radioactive green was connected but they were all sharing the same mat. Pretty strange. Usualy when it is 2 different variety growing side by side they are not connected and each colony have its own mat. This is not the case. The green polyps were connected where the orange with green tentacles are.

So it went from green with green tentacles, then orange with green tentacles, then green with orange tentacles and then finaly to the orange bam bam. Is it possible for different type of zoanthids to share the same mat?

 

[dallas reefer]

I read somewhere that a morph will just revert back to one or the other. Surely THATS not true. Cause I've been trying that.