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Sherita
Wed, 17th Aug 2011, 08:37 PM
Ok, these guys were hitch hikers on some live rock I bought a while back. I was wondering if anyone might know the name of them?

Under my regular lighting (2 x 175 mh 15k, 2 x 110vho superactinics)

http://www.rosehillwindhounds.com/frags/FireZoas.jpg

Closeup of a single polyp

http://www.rosehillwindhounds.com/frags/FireZoasSingle.jpg

And under actinics only

http://www.rosehillwindhounds.com/frags/FireZoasActinics.jpg

These are very accurate color representations of these guys. They are large, about nickle size if you include the skirts, but don't act like palys (they don't feed like my palys do). They are also quite prolific.

Whatever they are, they really light up a tank!

Mr Cob
Wed, 17th Aug 2011, 08:43 PM
lunar eclipse morph?

aussie twilight palythoa?

red people eater paly?

Sherita
Wed, 17th Aug 2011, 08:56 PM
Lunar Eclipse is the closest of those three. But the colors are not the same as in the photos I have found, and the skirts on mine are not banded like the pictures of LE's. You are probably right, some kind of morph. Should I just call them "Lunar Eclipse morph?".

Mike
Wed, 17th Aug 2011, 09:58 PM
Sweet hitchhikers... How come the only hitchhikers we ever get are bubble algae or aptasia? :)

Scream311
Thu, 18th Aug 2011, 01:45 PM
Yea Mike same here.

But boy Sherita those are Beautiful