Does anyone know the name?

[Sherita]

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)



Closeup of a single polyp



And under actinics only



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]

lunar eclipse morph?

aussie twilight palythoa?

red people eater paly?

[Sherita]

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]

Sweet hitchhikers... How come the only hitchhikers we ever get are bubble algae or aptasia?

[Scream311]

Yea Mike same here.

But boy Sherita those are Beautiful