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10-26-2008, 08:38 PM
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Son of Jor El
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Springfield MO
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color changing zoa?
I bought a frag of zoanthids yesterday that looked like it was 2 colonies, 1 pink and 1 green. Now they are all green, do they jsut change colors that fast?
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12-14-2008, 03:13 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2008
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It all depends on the lighting.
I find if you can run a 20,000k bulb you will get the best color out of mostly all corals.
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12-14-2008, 03:17 PM
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Son of Jor El
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Actually this problem turned out to be all the pink ones were facing the back of the tank 
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Jeremy http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f7...ef-119089.html
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
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12-14-2008, 03:41 PM
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Keeper of the Kracken
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Martin, SC
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 That would be a good cause as well. |
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12-15-2008, 12:26 AM
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Non-Hypocritical
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Hillbillyville Alabama
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All my turned colors. From pretty colors (all kinds) to brown when I killed them, does that count?
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12-15-2008, 08:59 PM
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Keeper of the Kracken
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Martin, SC
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Um, let me think about this for a moment, ..., ..., ..., NO!  |
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12-15-2008, 09:34 PM
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Non-Hypocritical
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Maybe I just had them turned around backwards  |
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12-15-2008, 09:40 PM
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Son of Jor El
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OneDummHikk
Maybe I just had them turned around backwards |
Hey now! 
I've ran a few through a powerhead... funny thing is it survived
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Jeremy http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f7...ef-119089.html
Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
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12-15-2008, 10:14 PM
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Keeper of the Kracken
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Too late, once the word is out it is very hard to bring it back. Sorry Randy.
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12-15-2008, 10:55 PM
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Non-Hypocritical
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Hillbillyville Alabama
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No need to apologize to me Michael, I didn't look at them backwards, they really were dead when I got home from SC  |
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05-18-2009, 04:15 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I have one rock half are one kind and another are a different kind of zoas, half the rock are orange center with an turqoise ring and orange "skirt" and the other half are light brown.
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05-18-2009, 08:55 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Yeah, nothing worse than buying the greatest looking coral only to get home and it looks blah under your lights. I just did that with some bright yellow zoa's. |
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05-18-2009, 09:59 PM
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Keeper of the Kracken
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Martin, SC
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It is quite common to find more than one color of zoanthid on the same rock, the problem I usually run into is that the uglier color overtakes the prettier one. 
Lighting plays a huge role in the coloration of the corals as well. I like to keep a couple of zoa frags from the same colony in different lighting conditions just to see what happens at times. |
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06-11-2009, 07:35 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: May 2009
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I'll second aquawolf. The best thing u can do when u get 2 colors on a single colony is try and seperate them. truth is nature pretty zoas need better conditions than ugly ones, so if they had to compete for the same space...uglies win! alas that aint true with humans, but well...go ugly zoas!! kick them pretty faces off thou rock!
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