Fire&Ice or Greatful dead?

[JPRZ4U]

Can anyone tell me the best way to tell the difference between a Fire and Ice zoo and a Greatful Dead zoo? I have ran across several and one person says it is one thing and the other will tell me another. They look so much alike I can't tell which is which. I would like to get some of the Greatful dead ones but I don't want to pay the higher price if they are actually fire and ices. Anyhelp please.

[ckusnierek]

Basically is the color around the mouth.
GD:


Fire and Ice:

[JPRZ4U]

WOW, those are beautiful. You say the colar around the mouth,what colars should they be for the Greatful dead ones. In the pic it is kinda hard to tell.

[jackers]

Wow, those are awesome! I can't wait till my tank finished cycling and becomes stable enough to start adding some zoo's. Those Grateful Dead ones rock!

[ckusnierek]

The greatful dead kina look tiedyed around the mouth hence the name (I think)

[jackers]

Anyone know where I can purchase some of those?

[jenglish]

Originally Posted by jackers

Anyone know where I can purchase some of those?

https://reefer.powweb.com/catalog/pr...d9478c65e3b1d4

Anything with a brand name is priecey.... of course you can let them reproduce and try to make your money back. I have never bought from those people just the first one that came up on a search

[ckusnierek]

Oh there are some high end coral places ou there.
Vividaquarium.com
Cherrycoral.com
Worldwidecorals.com
Atlantisaquarium.net

I'm sure there are many out there. Beware there are many imposters on Ebay

[jenglish]

Chris, did your high end zoas ever recover? The deepwater japanese ones you ordered

[jackers]

Wow, thanks guys!

[ckusnierek]

Originally Posted by jenglish

Chris, did your high end zoas ever recover? The deepwater japanese ones you ordered

Some did some did not.
Of the 5 jap frags I was able to save 3

I lost about 100+ Tubbs Blue
50+ African Blue Hornets!!!!
Spidermans
ultra Bam Bam
Fire and Ice

and a TON of "common" zoas. In all $500++ worth GONE!
It was my orange spot rabbitfish I'm 99% sure...

I have them all in my frag tank and there all fine

[JPRZ4U]

I lost alot of my zoo's this week, nothing to expensive, fire and ice, gorilla nipples and about 5 or 6 unidentified ones. Don't know what happened, ammonia just shot up I have changed 15gal. every other night for a week now and can't get it down just right. I have a good buy on what may be Greatful Dead but not now, at least until I find out what the problem is. It has me stumped, I have done nothing different for 3 years now only added a few common zoo's this week, after that it went down hill. I have a 25 head hammer coral that is about gone to.