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Originally Posted by ChilisREasy
they better not be palythoas  |
Why not out of curiousity??
If you are referring to your other thread about the toxicity of them...........All zoas and palys can carry toxins that can make you sick. I have been sick a few times myself. Nothing serious, but nausea and bad headaches for aday or two. It wasnt until the second time it happened did I put two and two together, nad it wasnt until the third time when I got the sickest did I start wearing gloves to frag.
The two kinds of palys that have been found to truly carry the famed deadly palytoxin are palythoa toxica and palythoa tuberculosa, neither of which are collected or commonly seen in the hobby.
The difference between zoas and palys simply put is that palythoa and protopalythoa are in the family sphenopidae and take up sand and other small particles to help make up their structure.
Zoanthus, isaurus, and acrozoanthus are in the family zoanthidae and do not take up sand and other particles to build their structure.
Palys are typically much larger. For reference.....dead center of this pic are those larger
blue polyps....those are palys. For size reference they are about the size of a dime. The picture may not show it well, but every other polyp you see is more similar in size to that of a little larger than a pencil eraser.
