Pure white zo's

jcgso · #1 09/27/2005, 07:58 PM

Went to my LFS for some frozen food tonight and just had to check out the coral tanks. I came across some snow white zo's, very cool looking. They are asking $65.00 for a rock with about 10-12 polyps. That seemed kind of high $ to me, but then again I have never seen all white zo's anywhere. Are they "rare"?

jay24k · #2 09/27/2005, 08:09 PM

Porbably bleached. I had some that were pure pure white but I knew what color they were before hand. It took 2 months for them to recolor. Now I do have some pure white center zoos but not solid ones.

BradL. · #3 09/27/2005, 08:55 PM

Something to consider. Especially at such a high price and only a few polyps.I agree with jay

pad · #4 09/27/2005, 09:50 PM

I have never seen pictures of bleached zoos. Anyone have one?

dustin Combs · #5 09/27/2005, 09:55 PM

I have a colony of pink zo's that all turned white under mh's. What is strange the colony is spreading from a few polyps to over 60 all white. I will keep you informed if they change back to pink

jay24k · #6 09/27/2005, 09:58 PM

I can show you a picture but it won't be till next week. The ones I have are a pure pure white. I was hoping they would die. They were really ugly paly's. I ended up tweezing them but the ones I missed colored up. It took a long time though. They were cool looking. Too bad I am honest and didn't sell them as pure white zoos.

jcgso · #7 09/28/2005, 07:27 AM

Interesting. I didn't realize zo's could bleach. I'm usually in the LFS once a week, so if they're not sold I'll keep an eye on them.

olsalty · #8 09/28/2005, 07:53 AM

they can bleach from too much light or go completley clear from not getting enough. When I got my GPE they were completly clear and had no skirts what so ever.

john76 · #9 09/28/2005, 07:56 AM

Zoos can bleach for plenty of reasons. The most common in my tank is when a frag gets knocked in to a dark spot, like under my rockwork or in the back of the tank somewhere. When I eventually find it it's usually way lighter than the actual color. I had one that I mistakenly left in my overflow box while moving stuff around. When I found it a month later it was all white with a yellow skirt. Looked cool, but after a week or two it colored back up. I've never seen an a naturally all white zoo, or any coral that was naturally pure white. Wouldn't make sense really since it would lack any zooanthellae.

reefinallday · #10 09/28/2005, 11:01 AM

never seen white zos before, bout 90% sure no such thing in population

mightymouse · #11 09/28/2005, 06:10 PM

id buy em if they were really pure white thatd be cool i saw a pure white encrusting gorgonian before but turns out my friend that worked at the lfs told me on the DL they were really bleached very cool looking though

JnS · #12 09/29/2005, 12:15 AM

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Originally posted by reefinallday
never seen white zos before, bout 90% sure no such thing in population

http://drmaccorals.com/sys-tmpl/newa...oraz&UID=10728

SWFanatic · #13 09/29/2005, 12:50 AM

Yeah I have a small colony of those from Dr. Macs. They are really cool. WPE - White People Eater

jay24k · #14 09/29/2005, 07:20 AM

They look sort of green in the center. I still really don't think there are pure white zoos. Just a note and I could be wrong, but my zoos looked similiar to dr mac's when they were bleached really bad. Let us know if they remain the same color in 2 months.

john76 · #15 09/29/2005, 07:37 AM

I doubt that is the actual color.... but I could be wrong.

Avi · #16 09/29/2005, 08:24 PM

I was out of town about a year ago and went into a local fish store and saw white palyathoas. They looked really good and I'd never seen whites so I bought them and took them on the plane home. Turns out that though they looked great, they apparently were bleached because now, they're a boring shade of green.

sharkboy · #17 09/29/2005, 09:35 PM

i got some likt that with a tank i bought, they never returned to a different color.

jay24k · #18 09/29/2005, 09:46 PM

My white ones were a bland boring green too. They are also fast fast growers.

oddballs · #19 10/01/2005, 06:09 PM

ive never seen any stay white!!

Speckled Grouper · #20 10/01/2005, 07:39 PM

I went snorkling about 2 weeks ago and the zoa's in my usual spot where all bright white instead of the usual brown and green. So I picked some and they are on their way to turning brown and green, I wonder what bleached them in the ocean?

bngowe · #21 10/15/2005, 06:17 PM

Man ..i bought allllll white zoos. . thought.. "man ..this cant be bleached never seen bleached zoos before." and they were such a nice BRight white color. ..not like a clear white. .but .. a WHITE WHite..

a few months later they turned brown...=/

Avi · #22 10/15/2005, 11:00 PM

I guess this all means that people really want all white...pure white zoanthids, though there doesn't seem to be such a thing.

ficklefins · #23 10/30/2005, 11:48 AM

There was a lot of talk about showing pics of white/bleached zoas. The zoas on the left were in a dark tank with no lights for 2months. They survived fine but look white right now. When they color up they will look like the zoas on the right.

cj_basser · #24 10/30/2005, 06:50 PM

here are some white center zoos that i found on PlatinumReefs.

http://www.platinumreefs.com/softies.html

furforfour · #25 10/31/2005, 12:02 AM

Zoas with white centers are pretty common. I agree with everyone who says there are no pure white zoanthids which are not bleached. The ones ficklefins posted above are a good example of completely bleached zoas.