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Old 12/28/2007, 10:19 PM
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crazy skirts.

is this normal...(or cool)

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Old 12/28/2007, 10:23 PM
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my green pe's look the same. they use to look like normal pe's brown with a hint of green when i had pc for light but after i got my MH's they now look like those.
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:32 PM
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why does this happen.
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:46 PM
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Never seen skirts like that before!
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:50 PM
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not sure are you running MH's and what type ? i do know its reated to running mh's. seems a lot of zoa's color morph under mh's and green pe's are one of them but they also seem to change the way their skirts look.

by the way nice picture reefdragon1086
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:54 PM
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thanks for the nice words killingseed and the zoos are under t-5 but all my other zoos look normal.
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:55 PM
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did you get them like that? or did they change of time?
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:57 PM
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I think they were under radiation or something. Live near a nuclear waste dump?
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Old 12/28/2007, 10:58 PM
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Looks cool...
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Old 12/28/2007, 11:00 PM
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they were like that when i got them. and i do live near a power plant lol j/k
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Old 12/28/2007, 11:01 PM
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not sure if you can ask or find out, if they were keeped under mh's.

overall they are fine and they might change under your t5's but i couldn't say for sure.

let me see if i can get a pic of mine.
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Old 12/28/2007, 11:27 PM
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well i tried to get a good picture but they are too far in the back. for me to get a good shot of them.

this is before i got mh's



this is today. big differnce. it took a couple months after i got mh's for them to morph like that and yes i lost some along the way :<
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Old 12/29/2007, 01:07 AM
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wow...
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Old 12/29/2007, 01:11 AM
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They just look bleached to me. Can you get a closer shot?
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Old 12/29/2007, 01:48 AM
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are they bleach, no. can i get a closer shot, not right now i would need to move that rock to the front of the tank. i cant do that till i get back from out of town, tue or so. but if i did get a closer shot they look like the ones reefdragon1086 posted with the wacked skirts. they have been like that for more then 6 months.
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Old 12/29/2007, 10:04 AM
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I'm wondering if this is similar to what happens to some LPS when under too much light, where you get oxygen bubbles trapped in the tissue from photosynthesis run wild.

Having said that, this does look much more regular and uniform than what happens to LPS...
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Old 12/29/2007, 12:05 PM
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they look like aspen palys, with really neat skirts. man that's nice
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Old 12/29/2007, 08:48 PM
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The skirts are different, but the paly color is nice. Do they grow fast?
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Old 12/29/2007, 09:28 PM
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they look like aspen palys
they look like zoanthus gigantus to me?

I have never seen them in or around Aspen CO?
These names are utterly stupid as they have no bearing on the genus or conditions for their color.

This species is one of the most effected by light and nutrient factors.

If you take a GPE from Indo and blast it with light you will get variations of this morph. You can also take another GPE from a different region and blast them with 14-20K high MH and they will turn RPE. If you take that same RPE that has been changed and blast it with 10k it will turn orange/brown. IMHO the key is to get one with a green skirt and blast it with 20k to turn it red then blast it with 10k and strong VHO and you will get that absurdly priced orange polyp. Blah, Blah, Blah.

The skirts in these seem very abnormal and might be stress or due to water conditions, shipping or a combination. It will be interesting to see if they resume to normal. good luck with your new polyps and they are very nice looking
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Old 12/30/2007, 05:27 PM
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no they grow pretty slow. i wish they grew faster
 


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