Catalog zoas

[Ilya_Tihomirov]

Good time, dear reefers. Prompt a resource with the most complete catalog zoas.

 

[ReefStable]

I think your best bet is just to work through zoanthids.com. That said, you will see the same zoa with multiple names based on source. For example, the Daisy Cutter / Stargazers.

That said, I've been thinking about taking this up myself by putting all of the known names on the photos. There are a LOT of them however.

I don't mean to discourage you because I think this is a valuable effort toward standardizing. It's just a long road so don't try to take it up in one day lol

 

[littlebigreef]

Look me up on instagram, been collecting for a long time and I've the the zoa name as a hash tag so you can see multiple pics of the same zoa under different conditions.

https://www.instagram.com/littlebigreef/?hl=en

 

[PicassoClown04]

Hey guys!! Zoabrary.com

anyone can add new zoas and I think there are several hundred listed already

 

[littlebigreef]

Hey guys!! Zoabrary.com

anyone can add new zoas and I think there are several hundred listed already

I have credentials from the admin and was adding, updating stuff at the beginning of 2020, but lost motivation as the pandemic wore on. From conversations he seemed pretty burnt out, it’s not a paying gig or anything, just a labor of love. I emailed him directly and was able to get rolling but that was also 3 years ago.

 

[PicassoClown04]

I have credentials from the admin and was adding, updating stuff at the beginning of 2020, but lost motivation as the pandemic wore on. From conversations he seemed pretty burnt out, it’s not a paying gig or anything, just a labor of love. I emailed him directly and was able to get rolling but that was also 3 years ago.

I love the site and added a bunch of entries during the pandemic and spent hours scrolling through all the listings. I would really love for the general public to start adding zoas and also vendors when they release a new zoa

 

[littlebigreef]

I love the site and added a bunch of entries during the pandemic and spent hours scrolling through all the listings. I would really love for the general public to start adding zoas and also vendors when they release a new zoa

I should say I have admin credentials. It’s nice people can login and begin adding stuff. The caveat is that given the amount of erroneous or one-off ID’s on this forum there’s the potential to dilute the usefulness of it. It would be nice to have a way for multiple people to validate any ID.

 

[TnFishwater98]

Look me up on instagram, been collecting for a long time and I've the the zoa name as a hash tag so you can see multiple pics of the same zoa under different conditions.

https://www.instagram.com/littlebigreef/?hl=en

Nice work. I don’t Instagram so I get booted after a bit but nice collection!

 

[TnFishwater98]

I love the site and added a bunch of entries during the pandemic and spent hours scrolling through all the listings. I would really love for the general public to start adding zoas and also vendors when they release a new zoa

Where?
Nevermind…. Found it.

 

[PicassoClown04]

I should say I have admin credentials. It’s nice people can login and begin adding stuff. The caveat is that given the amount of erroneous or one-off ID’s on this forum there’s the potential to dilute the usefulness of it. It would be nice to have a way for multiple people to validate any ID.

Maybe a system like the one Wikipedia has? Where people can edit the post? It would definitely be nice to combine posts such as “daisy cutters” and “stargazers” into the same listing

 

[littlebigreef]

Nice work. I don’t Instagram so I get booted after a bit but nice collection!

Thanks, that IG account goes back to 2016 but I started collecting in 2010. There’s probably some 350-400 strains both named and unnamed. One thing working in its favor is that the lighting and lens filter is consistent over long periods of time (I’ve changed filters a handful of times). But, I don’t juice pics so what you’re seeing is a pretty accurate representation of what stuff looks like.

 

[littlebigreef]

Maybe a system like the one Wikipedia has? Where people can edit the post? It would definitely be nice to combine posts such as “daisy cutters” and “stargazers” into the same listing

I tried doing that on a few as I recall. But yeah, with legacy knowledge of strains you can cut through the marketing name game and eliminate superfluous IDs. Plenty of strains can go in buckets or silos of ‘same types.’