Definitely Not A Yoda

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I bought these zoas as ‘Yoda’ a while ago. Now that the polyps are adult and popping babies I’m 100% sure they’re not yoda. Can anybody tell me what they may be? Thank you! Pics taken in blue light with an orange filter, color is very close to real life.
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Not sure, but it looks like Thermosphere?
 

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They somewhat look like yodas to me color might show better when they get use to your tank and lights.. but they do resemble yodas to me I’m no expert and I’m sure someone will say different
 
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The only part that makes them not look like Yodas is the lack of yellow around the mouth, but it looks like that may be coming in. They may look more like Yodas over time.

I could be way off, though. There’s definitely less yellow on the face than a typical Yoda.
That’s my thought on it, yoda typically have a very noticeable yellow/green area around the mouth and these clearly lack it. I waited until the polyps started to produce babies before posting about it cause I thought the color may develop but it never has.
 

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Yes they do but when they aren’t colored up it can be pretty pale and look close to yours. It’s probably not it but the yellow skirt looks really similar. They are definitely nice and a unique zoa either way. I’m curious and hope you figure it out.

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Zoanthids can change sooooo mcuh depending on many different factors!
 
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Zoanthids can change sooooo mcuh depending on many different factors!
Very true there are also so many slight morphs of different ones
Truer words have never been spoken.... the amount of zoas that have morphed in my tank is ridiculous! Really cool to watch though :). Currently I’m keeping the tank in pretty low nutrients since there’s an algae outbreak so maybe it will color up after I bring nutrients up? I don’t know!
 
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After a long search on Zoabrary, I think the closest match is Blue Alien ******? But those don’t have the green specks that mine do and they have a brown lower skirt whereas mine are yellow through and through
 

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