Help me ID this zoa ;)

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I know someone knows what these beauts are…
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Looks like orange oxide or fire and ice under the blues
 

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There’s several snitch strains out there but two defining characteristics are 1) same colored skirt and mouth and 2) the center isn’t solid and is the same color as the median.

Over the years I’ve seen assorted (yellow mouth, blue median, red skirt) zoas similar to the OP’s pic but I don’t know them to have a widely recognized name.

@CoralStop and I both have a strain circulating in our area that was sold to him as ‘orange sunburst’ and to me as ‘peaches and crème.’ A Google image search leads me to believe the first name is more widely recognized.

Here’s a pic of mine for reference.

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That’s the closest thing I’ve seen so far.
There are several color morphs of Snitch Zoas out there. Check out the Snitch Zoas from New York Reef Aquatic. Their picture of their Snitches seem to be a dead-on match. I have personally ordered zoas from them several times in the past with no problems at all (I am not affiliated with them at all).
 

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There are several color morphs of Snitch Zoas out there. Check out the Snitch Zoas from New York Reef Aquatic. Their picture of their Snitches seem to be a dead-on match. I have personally ordered zoas from them several times in the past with no problems at all (I am not affiliated with them at all).

It’s not even morphs, there’s more than a few wholly unique strains that get call snitches but those all have the same characteristics. Hence, like fire and ice snitches are a bucket strain.

Nothing against NYRA (and I noticed they redid their site recently) but what they have labeled as snitches bear none of the distinguishing characteristics that make snitch’s snitches. What they have there is more similar to a crèamesicle or if you’re stretching a Gatorade.

*I do obviously see the similarity between those and the OP’s pic, as well as some differences.
 
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