Nanofins
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About two years or a little less back, a local reefer showed off a wild collected polyp he picked up as Shazaams from someone else on the net...crazy looking polyp. At the time it kinda resembled some morph of Candy Apple Orange. Cool either way. Various drama ensued and they acted finicky and then proceeded to wander off in his tank and went MIA for months. He finally relocated them and put them in a cup for a while to ensure he didn't lose them again. They "took" this time and he managed to grow them out to a small number of polyps. During this whole time I was intrigued enough to search for them on the net, but to no avail; no references to a Shazaam paly (plenty of references to Gomer of course). Recently he finally had a few polyps to offer up, so I got a few for myself and a friend. They look a bit different now, but are still really nice, and I would have to say unique. So far they seem to be holding their colors in our tanks and I believe these are different from my CAO's and CAR's. Could change with time, but so far in his tanks and ours they do not look like my other Candy Apple varieties--could be another morph. Anyway, I was curious as to whether these Shazaams were picked up by anyone else and what their observations about them might be.
So far they are proving as hardy as any paly and they open up nice and big. They aren't the fastest grower though from his reports. They took over a year from when he rediscovered them to reach a point where he could offer a few single polyp frags. Not sure if this is in part due to their adventures in the tank. Here is a pic of a couple polyps. As you can see they show a resemblance to Candy Apples, but the green center is overlaid with a peach color which doesn't seem to be going away, so you can only see a thin rim of green around the peach before the red. The colors on the disc are also off compared to the CAR/CAO. The skirts are also all tipped in green quite noticeably, though I have seen this on a few CAR's. Definitely liking this variety.
This pic was taken under 2 Blue+, 1 10K, and 1 Fiji Purple.
Just to be clear, I have no polyps to offer, and he is not selling any more either as we are both growing ours out, so please no requests at this time. Just wanted to share this cool looking paly with everyone and possibly gain some more information. Enjoy!
So far they are proving as hardy as any paly and they open up nice and big. They aren't the fastest grower though from his reports. They took over a year from when he rediscovered them to reach a point where he could offer a few single polyp frags. Not sure if this is in part due to their adventures in the tank. Here is a pic of a couple polyps. As you can see they show a resemblance to Candy Apples, but the green center is overlaid with a peach color which doesn't seem to be going away, so you can only see a thin rim of green around the peach before the red. The colors on the disc are also off compared to the CAR/CAO. The skirts are also all tipped in green quite noticeably, though I have seen this on a few CAR's. Definitely liking this variety.
This pic was taken under 2 Blue+, 1 10K, and 1 Fiji Purple.
Just to be clear, I have no polyps to offer, and he is not selling any more either as we are both growing ours out, so please no requests at this time. Just wanted to share this cool looking paly with everyone and possibly gain some more information. Enjoy!
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