These were all listed/sold as ‘eagles eyes’. Don’t tell me these aren’t meaningless.
These were all listed/sold as ‘eagles eyes’. Don’t tell me these aren’t meaningless.
These were all listed/sold as ‘eagles eyes’. Don’t tell me these aren’t meaningless.
I wish I could tell you the names of these zoas, but I’m no expert. Either way, they’re pretty and I will be following along to see if the ones on the right can be IDed because I like them & would love to find them for my tank.First post on r2r and my first corals! Anyone have any ideas on what these zoas are? I have an idea for the one on the left but the right is throwing me for a loop. Picked them up from an LFS and the one on the right is a bright yellow under blue filter lenses. Thanks in advance for any help and happy reefing!
The problem with your analogy is that there is no standard, there is no Ford Focus or Tesla. And there can be no standard because what a coral looks like is too variable, too dependent on uncontrollable factors. What even constitutes an ‘eagle eye’? I’m sure you’d say a purple mouth, orange base, and a green skirt, but the problem is that depending on the conditions and lighting (especially over time), an original ‘eagle eye’ might have a blue mouth, red base, and yellow skirt (and a zoanthid that isn’t an ‘eagle eye’ can have a purple mouth, orange base, and green skirt). So, when it comes to these names, a coral is whatever someone calls it.
The reason that this analogy doesn’t work is because roses are intentionally bred to have certain colors and traits, there are actual standards and known dominant and recessive traits/genes, the same is not true for corals.
Okay buddy why don’t you calm down? It’s very standard practice to name zoas and there are VERY strict standards, especially when you get towards the higher end range of zoas. Utter chaos are utter chaos, I could look at an utter chaos that’s been in the dark for 6 months and still tell you it’s an utter chaos. It’s fine that you think naming corals is stupid, but please don’t slam other people for trying to learn.
Again, that’s the point, they are listed/marketed/sold/mislabeled/mistaken-for/whatever-you-want-to-call-it as ‘eagle eyes’. I understand your point about using names to make identification easier. My point is that these names are meaningless in terms of identification because there is no standard. When you talk about dog breeds, or rose hybrids, or even koi or clownfish, there are standards by which they are classified. No such thing exists for corals, and its arguable that it’s not even possible to establish such standards. What constitutes an ‘eagle eye’ (or whatever). You say it’s one thing, and someone else says it’s something else, and another person says it’s neither of those things (and we can see evidence of that with a simple google search).Okay buddy why don’t you calm down? It’s very standard practice to name zoas and there are VERY strict standards, especially when you get towards the higher end range of zoas. Utter chaos are utter chaos, I could look at an utter chaos that’s been in the dark for 6 months and still tell you it’s an utter chaos. It’s fine that you think naming corals is stupid, but please don’t slam other people for trying to learn.
And just BTW, the last three “eagle eyes” pictures you posted are blowpop, cheesehead, and whammin watermelon. Please educate yourself before trying to slam people. To me, coral names are just for identification purposes; I don’t really understand why people would have an issue with that. It’s like instead of saying I have a blue and yellow zoa, I can say I have Blue Hornet. The person immediately knows what I’m talking about or they can easily find the exact one on google.
anyway, OP, i think the ones on the left are Kedds Reds. The ones on the right are more difficult due to a lack of pattern in the photo. Try looking up an Inception and see if that matches
GorgousIn case anyone was wondering I did get an ID on them. These were recently sold by ECC as Sunflower Palys, but they are probably more commonly known as Emerald Mauls. There are many types out there with a standard to uphold with their name by the way, most will tell you that OG purple hornets must have an alternating lash with a thin ring around the center making it much more different than LA laker which is also a yellow and purple zoa.
