Coral ID please (zoa)

FtwayneFish

FtwayneFish

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Can you please ID this zoa for me. Its the one mounted on the rubble with the really orange skirt. And also for some reason corals are brighter coming into my tank than when there in it for awhile, whether there coming from metal halide or T5. I have a 150w MH. phoenix 14k.

The skirt is very very orange and the mouth is yellow and the face is blue white.

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bump, dang
 
looks like it could be a fire and ice or a morph of it to me. check out zoaid.com

and that they look lighter is because of the MH, if you want them to be darker move them down lower and to where there is less intense light.
 
They loose flourescent pop because of my MH? These actual zoas came from a MH.
 
they become lighter because of the MH, they won't fluoresce much without actinic supplementation. bluer (20k) bulbs will have the colours 'pop' more whilst warmer(10k) bulbs show better growth. this is from what I have read and not from my experience. I run a 14k and I think it's a pheonix, plus my actinics turn on an hour before and off an hour after my MH.
 
i believe i have the same zoas and the same problem w/ them becomiing not as vibrant. when i got them they were the brightest hunters/neon orange. still orange but less. i only have pcs on this tank and i thought that was it. anyways, i dont know the name either.
 
Markushka said:
they become lighter because of the MH, they won't fluoresce much without actinic supplementation. bluer (20k) bulbs will have the colours 'pop' more whilst warmer(10k) bulbs show better growth. this is from what I have read and not from my experience. I run a 14k and I think it's a pheonix, plus my actinics turn on an hour before and off an hour after my MH.
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I agree with this. I use 4 bulb T5HOs with 2 being the actinic, which is less powerful than the MH they use at the store. I put my zoas at about midway in my 90g and they are more vibrant now than when I first bought them.
 
What are we saying?^ Can you maybe re word it? I thought MH is the best? I understand maybe the T5 produce more "pop" or acintic capabilty.
 
In my and many others opinion MH is the best closely followed by LEDs now. The light intensity that the MH causes the zoas to brighten. here is a good example.
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these are both fire and ices (from the same mother colony) however the polyp on the right was under LEDs while the colony is under T5HO. zoas expel zoanthellae, adopt brighter/lighter color, and shrink under intense light.

zoas are tolerant of lower lights, so if you want them to darken put them lower in the tank in a shaded or part shaded area.
 
See I have fire and ice, but there not that dark, there lighter.

The coral in question was under MH and its again under MH, I understand the light distance is diffrent. But the color lightens. Shouldnt it be brighter?
 
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