Rare Zoanthids

If you like rainbow color zoas, then Candy Apple Reds is the zoanthid you need to add to your wishlist!

Even though the zoa is called Candy Apple Reds, the zoa’s primary plate color is green. Other characteristics include a white colored mouth, a colorful edge and a colorful, striped skirt.

This zoa closely resembles the Kaleidoscope morph and can sometimes be mistaken for them. Of course, both zoa would be great to add to your collection if you’re a collector that loves color.

So do you have the Candy Apple zoas in your collection? If you’re willing to trade or frag your colony, please leave some comments below.

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BLUE ZOAS! Everyone loves blue zoas. Blue is a color that’s not often seen in animals or plants unless you’re looking at certain parrots, birds or blue zoas. Because of such, blue zoas are often in high demand as soon as one learns of their existence.

Fortunately, blue zoas are not considered rare in the hobby even though they are great collectors’ items. If you’re looking for these beauties, my advice would be to try trading for them with local reefers. If all else fails, there are a number of online stores and private collectors that carry these zoas in stock.

If you’re lucky enough to get these zoas, my experience with them is that they like lower lighting conditions. Tub’s Blues‘ polyps are pretty small compared to other zoas and do not require spot feeding.

If you own these blue zoas and would like to trade or sell frags of them, please post in the comments below.

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Pink zoas can really add great color to any new reef tank; especially during the period of time when you are waiting for your live rocks to encrust with coralline. Below were some pink zoas I was lucky enough to get when I first started in the hobby. For a newbie who had just dived into the hobby, the pinks provided a GREAT contrast in a sea of green and brown zoas.

I don’t think this particular morph were ever officially named, but regardless of their anonymity, these classy pink zoas looked great in my tank. New polyps always started in the yellow spectrum and eventually they would color up into the pinks.

If you’re just starting out and are looking to trade some zoas for some pink ones, leave some comments below and let other reefers know. The pink zoas are pretty easy to take care of and under optimal conditions can spread pretty quickly. The pink zoas I had grew pretty fast in the shadier parts of my 90g which were under 14k Metal Halides with actinic supports. Your mileage may very.

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The Georgia Peaches (or Nuclear Peaches) zoanthus is one of my favorites because it was one of the zoas I owned that not a lot of other people had. Even though I didn’t hype it up, I’ve always thought it was one of the best morphs in my collection.

Under MH lighting and actinics, the peach color really popped – to the point of radioactivity!

When I showed these pictures to the community, some have even suggested these zoas could be a morph of the rainbow zoas. What do you think? Are these more like rainbows or are they simply peachy?

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As far as green zoas go, Mean Green zoas is one of the more sought after green zoas.

Mean Greens can be easily identified by their brown skirts, green plate and an enlarged white center that extends just beyond the mouth.

I’ve found these zoas do better in medium lighting as they seem to extend better in that setting coupled with medium flow.

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