African Blue Steel
 

I just wanted to post this after getting a flood of responses to the picture I posted of these in my tank journal.......Red Coral Calgary still has some of these zoas......

here is what they look like at the store
http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/P1011246.jpg

and here is the picture from my tank
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP4941.jpg

get em while their hot!:wink:

Neither are hornets. the bottom one is most likely Blue Steels.

Snagged the last rock of these off Kevin a few weeks back, can always count on Red Coral for some of the nicer zoas out there.

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6116/mg4206p.jpg

Not before I scooped some:twised:


actually those two pics are the same zoa.....mother colony at the shop and frag in my tank.....I just wasnt sure about the fancy name(I get confused with all the silly names).....look like blue steels to me too....at any rate there is still a whack of them at the shop if anyone is looking for some....:wink:

I got a nice small frag of these from Snappy and he has them listed as Blue Hornets.

these are the hornets http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?modul...g2_itemId=8778


these are Blue steel http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?modul...g2_itemId=9074

Oh, now I see the difference. If you have a better camera...they're Blue Hornets.

hmm judging by the zoaid pics they look alot more like hornets then the blue steel.... we sold out of em quick, and people were all calling em hornets, so i dunno....

Steve

Hornets have a green upper skirt and disc colour lower skirt so it looks like they alternate. Thats what the purple hornets are so I dont see why the blue would be any different.

The Blue Steels have green on both skirts from I can tell. I have a piece from Levi and its definatly a blue steel.

I'm pretty sure those are LifeSaver Skittle Eye Barney zoas.

K.

steels have the green mouth with no ring around it.....hornets have the green ring circling the mouth:biggrin:

I'm pretty sure the ones I traded you were Purple Hornets Ryan, hows that frag doing for you btw? Haha ironically we are probably arguing about the exact same species just exhibiting a different morphotype. Although mine don't alternate (All of them exhibit the metallic green color), IMO they look more like Hornets (Purple) than the Blue Steels.

Those sound pretty tasty, you should probably put a statement of liability exclusion otherwise you might get into a lawsuit Kien...

Doing good so far Levi cant wait for them to fill in. How are the Happy Sam Hains doing?

Hands down my favorite zoa now next to Candy Apple Reds, they are actually the brightest thing in the tank :surprise:. Thanks again for the swap!

No problem Levi, just keep me in mind as you frag stuff!

We will be up on feb 19th if your feeling brave with the cutters.