Protopaly thread!!!

[deacon hemp]

This has to be one of my favorites.They grow huge,sometimes bigger than quarters.They also havent been the slowest either,i get a few poyps every week or so.In some lighting they also get a green skirt!

sorry guys,they arent for sale.

[muck]

I have the same ones.
Out of curiousity what lighting are you running deacon?

[deacon hemp]

Only a 96 powerquad and they are 15 inches below! Yours look different under MH correct?

[OCDP]

those are freakin awesome haha... need to find me some of those bad boys

[Delphinus]

I had no idea until last week that those buttons could come in different colours. I've got some greenish ones in one tank and about a zillion brown ones in amongst my tanks.

Red though ... that is very cool. Thanks for posting the picture.

[deacon hemp]

I think protopalys are the sweetest of all zoo's they are really colorfull,bigger than a pencil eraser,and come in cool two tone morphs.They are in the same family as purple people eater,RPE,ect.

EDIT: the speckelled ones in different colors are also quite nice.Please people post pics of your sweet palys!!! cmon!!

[Joe Reefer]

I have those too.

[deacon hemp]

Ive seen that they get a nice salmon color under MH lighting,what color bulb do you run?

[Bob I]

Could someone who knows post the difference between zoanthids, and Palythoa I sold my corals book, and don't know the difference.

I remember having some green button polyps that wanted to take over the tank.

[deacon hemp]

Palythoa are the matting type that encrust like a GSP.Protopalys look like a big zoanthid usually more colorfull and dont share a continous mat.Green button polyps are proto's.Acual paly's you dont see to often and they are usually tan,brown,green.Hope this helps.