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#1 User is offline   Kingumar 

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Posted 02 July 2010 - 10:53 AM

i was given these as purple hornets that lost their color and was told the color comes back but its been a little over a month and i still don't see any color coming back. Although, i have had 3 more polyps since iv got them but they all see to have the same color. these are my first hornets that's why i am a little confused.

are these purple hornets?
if yes, what can i do to get their color back?

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Posted 02 July 2010 - 11:07 AM

A true 'hornet' has alternating colors on the tentacles and usually has 3 rings of color surrounding the mouth.
Since the 'hornet' craze as of late, anything remotely close to these specifications gets the 'hornet' moniker.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 01:31 PM

what lighting are you running?

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Posted 02 July 2010 - 05:43 PM

That's not a "real" hornet. That's a purple monkey dishwasher japanese deepwater zoanthidpaly. Posted Image

In all seriousness though, that doesn't look like the photos of "purple hornets" I have seen.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 06:55 PM

im running t5's and yeah im sure they r not now because i went back to the website that gave them away for free and there was a big deal on there about it
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