Coral ID - Snowflake looking polyps... or something

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The pics are about as good as I could do, until I get my SLR charged.

These things are TINY, theres a flower pot coral beside it so you can judge the size.

That are they? Up close they look like little snow flakes.

Had them at the bottom of the 150g, came and went, have moved them up higher and also switched to t5's and now they have doubled is square footage in the last 3 to 4 weeks.

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They look like daisy polyps to me. Usually a soft coral.
 
According to the pictures I've looked up about daisy polyps, I don't think so.

These are smaller, and the fingers coming out of the center of each polyp are much smaller, almost hairy like
 
No not the flower pot coral, the polyps I'm asking about are to the right of the Goniopora.

They are very small...
 
Macro is a bit hard because they are at the back of the tank.

Tongiht when I get home I'll get out the SLR and take some detail shots, and move it to the front if needed to get the macro focus shots.
 
i think they are either clove polyps for glove polyps, 20% of the pics match, 80% dont... but its probably because they are still so small.

Looks like this up close, still haven't gotten the camera out...

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I say if you don't know, kill them, nuke them with some calcium. If they are glove polyps kill them as well, those thing are like gsp, they'll take over every inch of valuable space given the chance. I get some of those once in a while, everything i'm not familiar with as well as bubble algae, zoas, gsp, aptasia, some weird types of algae, gets cleaned out with calcium.
 
I like them too, just wanted to know what they were called.

They are spreading pretty quickly, if it spreads to any surrounding rocks I'll let you know.
 
Super Blue Clauvia is what ultimatefrags.com is calling them.

http://ultimatefrags.com/coralinfo.php?ID=46#coral


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