Can anyone id

[Cunning_plan]

They are about half a cm in diameter and look like a rather dull clove. Any safe way to remove without spreading?

While we're at it, if anyone knows what the tiny white things are I'd be interested, they cover most of the rock in the tank.

 

[sixty_reefer]

The white things could be spionid worms harmless, how long did you had the cloves? Are they spreading fast?

 

[sixty_reefer]

Just asking as they look a bit like smurf polyps

 

[Cunning_plan]

Just asking as they look a bit like smurf polyps

I saw them for the first time about 30 minutes ago. They are in an obvious enough place that I'd have expected to see them sooner.

The rock they are on can probably be taken out, is this something I should be doing immediatley?

Worth adding that I have recently been feeding reef energy AB+ (two weeks, half dose) and that I have taken my file fish out and put in the sump as he was eating my acans.

 

[sixty_reefer]

I saw them for the first time about 30 minutes ago. They are in an obvious enough place that I'd have expected to see them sooner.

The rock they are on can probably be taken out, is this something I should be doing immediatley?

Worth adding that I have recently been feeding reef energy AB+ (two weeks, half dose) and that I have taken my file fish out and put in the sump as he was eating my acans.

there’s not much info on smurs yet all I know is that they are quite rare coral

 

[MaxTremors]

Looks like an alveopora and not a clove polyp (alveopora have smooth round polyps, cloves are feathery). An alveopora is an LPS and doesn’t spread like cloves or anthelia do. I really like them and personally would leave it.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Looks like an alveopora and not a clove polyp (alveopora have smooth round polyps, cloves are feathery). An alveopora is an LPS and doesn’t spread like cloves or anthelia do. I really like them and personally would leave it.

That’s why am saying smurfs mate, alveopora got 12 tentacles/lashes this one is a octocoral.

 

[MaxTremors]

That’s why am saying smurfs mate, alveopora got 12 tentacles/lashes this one is a octocoral.

You’re right, I didn’t count the tentacles. I hadn’t ever heard of a ‘Smurf polyp’ but did some googling, and I think you’re right, or it’s at least something similar. Cool looking coral (the blue ones are really pretty).