Coral hitchhiker - identification???

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I picked up some palm tree clove polyps, which you can clearly see in this picture. However, what is the coral circled in black at the base of the plug? It's hard to get a good picture because it's behind those cloves. It is growing like a floor mat over the plug. It has grown quite a bit over the past few months.

If anyone needs a better picture, I'll try later this afternoon to upload one.


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Will do. I'll take one later this afternoon and upload it. I'll use something to try to move the cloves out of the way.
 
Thanks everyone for the quick responses. It definitely looks more stony, like a stony mat. As soon as I can, I'll get a picture uploaded. I'll recruit my wife to help me move the cloves out of the way....;Wideyed
 
It’s attached. I pulled away the cloves. However, to add on to my question about identification, what are those white twirly things? Some small and some bigger?

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PS. The mystery coral is right next to my thumb. It withdrew a bit when I picked it up.
 
It’s cool you got two corals for the price of one though!

Indeed, except I am working on a softy build and I don’t think this is a softy! Oh well, it was free! It has grown a ton since I got it, maybe doubling in size now?
 
Approximately 6 months later, and this is what that little tiny coral turned into...pardon all of the "dust." Just completed a sand bed stirring and tank cleaning effort.

Based on what it looks like now, this seems like an SPS...which means perhaps I posted this in the wrong forum. Ha!

Any ideas what kind of SPS? I had wanted to do just a softy reef, but I have become so enamored with this little guy that I can't bring myself to give it away or trade it in. It seems to do very well in my tank, despite my lack of care about following SPS coral guidelines in my tank.


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