Devils Hand growth and care?

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Hey all, I was just looking at my devils hand and noticing that it has a new "finger" I'll call it, growing. I've had this thing for along time now, probably about 8 months or up to a year, and it's came along way. I started off not really liking it much, I didn't pick it out, but as it grows in the tank its also been growing on me. I love all the little polpys it has. However, I have a couple other corals really close to it, so I wanted to see if anyone has any pictures of them when they grow big. Does it just have 1 stem? Or does the stem encrust and get fatter as it gets larger? I don't care about it doing anything to the Xenia next to it (I thought the Xenia was dead since it hadn't came out in months, then bam, it was just playing hid and seek), but I don't want my palys to bother it and visa versa, the palys are growing like weeds right next to it, but most of them are still on a plug so I can move them if it gets to crowded.

Here it was back in May. Sorry for the blue, I think my older pics are saved on google drive or something.
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Here it is today.
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I don't really do anything special, no spot feeding or anything. Back when I first got it, it was bleached, all white and maybe as round as a nickle with only a few little polyps.

So is this normal growth, or should I be doing more for it in terms of feeding? I do feed the tank reef roids when I remember, every few days or so, but I just put it in and let the flow take care of the rest.

I have some baby palys growing just to the left of the base of the devils hand. And these grow big and tall so I may have to move them.
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Will the palys fight the devils hands base at all and damage it? Or is the warfare more in the polpy themselves?

Anyone have any pics to share? Any thoughts on coral fights? [emoji50]

Thanks
 

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