Please help ID on LR

[mbmax]

I have this brown looking things on the live rock . They look like very small zoas . I used a toothbrush it looks like they are able to retrieve.

 

[mbmax]

They are growing all over the rocks and under the corals , nothing seems to be affected but the rocks have this brown patches everywhere.

 

[Fish Styx]

Please provide pics under white lighting to aid in ID.

 

[scottkoji]

it is extremely hard to tell from the pictures but this looks like it could be sympodium. Are they polyps that open and close?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have this brown looking things on the live rock . They look like very small zoas . I used a toothbrush it looks like they are able to retrieve.

Looks like star coral -common on live rock but can also be either lepastrea or cyphastrea coral. Im thinking star

 

[mbmax]

 

[mbmax]

New pictures, without the blue light

 

[mbmax]

it is extremely hard to tell from the pictures but this looks like it could be sympodium. Are they polyps that open and close?

They appear to open and close when touched.

 

[mbmax]

They are brown with a white center.

 

[JTP424]

Second some type of Sympodium or some type of carpeting coral.... there's a name for them, they can choke out other corals? Anyone else confirm?

 

[Fish Styx]

I think I agree. Definitely a Sympodium sp.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Second some type of Sympodium or some type of carpeting coral.... there's a name for them, they can choke out other corals? Anyone else confirm?

Are you thinking of clove polyps? (It's a name commonly used for a ton of different corals including Sympodium, which I've heard generally is less invasive than other types of clove polyps.)

 

[TnFishwater98]

Here is blue sympodium

This is blushing Star coral… It can encrust. Doesn’t have to be as vertical… Polyps retract when touched …

 

[TnFishwater98]

My first thoughts was it was blushing Star coral… But need better pics (white lights)

 

[Reefing102]

I’m leaning sympodium as well but I’m second guessing my self and also possibly thinking a species of colonial hydroids (but most pics I’m seeing are thinner)

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I’m leaning sympodium as well but I’m second guessing my self and also possibly thinking a species of colonial hydroids (but most pics I’m seeing are thinner)

I don't think these are hydroids.

 

[mbmax]

Thanks for all good opinions.
After listening and doing some research I also think is Sympodium , I found a few pictures online that looks very similar to what I see in my tank.
I just have to figure it out how to get rid of them.