Identification please!

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RayneBow

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I purchased this bundle of coral several months ago. and I forgot what they're called.

Can you identify them?

I dont have the yellow fingery coral anymore, it just died and my shrimps and fish ate it.

My clowns had grown attatched to the coral circled in white. It had really spread over most of the rock.

the one circled in yellow had reduced, yet its spreading to a rock behind it.

I know 6 is a mushroom, and HUGE now.

5 in green I dont have anymore.. just like one button left.

can someone identify them? I have to write it down to remember!

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And BTW.. this is thatdarndragon. I lost the pass to that account and just created a new one

silly me, forgot to add the pics.

this is the most recent, updated. the carpet thingy is growing wild!

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1. Pulsing Xenia or possibly normal Xenia
2. Button Polyp (Zooanthid)
3. Possibly some sort Devils finger coral.
4. Clavularia, Sansibia or maybe Briareum
5. Closed button polyps (Zooanthid)
6. Mushroom
 
1. Clove polyps
2 agree, button polyps
3 looks closed. At first I thought it was a dead bleached out sps; cladiella sp.
4 star polyps?
5 closed zoanthids
6 mushroom

SH
 
#1 is not a xenia. Xenai's grow out of stocks this appears to be colonizing the rock. I do agree with clove polyps.

If it does pulse and this is a rare moment when they were all open I would say anthelia, but these do appear to be clove polyps.
 
Agreed, Anthelia forms an encrusting foot like stalk that it grows from (didnt see this in the photo when i answered). Xenia doesnt form an encrusting foot that it can retreat into when its dormant.

I would say that its definately an Anthelia or closely related species.
 

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