Anyone else have a pipe organ coral?

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This is a new coral for me. In fact added to the tank just yesterday. Very cool piece if you ask me. It's a soft coral that puts down a calcium structure. Adds a very nice "flower garden" appearance.

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I have had them in the past but never had great luck with them. There is a huge article in the latest Coral magazine about them if you want to check that out.
 
I’ve had this one about a year now. It’s grown well. I couldn’t get the true color of this to come out in the pic. It’s really just white but on one side some of the polyps fluoresce green. I’d like to frag off just some green polyps and see if I could get a entire colony that way.

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I have three different types. This one is a tiny very short polyp, neon green.

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I also have a pure white with no green at all and then the normal sort of white with dark forest green underside.

Unique corals has a cool little white with pinstripes on sale right now.
 
I purchased a frag and my spiny black sea urchin ate it.
 
I purchased a frag and my spiny black sea urchin ate it.

Omg, I forgot about that. My pencil urchin sat on one of my pipe organs for two days and only left crumbs behind. Thankfully it’s a resilient coral.
 

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