Brown button polyps???

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Hi guys my LR had polyps all over it. I was told brown button polyps. They have been thriving in my tank for over a month, spreading like crazy but they have lost the brown drab color and glow like crazy at night
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pinks, greens and some orange
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My black unknown polyps have orange glowing centers on a few. The guys at the Reef store told me to hang onto the blacks and try to frag them as they have never seen anything like them.
Anyway, do brown button polyps have color? These guys have always been a dull brown but since feeding phytoplancten <sp?>> they are colored.
Here is a picture when I first got the rock
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black polyps with the browns, about 3 weeks ago
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Taken today

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Stephanie
 

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The brown polyps are actually brown because they have been and still are getting to much light. They are actually Green Implosion Palys...I have some of the same :)
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Green or brown, unless you just want a full tank, I would toss them. Plenty of people wage war with these things once they move past the beginner stage and they are near impossible to eradicate. I personally used to throw them out by the handful

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They were the first thing that grew in my tank and luckily for me they stay on their own little patch and have not grown out very far. I keep them for sentimental value. Mine are sort of orangish/brownish but have morphed into something very nice looking. Whatup ontop!
 

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They were the first thing that grew in my tank and luckily for me they stay on their own little patch and have not grown out very far. I keep them for sentimental value. Mine are sort of orangish/brownish but have morphed into something very nice looking. Whatup ontop!

Yo! You should send him a picture of what real polyps look like :) like a certain frag of candy apple reds

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Nano I really hope they didn't charge you more for the name green implosion.. The implode your tank! They are basically green buttons

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If your actively seeking those types, if you had to get any, go with nuclear greens.. They are bright!!

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