Button polyps or Aiptasia? (+ bonus Cyano?)

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Are these button polyps or Aiptasia?

(Also, if it’s possible to ID from the lone daylight photo, are the dark red blotches in the rock crevices and on the snail Cyanobacteria? They don’t budge even when blasted with water from a turkey baster.)

Thanks in advance!


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Those look like pallythoa polyps. The red looks like blotches of coraline to me.
Thanks! I think the pinkish-red spots are coralline, but the dark red (nearly black in the photo) splotches are soft. They don’t come off with the turkey baster, but I can grab chunks with tweezers, and it’s a pretty thick layer.
 
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The polyps are some member within zooanthidea. Can’t go beyond family based on photo. To get the actual genus dissection required. For species sorry but aquariums are not wild ecosystem.

“Green stuff” various macro algae. “Black tufts” also a macro algae. And various coralline algae as well.
 
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What “green stuff”? And why? It’s not dangerous, is it?

(Also, I did get something that should eat it; apparently coralline is tastier. 😛)
Not dangerous. Just good practice to get a handle on things when they 1st present themselves, before it gets to plague . Snails will not eat Marco algea. Need herbivores. What size tank is that?
 
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