Cobalt blue softy-“SMURF POLYPS”!

[JasonK84]

Here’s how it’s looking today. 15k orange lense and macro lense.

 

[JasonK84]

Today’s pic unfiltered

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

Watching INTENTLY!!!!

 

[KingTideCorals]

Quite possibly....

 

[JasonK84]

Me thinking I might really have something rare and unique!

 

[JasonK84]

Any other guesses as to what these could be? This is getting exciting!

 

[TriggerFinger]

Did the store have any other frags of this? If so, you need to buy them all!

 

[JasonK84]

Did the store have any other frags of this? If so, you need to buy them all!

It was the only one.

 

[2BeAlive]

Following. Love the colour!

 

[JasonK84]

Nobody even think to ”Gargamel” on my parade! :p

 

[Sosuke]

 

[Sosuke]

Well after a little research its rare alright since the only record found of "Smurf Polyps" was by David Jones from MaidenHead Aquatics.. Its NPS so feed it right away! here's the article


https://reefs.com/2018/02/19/smurf-polyps-enigmatic-blue-soft-coral/

 

[Sosuke]

Oops my mistake sixty_reefer has also written about the surf polyps too

 

[sixty_reefer]

Well after a little research its rare alright since the only record found of "Smurf Polyps" was by David Jones from MaidenHead Aquatics.. Its NPS so feed it right away! here's the article


https://reefs.com/2018/02/19/smurf-polyps-enigmatic-blue-soft-coral/

this is definitely some sort of nps @JasonK84 I would consider fragging your coral and share it with someone that has a good reputation keeping NPS corals would be a shame to lose this one :)

 

[GlassMunky]

Me thinking I might really have something rare and unique!

its just blue symbodium. its not rare lol

 

[KingTideCorals]

Lets see a recent pic of it in the tank, also try ans snag a shot at night as well!

 

[GlassMunky]

Here’s how it’s looking today. 15k orange lense and macro lense.

you can even see the slightly green tips of the polyps in this photo. compared to all the photos online

 

[GlassMunky]

whereas these polyps are completely blue and rounded tips

 

[JasonK84]

its just blue symbodium. its not rare lol

We shall see I guess. If you find a pic of known Sympodium looking as this does I’d be grateful to you for sharing it here.

 

[Sosuke]

I think it is still smurf polyps since even the Sympodium that were really blue were feathery unlike Jasons. His piece has more squishy polyps similar to Goniopora or alveopora rather than polyps like sympodium. However the actual base of the 2 corals are very similar to one an other. Only time will tell at this point