Coral ID

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It has a calcium skeleton. The polyps are small and not petal like so I don't think it's a pipe organ. And the polyps grasp like Xenia.
It's white/silver (it's under white lite but the video always makes it look like 100% actinic for some reason).
 

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It has a calcium skeleton. The polyps are small and not petal like so I don't think it's a pipe organ. And the polyps grasp like Xenia.
It's white/silver (it's under white lite but the video always makes it look like 100% actinic for some reason).
Palsing xenia
 
Could that be a short stalked alveopora?

Nm. Watched the vid and only 10 tentacles per polyp. Clove or galaxia?
 
I did some more searching and I believe I've identified it as 'sympodium'.
Never heard of it before.
But it's in my tank now, so...
 

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I have a blue-green sympodium. This isn't that, you'd see red tips on a greenish-blue polyp, but it does look pretty similar. Mine grows at a slow-reasonable pace, a little faster if fed Reef Roids or similar, and doesn't seem to be too fussy about light.
 
What we call 'Sympodium' in the hobby is actually a species of Alcyonium. This coral does not look like what we would call Sympodium, though. I would say this cor is either Xenia, Heteroxenia, or Unomia.
 

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