Does your stylophora spread everywhere too??

[Dkmoo]

I have a green stylo. About a month ago I started noticing tiny polyps showing up independently in new areas. They "look like" the same polyps as my main stylo colony and the first one i noticed did pop up at the foot of the colony. Now I'm noticing a lot more of these polyps in other parts of the tank, some are very far from where the main colony is.

Is this normal or should I be concerned that its some kind of invasive polyps?

Here is a pic of the main one at the foot of the colony. I posted about this a while ago when it was small so it was hard to ID. now it's much bigger so maybe better to see. The main colony is the upper left corner, out of the pic. The small branch on top is an accidental frag. The cluster in the middle is what I'm questioning. As you can see a new polyp popped up on the bottom too (the elongated sideway polyp on the bottom edge of the picture)

 

[Greg P]

My purple stylo never spread to new locations. Pocillopora are prone to doing so.

 

[Dkmoo]

Hmm maybe I got a pocci then. I know they are hard to differentiate

My purple stylo never spread to new locations. Pocillopora are prone to doing so.