ID Zoa / Palythoa please.

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I hate to ask for help ID'ing, but as a amateur I must learn to admit defeat and beg for help. I got this 4 inch wide rock with 3 types of corals. When I placed it in my tank, my hammers started pulling in and a couple of soft corals died. my zoos weren't affected. After I put more distance between this rock and my existing hammers, they started to recover. A little worn , but they are extending.
3 types . please note the pics are from a iPhone. Even with editing apps, I couldn't get the white balance right. First is a large (from dime to nickel size) disk with long tentacles and distinct glowing fluorescent green radial stripes. Each one seems to have one white strip. Second one looks like a small round disk, brown interior with orange tips. About the size of pencil erasers. The third is brownish in color, about the width of a pencil eraser with very long tentacles is in the center of the first picture. As long as if not longer than its green neighbors. What , if you can help, are these? Are they nuisance corals? Toxic and does not play well with others?

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Palythoa mutuki (formerly Protopalythoa mutuki) AKA Giant Green Palythoa. These guys have some pretty high concentrations of palytoxin, in fact one of the highest concentrations, so be careful when fragging
 

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The smaller one in the 1st pic looks like a Parazoanthus gracilis AKA Yellow Polyps which have lower levels of palytoxin but I'd still exercise caution just in case
 
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Palythoa mutuki (formerly Protopalythoa mutuki) AKA Giant Green Palythoa. These guys have some pretty high concentrations of palytoxin, in fact one of the highest concentrations, so be careful when fragging

I was afraid of that. I will have to get rid of them. I am a intelligent enough of a amateur to realize, I don't have enough experience to keep something that toxic.

Hopefully someone can also identify the brown with the orange tips on the disc / tentacles. that is complementary patter to several others I have and would like to keep it if my local store would help frag it. I can get several of those off the frag rock without having to get close to the large green ones.
 

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Could be Palythoa grandis or Palythoa sp. "singapura". Could also be another variant of Palythoa mutuki which has several growth forms and appearances
 

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