Is this mushy orange blob my yellow polyps

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this is going to sound dumb but. . .

So I went to my local Fish Store, has been wanting to pick up some yellow polyps for my soft coral Tank, they only had a tiny bit growing in the bottom of a tank already overgrown with soft corals. . .

she grabbed the substrate that the polyps were growing out of, but there were a lot of other things tagging along. She hardly charged me for the coral, and gave me the stuff that was attached, but now I can’t figure out where the yellow polyps went. I’m trying to separate everything onto their own plugs. And I don’t wanna end up throwing out the yellow polyp. There’s a Kenya tree, some sort of paly, and some orange goo. . . Is the g just a super retracted polyp?

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EDIT: Never mind, I found the yellow polyps, they were sucked in, and their bases were a sort of green color, they blended in with the rubble they were on
 
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this is going to sound dumb but. . .

So I went to my local Fish Store, has been wanting to pick up some yellow polyps for my soft coral Tank, they only had a tiny bit growing in the bottom of a tank already overgrown with soft corals. . .

she grabbed the substrate that the polyps were growing out of, but there were a lot of other things tagging along. She hardly charged me for the coral, and gave me the stuff that was attached, but now I can’t figure out where the yellow polyps went. I’m trying to separate everything onto their own plugs. And I don’t wanna end up throwing out the yellow polyp. There’s a Kenya tree, some sort of paly, and some orange goo. . . Is the g just a super retracted polyp?

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May be sponge but hard to tell at picture angle
 

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Just put it in a cup until it expands.

Also, DO NOT handle the paly with your bare hands! True palys are generally pretty dang toxic. Really, don't handle any corals with your bare hands, use gloves or tongs. Aside from hidden sharp edges and bristleworms, if you have a little cut on your hand, you could get a toxin or bacteria in it. Don't touch your rock with bare hands, either. The only reef-related wet things that are OK for bare hands are any weak-stinging anemones, like rock flower anemones. No sharp edges there.
 
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EDIT: Never mind, I found the yellow polyps, they were sucked in, and their bases were a sort of green color, they blended in with the rubble they were on

And oops, definitely was handling the crap out of all the corals barehanded. . .
 

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Go wash your hands very well, without touching your eyes, and implement a policy of not touching anything in the palythoas/zoanthid group. Most of them aren't toxic, or are only mildly so, but it can be hard to tell which species something is. So it's best to just assume that most of them are at least somewhat toxic. And some can be really, dangerously nasty. Like, "permanent vision damage from getting the slime in your eye" nasty.
 
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Heres a picture of the little guys, still a bit angry but they’ve only been in the tank less than 24 hours.

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also, in the background you can see the “palys”, at least that’s what the gal at the store thinks they are. I tried to get a better picture but they’re still pretty close up.

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That yellow one is beautiful! Is that the name... Yellow Polyp? I haven't heard of that before.
 

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Yellow polyps or yellow star polyps are awesome. I just bought a frag now to see how it’s doing after vacation as I forgot about it. Used to be common back in the day due to being invasive but seems to have fallen out of flavor due to almost no flouresence under blue (my experience)

The palys, taking a long shot, may be pandoras but honestly no clue?
 
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That yellow one is beautiful! Is that the name... Yellow Polyp? I haven't heard of that before.
I’ve seen them labeled as yellow polyps or yellow colony polyps. I guess they can be pretty invasive. When I was doing some research some people went as far as saying they were so invasive that they shouldn’t be sold in fish stores haha

But hey, this tank is going to be soft coral only, with plenty of “invasive” species, plus I put them on a little island by themselves. . .
 

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I’ve seen them labeled as yellow polyps or yellow colony polyps. I guess they can be pretty invasive. When I was doing some research some people went as far as saying they were so invasive that they shouldn’t be sold in fish stores haha

But hey, this tank is going to be soft coral only, with plenty of “invasive” species, plus I put them on a little island by themselves. . .
Ya, I have a xenia type (supposedly it doesn't drop babies everywhere) and it's out in the sand as well. I love the color of yours so I think it will be worth risking the invasiveness although if I find one I might be back here a year from now saying "don't under any circumstances get this coral you'll regret it". Haha
 

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Those are yellow parazoanthus (gracilis). You can find them for sale at Tidal Gardens sometimes.
 
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