Corky finger, a type of Briareum, *not* very similar to GSP, one of the most under rated soft corals.
It isn't very colorful. A dull purple with brownish highlights.
It isn't fluorescent under blue lights.
BUT
It does grow well in less than perfect environments.
It doesn't shatter and spread all over your tank and make you curse it 2 years later.
It doesn't ooze all over everything in sight.
It grows upright. Until you decide to trim it shorter with just a pair of scissors, and just stick the top piece next to the main stick in the rocks for a more bushy look.
You can lean the initial frag on its side and it will sprout new limbs along the length, from latent buds, just like a climbing rose.
If you get tired of it years later and want the tank room for something else you can just remove the frag plug and lift off whatever pieces you let grow into the rocks.
(I would add a small dab of reef putty to cover any remaining tiny bits just in case.)
And it its own quiet way, it's beautiful.
Bare stick on the right is the latest trimming. Just did it an hour ago.
It isn't very colorful. A dull purple with brownish highlights.
It isn't fluorescent under blue lights.
BUT
It does grow well in less than perfect environments.
It doesn't shatter and spread all over your tank and make you curse it 2 years later.
It doesn't ooze all over everything in sight.
It grows upright. Until you decide to trim it shorter with just a pair of scissors, and just stick the top piece next to the main stick in the rocks for a more bushy look.
You can lean the initial frag on its side and it will sprout new limbs along the length, from latent buds, just like a climbing rose.
If you get tired of it years later and want the tank room for something else you can just remove the frag plug and lift off whatever pieces you let grow into the rocks.
(I would add a small dab of reef putty to cover any remaining tiny bits just in case.)
And it its own quiet way, it's beautiful.
Bare stick on the right is the latest trimming. Just did it an hour ago.