Palythoa with 3 heads on one stalk!

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I have these purple death palys and a little while ago I saw that one of them had two heads on one stalk and I thought "oh that's pretty cool" and then this morning I noticed that now it has three on the one stalk!
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idk I just thought it was pretty cool. Any ideas on why this happens or what causes it? The heads don't appear to be splitting the stalk in any way. It's just one fat stalk with three heads.
Also here is minu as he was feeling photogenic and kept getting in the pictures
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Perhaps he is just an overachiever!

#reefsquad, anything to lend here?
 
It looks like the polyp is folded giving the appearance of multiple heads. Pretty cool either way!!
 
I've had double heads before.
 
I've had a Stratosphere Zoa do that before. I never ended up fully splitting. Every now and then I'll get a bud popping off the side of a stalk but only that one time where it appeared as if the polyp split partially.
 

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