Please ID this

[Mitchella68]

I’m trying to find out what this is
Grows great for me

 

[Chad Sepulvado]

Clove

 

[Mitchella68]

Hey thanks!

 

[DSC reef]

Looks like blue sympodium, very invasive

 

[sfin52]

Looks like blue sympodium, very invasive

@Mitchella68 welcome to reef2reef. That's has some amazing color. A very nice piece.
That's what I was going to say. Isolating to an island will help prevent it from taking over a tank. Treat like gsp and you'll be ok.

 

[Mitchella68]

I love a fast grown coral
But I have poor luck with my euphylia recently. Now I have never seen anyone picking at it there are suspects

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sympodium

 

[C. Eymann]

They are hard to tell apart but this could also be the dreaded sarcothelia as well maybe?

 

[Mitchella68]

It’s growing well for me if that helps
No one eats it either

 

[C. Eymann]

It’s growing well for me if that helps
No one eats it either

Softcoral ID is not my best so I'm not fully confident in telling you if its sympodium or sarcothelia, they are hard to tell apart, sympodium is a neat coral that has moderate growth rates and generally is easy to control, where as sarcothelia is looks neat too, but its growth rate is very rapid, it is also very resilient and hard to keep from taking over everything.

make them close up somehow with a Turkey baster or a poke, might help with ID

Like I said soft coral ID is not my strong suit, so I hope someone with more knowledge on differing these two suspected species from eachother will assist.

 

[Mitchella68]

Does this help

 

[Mitchella68]

And

 

[C. Eymann]

Does this help

To me that looks like sarcothelia, but as I said, I'm not strong with soft coral ID so seek a second opinion maybe?

And

Good pics, even spot some Aiptasia too,

but again maybe wait for a second opinion on it being sarcothelia vs sympodium


Awesome looking angelfish by the way!

 

[Mitchella68]

Thank you sfin52
They are my baby’s

 

[DSC reef]

Either way, sympodium or sarcothelia it's very invasive.