Soft coral ID

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Can someone help me ID this coral that I picked it up at my LFS. It pulses every now and then like a xenia but the polyps are tiny. I compared it the the pulsing xenia that they had there just to make sure it wasnt a baby verison but they had much larger polyps. The growth form of a more mature frag of this coral appeared to be more walling as well and the tank didn't have any stray invasive babies in it. It doesn't quite look like blue clove polyps but the heads are about the same size.

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Looks like blue pulse coral but may be pom pom xenia also
 
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Im not home to mess with the lights atm but here are some more pics.
They didn't have a name for it at the LFS and it was sold in the "corals in this section" with the price tag. Again they had a huge colony 5x bigger than this frag in one of the tanks. It grew bushy and the polyps were the same size as this one.
 

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