Some kind of invert - anyone have an idea

[Lenny_S]

Noticed these the other day, anyone know what they are?
Normal lights

With a flashlight

 

[nemo1017]

...Clove polyps?

 

[ahiggins]

They do look like clove polyps. They're stationary right?

 

[nemo1017]

They'll spread like zoanthids and mat outwards. Had them once in a tank. Over took nearly everything until I took those rocks out.

 

[ahiggins]

They're like the weed of the coral world lol

 

[Lenny_S]

Ugh, ok, thanks all

 

[JaimeAdams]

My wife likes the clove polyps. She made me spend way too much for a rock of them at the LFS one time.

 

[Lenny_S]

They would make an ok filler... just wouldn't want them overtaking any of my SPS... are the invasive that way or are the more well behaved?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

theres a bunch of different kinds. the most invasive is the blue clove polyp. i had some similar to those. they didnt mat like the pretty metallics or giant cloves/ they quite literally disappeared into the rock. no positive ID just anecdotal stories.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/mini-cloves-invasive-weed.231826/

 

[Lenny_S]

I'll keep the thread updated with what these do, they seem to have come up from under the Hawaiian Pocillopora... perhaps it was on the plug and I didn't see it. As long as it grows on empty rock and not over any of my corals I don't mind. So far they are growing away from the coral, not on it.