What are the names of my corals (BTA included)

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Hi all, can anyone give me the name of my corals. I’ve numbered them all and would be grateful for help in identifying.

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2) looks like gsp.
3) looks like palythoa grandis.
6) BTA
7) fire and ice zoa
10) nuclear green palys (be careful when fragging they have lots of palytoxin)
11) look like long clove polyps
12) LTA
16) kinda look like morphed purple monster zoa

attached are pics of my fire and ice zoa and purple monsters
 

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1. Toadstool
4. Chalice unknown
5. Chalice unknown
8. Stylophora
9. GSP
13. Cabbage leather mYbe
14. War coral
15. Closed up goni
17. Dragon soul favia

Hope i helped fill in the blanks lol
 

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1. Long polyp toadstool leather
2. Green hairy mushroom
3. Rhodactis mushroom
4. Green montipora capricornis
5. Red montipora capricornis
6. Torch or frogspawn
7. Zoanthids
8. Birds nest
9. GSP
10. Green palythoa
11. Green pipe organ coral?
12. Bubble tip anemone
13. Green cabbage leather
14. A type of war coral, possibly grafted (favites sp.)
15. Unhappy goniopora or astreopora
16. Zoanthids
17. Dragon soul favia

Nice looking corals by the way!
 

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Good teamwork! IMO I think that #8 is a green birdsnest because of the thinner branches, normally stylophoras have thicker branches. I think it looks similar to this:
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In both photos, the ends of the branches are greener (higher polyp density). IDK, but stylos usually have thicker branches. You could be right too, they are so similar!
 

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Good teamwork! IMO I think that #8 is a green birdsnest because of the thinner branches, normally stylophoras have thicker branches. I think it looks similar to this:
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In both photos, the ends of the branches are greener (higher polyp density). IDK, but stylos usually have thicker branches. You could be right too, they are so similar!
That thick branched birdsnest shown is quite infact unique :)
Beautiful specimen.

Generally, green birdsnest looks like this.
It has thinner branches with pointy tips vs
The large rounded double heads on the OPs photo. Its almost certainly a green stylophora.

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Perhaps the green birdsnest I mentioned is a stylophora. I just know that I've seen both pointy tipped and round tipped green birdsnest that definitely differ in looks from the stylophoras that I have. I'm going with the green round tipped birdsnest variety (whatever species it is).

Nothing like a good coral ID debate :) lol
 

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This is what my stylo looked like in my tank. Different color though. It does branch quite a bit.

Regardless of species, OP, You should snap off the branch with the algae before it ticks off the rest of the coral.

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Yep you can cut off that branch so it isn't unsightly. Your stylo looks very similar, mine might just be extra thick lol.
Sps grows wildly different across a large number of tanks. Its likely doing better in your tank if growing thicker with hardly any branching. Also could be a different species of green stylo. Theres more than 1 that ive seen.

Heres a 3" frag disc with branch of rainbow sherbet encrusting the whole thing before gaining any verticle growth in my tank lol.
 

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I definitely agree with you that environmental conditions affect the phenotypes (looks) of corals. I find it really cool (and sometimes frustrating) that the same coral can look so different in different systems. :)
 
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