What is this Puppy

[JulesH]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone can Identify this animal highlighted in red, they are a few millimetres in length. I thought it looked a bit like a Clove polyp, I have none in my tank!

 

[MadreeferNJ]

I agree with you looks like a Clove polyp.

 

[JulesH]

Its funny but ChatGPT does not agree with me, it says they are Digitate Hydroids. Digitate Hydroids seem to have thinner tentacles and more of them?

 

[DSC reef]

Definitely not hydroids, those look like clove polyps (clavularia)

 

[BZOFIQ]

cloves

 

[JulesH]

I wonder where they hitchhiked from, I have not put any wildlife in the tank for a long while!

 

[Land&Sea]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone can Identify this animal highlighted in red, they are a few millimetres in length. I thought it looked a bit like a Clove polyp, I have none in my tank!

Looks like a tiny piece of GSP (Green Star Polyps)

 

[Dom]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone can Identify this animal highlighted in red, they are a few millimetres in length. I thought it looked a bit like a Clove polyp, I have none in my tank!

That's not a puppy.

 

[BZOFIQ]

Looks like a tiny piece of GSP (Green Star Polyps)

GSP would have longer tentacles.

 

[Land&Sea]

Looks like a tiny piece of GSP (Green Star Polyps)

GSP would have longer tentacles.

I prob should’ve really zoomed in on it before I even spoke not one of my best “quick to judge” responses

 

[MasterClassReefs]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone can Identify this animal highlighted in red, they are a few millimetres in length. I thought it looked a bit like a Clove polyp, I have none in my tank!

Looks an awful lot like a clove polyp to me. That green is intense!

 

[BZOFIQ]

I prob should’ve really zoomed in on it before I even spoke not one of my best “quick to judge” responses

No worries, we all try our best.

Happy reefing.

 

[commod0re]

GSP would have longer tentacles.

I have a GSP frag with short tentacles BUT a key indicator here imo is that GSP polyps have a little whitish circle in the center, and they come right out of the mat without visible stalks.

The ones in OP’s pictures have bright green centers. Combined with the long and relatively thick stalks below them, they’re almost certainly clove polyps imo