Coral ID

[Gloomisboy]

Can any one help in ID'ing these Brown polyps. bought a colony of yellow Polyps but these brown ones were on there aswell.

 

[iDream]

looks like cinnamon polyps

 

[Gloomisboy]

Thanks for the 411.

 

[Fishguy2727]

Both of those polyps can end up taking over and are considered a nuisance by some, just like Xenia.

 

[mr_X]

yep. those yellow ones are parazoanthus gracilis. some folks say they sting neighboring corals. i've never kept them so i can't say for sure. they are actually considered a colonial anemone.

 

[midwestsalt]

those are Button polyps They grow fast Personally i would scrape them off the rock