2 different coral ID's please

[stingeragent]

Trying to get an id on these corals. The one pic they are clearly visible starting to cover the whole rock. The other one is just a tiny piece right in the center. It seems to have white stems and then brown branches. I blew up the image as its very hard to see with your eyes, and the tiny arms on it look like a pine tree or something similar.

[nlgill13]

possibly some type of zoanthid/palythoa in the first pic.

Second pic i couldn't see anything

[ReeferBill]

Sorry to tell you get rid of those aptasia,

[stingeragent]

WHich one is aptasia? I looked a lot of images of aptasia and it doesn't look like that as far as I can tell.

[Teddynola]

I've had more than my share if aiptasia and that does not look like it. The wispy tentacles are similar, but the body looks too...meaty, for lack of a better description. Looks more like yellow polyps, although I'm not convinced of that either.

[stingeragent]

Well I have yellow polyps in the tank, but the body on these is wider than the yellows I have even though my yellows are like 3x their overall size. Most of these corals or whatever they are are mostly white. One is starting to get a golden color. I guess I'll leave them to grow and see what happens.

Edit. Looking again my yellow polyps have a yellow button head on them. These seem like they are almost hollow the whole way down that I can see.

[DSMpunk]

#1 probably a palythoa
#2 Looks like some sort of colonial hydroid

[greech]

#1 probably a palythoa
#2 Looks like some sort of colonial hydroid

Agreed.