Help ID sps hitchhiker...

[Mytinysea]

Was at the liveaquaria open house a couple months back and picked up a nice orange zoa rock, orange because my daughter loved it.....but anyway I was redoing a couple rocks to reduce flow to my elagance coral and spun the zoa around. Only to find this



Bright green with red polyps....very small about 3/16"x1/4", trying to ID so I can figure out how I can keep this little guy going.

 

[inktomi]

If it's brightly colored and the polyps are out... I'd leave it be! It must be happy in that spot to have grown and still be colorful after a couple months.

Sorry I can't help that much on WHAT it is exactly. Any chance you could get a closer photo? Is it growing along the surface of the rock, or branching out? What do the polyps look like?

 

[Mytinysea]

Polyps are tiny, in that little piece there are about 10 of them. Once I noticed the little guy, it was right on the edge of the zoas so I needed to get the two separated so they would overgrow it.

 

[Mytinysea]

It is growing along the rock. The base is a very smooth and like I said bright green....I'll try and get a better picture.

 

[Mytinysea]

Hope this is better

 

[dread240]

so small it could turn out to be any type of sps, but most likely a montipora i'd think

 

[inktomi]

I'm going to guess that it could be an encrusting montipora.

What type of light do you have it under?

 

[Mytinysea]

Led sol blue 60,60,60

 

[Finland]

I am going to guess a green pocillipora. I had a big colony spawn and ended having literally a hundred little pocis. They all started as a small bright green dot that encrusted before they shot up branches. Look pretty similar to your second pic.

 

[smokenax]

plus on a montipora encrusting.