Palythoa tuberculosa

[ReefSafari]

Curious if anyone keeps these? I purchased a frag that had a couple of cool mushrooms on it, and this was on the frag also, everyone at the LFS thought it was a little chunk of Favia or something...But once in our tank and the lights went out, it was obvious that it was not a favia....lol

Curious if anyone keeps this type of Palythoa? Are they good/bad? Worth keeping? I would love to hear from other people that have these or have had them before.

This is what it looked like when we got it...

And this is what it looked like after the lights had been out for a hour or so, and I flipped the lights on really quick to snap a picture.

I would love to hear from people about these, Do you like them, are they rare? I don't see many people posting they have them, is there a reason for that? They are not the most colorful things, but they seem interesting.

 

[ReefSafari]

Anyone have these? They don't seem to be that popular, but I don't know why....anyone ever kept them before? I think what I have is called a Palythoa tuberculosa, anyone think differently? Are they not commonly kept cause they are the ones that have the palythoa toxin?

EDIT: Upon trying to find more info on these, I actually think they might be Palythoa psammophila as they definatley are a green coloration and not brown.

 

[ReefSafari]

Actually I was just told by a very knowledgeable source that what I have is actually Palythoa caesia, I am stoked to have once, it will be fun to watch it grow.

 

[bychance]

That's pretty neat! I'm going to do some research on that.

 

[Ludwigia73]

If I'm not mistaken, we can collect those right off our beaches here in S FL, (or at least something very similar), and you can't give em away at the club meetings or fragswaps.