What kind of beautiful nightmare is this?

[beef1582]

Can anyone help identify this? It recently popped up in my tank and I have no idea. Can't find anything like it online, but to me it looks like some sort of polyp. I just can't get a good angle to see the base of it. Green with dark stripes from center, and little 'thorns' all over. I appreciate the help!

 

[Daddi0]

Looks like a little plate coral?
Cheers! Mark

 

[justjes45]

Can anyone help identify this? It recently popped up in my tank and I have no idea. Can't find anything like it online, but to me it looks like some sort of polyp. I just can't get a good angle to see the base of it. Green with dark stripes from center, and little 'thorns' all over. I appreciate the help!

Following along! Super neat!
I don't think aptisia?
Maybe small anemone?[emoji7]


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[beef1582]

Looks like a little plate coral?
Cheers! Mark

I thought that may be a possibility, it's fairly translucent under the flashlight. Thanks!

 

[Daddi0]

We had one grow on a rock. After a while it let loose of the rock and sank to the sandbed to live. Now there is a new tiny baby sprouting from the exact spot on the rock that the plate coral released from.

 

[beef1582]

We had one grow on a rock. After a while it let loose of the rock and sank to the sandbed to live. Now there is a new tiny baby sprouting from the exact spot on the rock that the plate coral released from.

That's interesting. I hope I'm there shortly after if that happens, otherwise my engineer will bury the little pup!

 

[Daddi0]

Here is a pic. of our plate and in the second pic. you can see a green spot where the new one is growing. After the coral popped off the rock, my son tossed it into his eel tank (hence all of the aiptasia). Looks like I am going to have to steal the rock from him