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Can someone help me identify these palys?

I ordered some pulsing Xenia from an out of state vendor and my shipment arrived yesterday. The packaging was excellent and shipping was fast. There was also a bonus mushroom included as a free gift, which is awesome (last picture). However, one of the Xenia frags also had an extra on it. I didn’t figure out it was palys until after everything had been dipped, rinsed, and added to my observation tank. I’ll plan to separate the palys and Xenia after they’ve all had a week to stabilize in the tank. Thank you to TiA Corals, in Deerpark, NY, for the awesome online experience!

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Hello all, new to all this coral keeping but i noticed right in the middle of my rock on the base of mush mushroom coral is a little round reddish aomething, is this a new mushroom growing?

Cheers in advance

Lee

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I found a very well camouflage hitch hiker in my xenia!

Apparently they are called xenia crabs (not gonna lie I really did not saw it until i really took a closer look to inspect my xenia for damges and noticed some stalks that does'nt have some fingers and was like whoa why is that stalk moving sideways!!)

They have a very cool symbiotic relationship on a xenia, they eat xenia while they also protect xenia!

Will this help me control xenia's weed-like nature that spread quickly or will i need to find him a friend?

Look at 2nd pic and have fun finding him 🤣

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