Wow! Branching Green Star Polyp!?!?

[Puff Daddy]

Sometimes in this hobby you discover something you never know existed, and it just makes you excited about what else may be out there. So I'm in California and was checking out some of the local fish stores and I found something unique.

This store appears to have a branching morph of the beautiful yet aggressive grower, the green star polyp. They say they have had the mother from their display tank for many years and do not know where it came from. It seems to be living harmoniously with SPS since it grows up rather than enveloping all flight surfaces in sight.

Here is a photo of some frags of it in there frag tank. It grows in stalks. Some tips look like they are curled over long tacos and could be hollow in side. Has anyone else ever heard of this?

 

[STiTCH87]

Are you positive it isn't just GSP growing on dead SPS skeletons? Or a form of branching briareum asbestinum?

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

Whatever it is, it looks great!

 

[Puff Daddy]

It grows like that by all itself. They don't place it around SPS skeletons.

 

[STiTCH87]

Super cool! Did you grab a frag by chance? Should grow it out and bring the species to New England!

 

[dz6t]

Very cool looking, great color too.

 

[wdebenedettojr]

Sweet looking. Always loved gsp but they just over grow a tank


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[this is me]

Sweetness.