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Hey guys, I picked up some live rock for my Nano that came with a few corals a fellow hobbies no longer wanted.
I personally added pulsing Xenia and Frogspawn. So far I can identify the green star polyps but that’s about it. Here are pics of all the corals in my aquarium.

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1. Green star polyps - Some like them. I see them as a very invasive nuisance coral - they can easily encrust over every square inch of available space.

2. Xenia. See comments above

3. RBTA - Rose bulb tip anemone. A very nice specimen. Generally recommended for well established systems with strong lighting. Can reproduce by splitting.

4. Probably a Hammer coral (Euphyllia sp.) medium flow, medium lighting. A nice LPS coral.

5. I'm gonna go with leather coral of one sort or another. Medium flow and lighting

6 & 7. Kenya Tree. Will readily shed branches and then over populate your system. You will find little branches everywhere. IME, pretty much any lighting, any flow. Seem to prefer "dirtier" water. I used them in one system's refugium to help clean it up when nitrates were wildly out of control. They will easily survive a trip through a DART return pump and therefore ended up everywhere.
 
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1. Green star polyps - Some like them. I see them as a very invasive nuisance coral - they can easily encrust over every square inch of available space.

2. Xenia. See comments above

3. RBTA - Rose bulb tip anemone. A very nice specimen. Generally recommended for well established systems with strong lighting. Can reproduce by splitting.

4. Probably a Hammer coral (Euphyllia sp.) medium flow, medium lighting. A nice LPS coral.

5. I'm gonna go with leather coral of one sort or another

6 & 7. Kenya Tree. Will readily shed branches and then over populate your system. You will find little branches everywhere.
It’s a good thing I enjoy aquarium maintenance. Looks like I’ll be doing quite a bit of grooming in the days to come! Thanks for the reply!
 

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Yep for one and two being gsp (Pachyclavularia sp.) and porbably xenia sp.
Next Euphyllia sp. - hardto tell if frogspawn, torch, or octo. Seems too small ends to be hammer. Might grow though.

Leathers are: probably Lobophytum for first (finger leather), Capnella sp. (tree coral, kenyan tree), last one possibly Nepthia sp or just Sinularia sp. (again called tree coral or kenyan tree).
 
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