Id and advice needed

[ELBee]

I got a lovely piece from a fellow ARCer (thanks @kmn2christ !) of some sort of favia (?) With purple clove polyps.

Is this a favia and if so, what kind?

Any advice on trimming/killing back some of the purple cloves so it has a better chance at actually growing? I have tons of purple cloves elsewhere in my tank, so hacking some off, if necessary, won't hurt my feelings.

 

[kmn2christ]

Looks like a blastomussa coral. I have an a Jan with the same purple polyp issue. They are prolific!! I use a razor and scrap the clove polyps away from the achan. The achan is finally gaining some ground


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[chaples55]

After you scrape it, you could also cover the area around the coral with super glue or epoxy so that the clove polyps don't regrow. That's how I deal with aiptasia that happens to come in on frags. My tank is 5 years old and still aiptasia free so I'd say it's effective

 

[kmn2christ]

Great idea!!


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[ELBee]

Fantastic! Thank you both!