Quote Originally Posted by rmalone View Post
Are you sure they aren't just different species, that grow ball form vs branching. Mine is ball form and while it eats plenty of pellets and flakes by default, I have never spot fed. In about 3yrs it's gone from 1 head to about 50(guestimate) and is a little bigger than a softball.
It's all speculation, I am pretty sure they were all the same species but this particular coral gets very little food as it is in a tank without fish.