Surprise, free soft corals

[Paul B]

As I was looking at my algae trough tonight I noticed a bunch of hair algae in there which is what I want, but I also noticed about 2 dozen polyps.
They are soft, I thought they would be hard because they look like little 3/8" buttons but I touched them and they are soft. They are at the beginning of the trough where they get the most turbulence but the lease amount of light.
I don't yet know what they are but when I get time I will have to turn off the skimmer to stop the water flow so I can see them better and take some pictures. I have never seen these before but it seems that I get this a lot, things popping up from no where.
I can't tell if they are tropical or something from local NY waters.

 

[The_Codfather]

Hey Paul...Yeah it is cool when a good thing pops up out of nowhere.. can you take a pic?

 

[Paul B]

I can take some pics but I need a little time to shut down the skimmer and get some ambition. They are small so I need to get in there with a macro and it is a tight space. Also, no algae grows near these polyps.

 

[Paul B]

Here are some of the little suckers in my algae trough