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BibleSue

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Well, I have checked with some of my "know it all" buddies & we are stumped. Any ideas on the clear oval stuff. Note there are 3 on a polyp in the upper left. Also note the strange growth with light markings growing at the base of the polyps to the right. I recently got this rock. I think it may have been wild caught.

 

Out of the water

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In the water w/lights on

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Lights off

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I squnched up when offered mysis tonight. Any ideas?

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The tan brownish thing looks to be a type of tunicate. I would say the others may be too and I've had them come in on a frag ....they died off.

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Thanks! We were just about to come to that conclusion. lakshwadeep gave me a link. None of the other trunticates I have had were like either of these.

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BKtomodachi

I think those are what you would call colonial tunicates. Usually they don't show up in our tanks, partly due to a decreased biodiversity. They are pretty cool!

 

As for the clear white "blobs", what kind of texture do they have? I suppose they could me gastropod eggs of some sort.

They almost seem to have a lateral line, though. So like a see-through chiton or something? I don't know, very odd.

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I think those are what you would call colonial tunicates. Usually they don't show up in our tanks, partly due to a decreased biodiversity. They are pretty cool!

 

As for the clear white "blobs", what kind of texture do they have? I suppose they could me gastropod eggs of some sort.

They almost seem to have a lateral line, though. So like a see-through chiton or something? I don't know, very odd.

 

 

The white blobs are like very thin skinned water blisters. It doesn't take much to pop them. I removed what I could find just in cast they were bad guys. I will research chitons. Thanks for the info.

 

The other has to be a trunicate. It seems to be attached to the polyps. We'll see what comes of it! It is pretty.

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When I first saw the clear bubbles, I thought FW snail eggs. I used to pick them off the Elodea in my tank when I was a kid. Other than that, I don't know.

 

dsoz

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It's a few colonies of "colonial tunicates". I've seen those exact species personally many times, and usually they stay the same size and eventually shrink away, but sometimes they grow all cool-like. Harmless filter-feeder.

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