Any idea what this is?

[Ddunn2466]

A while back I had this grow on my clove polyp colony, I have no idea what it is and haven’t been able to identify it. It’s not a great pic of it in the tank, but I removed it and got a better pic. Just curious if anyone has any ideas of what it is? It had the consistency similar to a jelly

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

@KJ. #reefsquad

Grand champion ID challenge.

 

[James M]

What the

 

[ndrwater]

I got nuthin.

 

[GoVols]

@KJ. #reefsquad

Grand champion ID challenge.

A chicken's liver.

You can catch a lot of catfish with chicken liver.

 

[NY_Caveman]

That’s nasty. No idea. It looks huge, like a human heart size. I hesitate to ask, does it move?

 

[GoVols]

A while back I had this grow on my clove polyp colony, I have no idea what it is and haven’t been able to identify it. It’s not a great pic of it in the tank, but I removed it and got a better pic. Just curious if anyone has any ideas of what it is? It had the consistency similar to a jelly

Clueless...

But... Welcome to Reef 2 Reef, and hope you feel at home!!

 

[kirstyflash]

It’s life Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it
There’s klingons on the starboard side starboard side starboard side

 

[Labridaedicted]

My initial gut instinct is a dying tunicate that has cyano on it. I don't know of any rhodophyta algae that has that appearance. Looks like a salp, but they're not sessile, they're free floating.

Interested to see what some of the other ID afficianados think.

 

[Cnidoblast]

Dead and rotting tunicate?

 

[KJ]

My initial gut instinct is a dying tunicate that has cyano on it. I don't know of any rhodophyta algae that has that appearance. Looks like a salp, but they're not sessile, they're free floating.

Interested to see what some of the other ID afficianados think.

Look like tunicate .

 

[Crabs McJones]

Nemastoma sp. ?

 

[Ddunn2466]

It never moved, it wasn’t there and it grew to that size in about 2-3 weeks. I thought it looked cool at first so I left it, but it slowly out competed the clove polyps. It was attached to the rock at the base

 

[Ddunn2466]

It definitely wasn’t dead, it was growing until the day I pulled it out. I wish I kept it, nobody ever knows what it is!

 

[KJ]

A while back I had this grow on my clove polyp colony, I have no idea what it is and haven’t been able to identify it. It’s not a great pic of it in the tank, but I removed it and got a better pic. Just curious if anyone has any ideas of what it is? It had the consistency similar to a jelly

Please, the next time you have something to ID , you need to leave or put it in a clear container filled with water,it is very hard to ID creatures like that on dry surface.

 

[Ddunn2466]

Please, the next time you have something to ID , you need to leave or put it in a clear container filled with water,it is very hard to ID creatures like that on dry surface.

Ya I definitely should have, it was a while ago. I didn’t think of that in the moment, but over time curiosity is getting the best of me.

 

[KJ]

Ya I definitely should have, it was a while ago. I didn’t think of that in the moment, but over time curiosity is getting the best of me.

Understand

 

[cristata.reef]

It's a rhodophyte. One of the species in the Predaea genus