Clear alien looking thing...?

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I started the tank 6 months ago using LR. A few days ago I noticed clear tentacles poking out from the side of the rock. Curious to know what it could be, we poked it with the coral feeding tube and it didn't retract. I looked it up online and the only thing I could find is possibly clear aipstaisia, however, it doesn't retract like aipstaisia does and whatever it is, has been there for 6 months and hasn't spread (that I noticed yet). What has been introduced into the tank in the last 6 months you ask? Let me tell you... Last thing to enter was end of Feb, was 2 corals which were dipped, scrubbed and quarantined in a QT for 6 weeks (that's right, had a Brook problem in the past, ain't doing that again..) Prior to that was 2 crabs in November... No new fish since the new year (other then some fw mollies that I converted to sw in January..)

I tried to get photos but it's really blurry... I can try and get better ones if it can help :) I was just wondering if anyone ever seen something like that or know if aipstaisia doesn't retract sometimes and it's clear... like no color at all (which makes it hard to photograph in the water)
 
Does it look like this? Pretty hard to see but I have something like this and I can’t id it

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That looks like a ball tipped anemone, this doesn't have the balls on the end.. let me try and get a better photo
 
Here's 2 pics, I used one phone to shine a light and another to take the image... it did retract a little bit in the light but not completely...

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Yeah that's the thing. Ok I'll look it up. I did have a hitchhiking sponge at one point and knocked it off the rock when cleaning and it died.... Their good right?
 
THANK YOU!!!

I looked up the common sponges, it is a sponge!!! I don't see the spongy part it's tucked into the rock but the tentacle thing coming out opens up just like the ones in the pic! Thanks!!! I was soo worried! I dip and qt corals for 6 weeks so I don't get aiptasia or anything else and was trippin when I saw this in there! Phew!


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If it's this it looks like a regular hitchhiking sponge.
 

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