Help identify new growth

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I have a 60 gallon reef tank that's been set up about 2 1/2 years. I just got all my water parameters stable and good and with that I started getting this new growth. It's kind of jelly like, has no oral plate and does not appear to have any structure to it. Originally tought it might be bubble coral but the orange color eliminated that. Thought about sponges but it doesn't appear to be porious or tubebuelar so now am looking at macro algae to see if I can identify. Any help?
 
Really really hard to tell from that pic.
Have you looked up Red Bubble Algae? Thats what Im guessing.
 
Thank you for responding. I have researched bubble algae and from what I have read and seen this is different. Bubble algae appear to be uniform on size and shape where this appears to be non semetrical. My biggist one of these is 2 inches long by 1 plus inches wide by about 1 inch tall. Very unsemetrical. It glows a fluorescent orange under my blue actinic lights. It's actually very neat and would like to keep it if it's not invasive and something that will overtake the tank or hurt the coral I do have which just consists of some mushroom coral and some zonathids.i have at least 10 of these growing now and will try to post better pictures of them.
 

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