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dugthefish
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Hard to tell from the picture but do you have any wrasse? If you have one that sleeps in the rockwork it could be part of its nightly mucous caccoon.
If you don't it might be the remnants of a sea squirt or sponge that's been knocked from your rocks.
If you don't it might be the remnants of a sea squirt or sponge that's been knocked from your rocks.
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dugthefish
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Nope, no wrasses. Tank is only 2 months old, added first fish and frags a few weeks ago. Started with mostly dry rock with a few pounds from a dismantled tank.
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dugthefish
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Just standard pellets and frozen. I poked it a little, kinda looks like the red spots are food pellets.
It could be a sponge. I have several growing that look just like it. Start out grey but then develop a nice purple color.
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Noticed last week, shortly after moving some frags around, thought it was just some slime that had settled. Looks kinda like the blob or a Gelatinous Cube. About the size of a dime.
Looks like rotting food pellets to me.
Well, if it is food pellets that were caught under frags, it could very well be a bacteria blob. Does it slime apart real easily? Is it having a negative impact on anything?
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dugthefish
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No apparent negatives, does not seem to produce any slime, but is slime like. I can move and stretch it, but always comes back together, no loose pieces.
My money is on it being a sponge. The dark areas of my overflow and sump have lots of them and they start out looking just like your picture. The ones in the darkest areas remain grey but the ones that get a little light turn purple. I have yet to transfer any into the DT to see what colors they become under full light. If there is no negative impacts from it you might what to give it a few days to see what it does. Please post the results to let us know.
Looking at the picture, there are a lot of pellets in the mass. I'm sticking with bacterial and would remove it as it seems to be the pellets decaying. Sponges never incased any food from my experience.
This is true too. But when my sponges colored up it started with a few individual spots like the OP's picture. I'm no expert nor am I saying that it is definitely a sponge, just another possibility. That's why I would like to see another picture in a few days.
Mea Culpa, I just went back and reread the part about the tank being only 2 months old and mostly dry rock. Unless you had a sponge come in on the bottom of one of the frags, it's not likely to be a sponge. But that is a possibility. Dang, it sure does look exactly like what I encountered with mine.
My guess is sponge.
My plating purple feels like rubber , my yellow encrusting feel like sponge , the black ones in zoas feel like thick wet compacted sawdust , pineapple sponges feel like crunchy sponge.
My plating purple feels like rubber , my yellow encrusting feel like sponge , the black ones in zoas feel like thick wet compacted sawdust , pineapple sponges feel like crunchy sponge.
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dugthefish
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Does not appear to be mobile. I finally remembered, the best approximation of what it feels like is Goop. Remember that stuff, 80s kids?
