Odd blobs on base of a hammer

[Eldritch_blast]

Anyone know what these/these are? Not sure how quickly they formed just noticed last night. Can’t have been more than a week or so.

 

[MaxTremors]

Do they move?

 

[Spare time]

Looks like a vermatid. If so, crush them (ideally with bone cutters or something). They are a nuisance imo

 

[Goaway]

Anyone know what these/these are? Not sure how quickly they formed just noticed last night. Can’t have been more than a week or so

Curious as well, does it move? If not, it could be a plating algae.

 

[Eldritch_blast]

Do they move?

I haven’t noticed them moving.

Looks like a vermatid. If so, crush them (ideally with bone cutters or something). They are a nuisance imo

The blobs that almost appear like they are stacked?

i have a few more pics

 

[Eldritch_blast]

Picture is not the greatest, but it seems to be about the same appearance during the day.
It does look like some type of bubble algae or plating algae maybe.
Going to dig up a bit about that when I get done down time running through a busy Sunday task list currently but this doesn’t appear to be any type of emergency. Thanks so far the input

 

[MERKEY]

@Spare time is correct in the ID

Vermatids

 

[Eldritch_blast]

@Spare time is correct in the ID

Vermatids

Aren’t the vermetids the small while spirally guys?

Or is the ID for the big purple blobs a Vermetid? That’s not what I thought they were.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Aren’t the vermetids the small while spirally guys?

Or is the ID for the big purple blobs a Vermetid? That’s not what I thought they were.

There are ones with white tubes and ones with larger brown tubes. Even ones with black tubes that looks like black chrome.

best to put some super glue over them and kill them. If you do crush, do it out of the tank, rinse in some old tank water in a cup, apply some h2o2 via a qtip or small make up brush to the skeleton (avoid the polyps of the coral) let sit a minute or 2 and then rinse in another cup of old tank water. The h2o2 “busts” and gametes that came out when crushing and helps to prevent them spreading due to asexual reproduction.

 

[Eldritch_blast]

There are ones with white tubes and ones with larger brown tubes. Even ones with black tubes that looks like black chrome.

best to put some super glue over them and kill them. If you do crush, do it out of the tank, rinse in some old tank water in a cup, apply some h2o2 via a qtip or small make up brush to the skeleton (avoid the polyps of the coral) let sit a minute or 2 and then rinse in another cup of old tank water. The h2o2 “busts” and gametes that came out when crushing and helps to prevent them spreading due to asexual reproduction.

But I’m not here asking about them. I have lots of them, not typically this bad but I’m looking for help in another area.

I’m asking about the brown blobs are they tough to see? Do you know what those are?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

But I’m not here asking about them. I have lots of them, not typically this bad but I’m looking for help in another area.

I’m asking about the brown blobs are they tough to see? Do you know what those are?

I am referring to the “brown blobs”. Vermatid build a structure like that. Almost like a spiral weld of calcium deposits aka shell.

From your pics, looks like a vermatid.

 

[Eldritch_blast]

I am referring to the “brown blobs”. Vermatid build a structure like that. Almost like a spiral weld of calcium deposits aka shell.

From your pics, looks like a vermatid.

Most excellent, thank you for the clarification!