These are transparent orange balls with a white flower on top. They also look like an anemone when open, white dots on tips. I used a scalpel and popped them off, removes as a ball. They’re popping up around the scolys hard sides. Photos don’t show the white flower top.
Orange Transparent Balls
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Some sort of eggs, @ISpeakForTheSeas can probably help with an IDThese are transparent orange balls with a white flower on top. They also look like an anemone when open, white dots on tips. I used a scalpel and popped them off, removes as a ball. They’re popping up around the scolys hard sides. Photos don’t show the white flower top.
I can't tell from the pics, but the description sounds like a Ball Anemone/Corallimorph (taxonomic family Corallimorphidae). They're typically harmless, but sometimes they can reproduce quickly enough to be problematic.
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
Ball anemones are actually mushrooms (corallimorphs) and generally prefer shaded areas. Are these growing/opening in lighted parts of the tank?
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
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Need pics under white lights...They stretch out like an anemone while lights are on, but shaded from scoly. Pest anemone?
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
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They are still extremely blue. Maybe someone else can see them well enough to help. I still think ball anemone is the most likely ID.
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
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@ISpeakForTheSeas , could this be a small tunicate colony?
Hard to say for sure from the pics, but it does look like it may be some stalked tunicates.
Edit: OP, shining a flashlight on the thing may help with getting clearer, whiter pics.
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
Just another girl who likes fish
I'm still not sure, but regardless of what it is, it appears in the first pic that the coral is expelling mesenteric filaments to attack it... maybe.
