Shroom sponge?
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translucent,do they open and close or just remain same?
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i think wait on dissecting for the moment,let's find out what it is first
that's right, he can nuke the system if it's something bad, think about how many stuff you know, which touching them (disturbing, cutting etc) can bring your crash
I’m stumped!
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Remain the same.
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Meeee toooo.
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Sooooo wishing I had a microscope, right now.
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No not dissect in the tank, cut one off and remove from water immediately. Clearly whatever it is it is invasive so will have to be removed anyways as I guarantee the pipe will not be having it at some point 
If you do pop one off check for any internal structure. If sponge should have holey tissue throughout. If algae or less likely tunicate you'll see it is hollow or mostly hollow.
btw if they are trying to reach light, which is what I see from the pics, then they're photosynthetic and I personally have never heard of a little gray colonial photosynthetic sponge. And looking at the pics I think they would popular for the aquarium keeper. So this means they're bad... And so...
At this point I'm voting invasive macro of some type, probably caulerpa
If you do pop one off check for any internal structure. If sponge should have holey tissue throughout. If algae or less likely tunicate you'll see it is hollow or mostly hollow.
btw if they are trying to reach light, which is what I see from the pics, then they're photosynthetic and I personally have never heard of a little gray colonial photosynthetic sponge. And looking at the pics I think they would popular for the aquarium keeper. So this means they're bad... And so...
At this point I'm voting invasive macro of some type, probably caulerpa
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It appears to be a variaty of Botryocladia Skottsbergii algae. I have had red, green and blue varieties in my tank, or maybe all the same variety but at different phases in it's lifecycle.
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Hmmmm. Pulling one and gonna dissect tomorrow.
Do it sooner when you can please, we are curious to see what's it. BTW can you disturb a little bit the pipe organ with turkey and to get another photo of it Please, I mean to see where and how exactly they are attached to the coral, and is it something like a base or stem they are coming out Please.
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Man, that's a head scratcher! Other than the color it looks very similar to a weird bubble algae I had in one of my observation tanks.
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On the list of things to do today. We are a mere 9 or so hours from finding out.
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If ist an algae, I'm gonna taste it. If it's a shroom, garlic butter white wine reduction over some pasta with that fine chianti.
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Bwaaaaaahahahaha.... Caulerpa Racemosa. @MERKEY @Mr_Knightley , and @Fishy65 nailed it! Good job guys and thanks for all the input. Man, I feel like a putz.;Blackeye The taste was not off-putting btw.
@MERKEY @Mr_Knightley , and @Fishy65 nailed it! Good job guys and thanks for all the input. Man, I feel like a putz.;Blackeye The taste was not off-putting btw.
