Tiny Pink Blob Multiplying

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Hi! New to R2R and new hobbyist about 3 months in. Have a 29 gal Biocube and need some help identifying a pink blob we found on our glass last night that seems to have a mouth. As of this afternoon, it has split in two. Please see attached pics. (These are the best shots I could get with it on the glass an in the back corner.)

I typically am one to leave things be and ask questions at our weekly visit to the LFS, but am concerned that this thing is multiplying and, if harmful, could be something we should handle sooner than later. We have lots of live rock (with who knows what living in it), two tank raised snowflake clowns, one bubble tip anemone, six hermits, five snails, two turbos, one blenny, one cleaner shrimp.

I've looked in all kinds of forums and galleries to no avail. Any help and advice would be welcome!

PS. As an aside, this hobby is the coolest. We're having so much fun. The ocean is a pretty trippy place!

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Welcome to R2R! I'm not sure at all, but we have some people here that should be able to identify that.

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Hi! New to R2R and new hobbyist about 3 months in. Have a 29 gal Biocube and need some help identifying a pink blob we found on our glass last night that seems to have a mouth. As of this afternoon, it has split in two. Please see attached pics. (These are the best shots I could get with it on the glass an in the back corner.)

I typically am one to leave things be and ask questions at our weekly visit to the LFS, but am concerned that this thing is multiplying and, if harmful, could be something we should handle sooner than later. We have lots of live rock (with who knows what living in it), two tank raised snowflake clowns, one bubble tip anemone, six hermits, five snails, two turbos, one blenny, one cleaner shrimp.

I've looked in all kinds of forums and galleries to no avail. Any help and advice would be welcome!

PS. As an aside, this hobby is the coolest. We're having so much fun. The ocean is a pretty trippy place!

pink blob.jpg


pink blob split.jpg
Pseudocorynactis enjoy! Theres a handfull of people that dislike them, but i keep a collection in my sump!
 
Having read about each of the suggestions, I think @Sabellafella is closest... Overnight, one of them made it back to the rock it probably came from. I've been watching these little things in that rock for a while and thought at first it might be a frag that was starting to grow, but then I saw it react as a fish swam by, so I began to doubt the coral idea. Anyway, I had moved the rock to rubberband some algae to it to feed our blenny (not sure there's enough naturally-occuring greens to sustain him in our tank). Attached are pics of what I've observed in the rock. I haven't ever fed them (and maybe I shouldn't?) but this YouTube video (not mine) shows more closely what it looks like in the rock: .

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