Unidentified Orange Thingy

ViciousDlishus · Mar 26, 2018

Brought in a sun coral which had some of these in the bag. Dipped and thought I got them all. Just started poking around my qt and found these. Any ideas? I dipped a rock with three of them. Blasted with a turkey baster and they didn't seem to move.

DSC reef · Mar 27, 2018

Possibly a sponge or a type of algae? @KJ @Lovemyreef2015 #reefsquad

Jason mack · Mar 27, 2018

I would say sponge too !

Lovemyreef2015 · Mar 27, 2018

I'd say Sponge

Sipec · Mar 27, 2018

+1 sponge

Sea MunnKey · Mar 27, 2018

It looks very much like some form of baby Sun Corals/Dendrophyllias ....yellow exterior skin, dark orange in the mouth/center area

Especially the protruding sideview of the "sun coral" from the hand held Torch coral picture ... just my observation

Sipec · Mar 27, 2018

Sea MunnKey said:
It looks very much like some form of baby Sun Corals/Dendrophyllias ....yellow exterior skin, dark orange in the mouth/center area

Especially the protruding sideview of the "sun coral" from the hand held Torch coral picture ... just my observation

When you look closely it does look like a polyp...

Sipec · Mar 27, 2018

https://goo.gl/images/DHHnh5
Yup, upon further research it looks like a suncoral polyp

tupes · Mar 27, 2018

I'm going with sea munnkey on this one. It does look like a baby suncoral when zoomed in.

Sea MunnKey said:
It looks very much like some form of baby Sun Corals/Dendrophyllias ....yellow exterior skin, dark orange in the mouth/center area

Especially the protruding sideview of the "sun coral" from the hand held Torch coral picture ... just my observation

Lasse · Mar 27, 2018

Around 10 years ago - I got a small pieces of living rocks with a small yellow spot like these. After a while i had a fully developed sun coral - I could be the same. I had this in a small aquaria with a filter sponge. What I did was to squeeze this in the tank every evening.

Sincerely Lasse