What is this on my zoa?

[austintw12]

Not sure if this is the right thread but what is this around my zoa? It has grown up from the base of the polyp and is starting to engulf the polyp

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Really hard to say from the pic, but maybe a colonial tunicate species or a bryozoan of some variety?

Some colonial tunicate examples can be seen below:

Haha, yeah sorry - that's part of why I threw in the TLDR at the bottom there. Here are some photos of colonial tunicates with similar body structure (and some with - from what I can tell - similar coloration) to help decide if it is a colonial tunicate:

(The two above images are from here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/11/977 )

And the link below has a bunch more pics (some are different colonial tunicates like above, some are solitary tunicates):

Ascideacea

Ascideacea

www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu