What is this?

[DraggingTail]

If you look between the branches of this dead coral, there is something that looks like red flower petals.

Any ideas?

It moves around with the current but holds it's structure

 

[ndrwater]

Any way if getting g a closer pic? Maybe a macro? Even zooming in I am having a hard time making out details

 

[DraggingTail]

Any way if getting g a closer pic? Maybe a macro? Even zooming in I am having a hard time making out details

Try this.

You can see the bottom pedal flutter a couple times. It's about the size of a pencil eraser.

 

[ndrwater]

Almost looks like a red bubble algae. I attribute the flutter to flow. I noticed similar movement in the surrounding areas of the dpcoral skeleton.
But, just to get a few more eyes on this... #reefsquad

 

[DraggingTail]

Almost looks like a red bubble algae. I attribute the flutter to flow. I noticed similar movement in the surrounding areas of the dpcoral skeleton.
But, just to get a few more eyes on this... #reefsquad

Yes. It is not moving on it's own. Flow is moving it. The petals are flat like a flower.

 

[saltyhog]

Agree with @ndrwater , looks like a species of bubble algae I have on one of my at tanks.

 

[DraggingTail]

Agree with @ndrwater , looks like a species of bubble algae I have on one of my at tanks.

Do they get big?

 

[DraggingTail]

Agree with @ndrwater , looks like a species of bubble algae I have on one of my at tanks.

I just looked that up. It's not a bubble or bubbles. They are flat petals. I touched it.

 

[ndrwater]

Bubble algae doesn't necessarily have to be a round bubble. Either way, it looks to be a type of macro algae

 

[DraggingTail]

Red Dragons Breath. Must have been on something from LFS

 

[Dancingmad]

Red Dragons Breath

I agree - I've kept dragonsbreath for over a year now - sort of. Lil sprouts just like that form in my tank in high flow areas (Overflow baffles, powerheads, top of the aquascape). Some herbies in the tank love it - they chow down on it pretty quickly, but I always see it reemerge from time to time. Here is a picture of exactly what I'm talking about to help confirm!

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Any chance for a macro lens? Shape and growth pattern looks wrong to be a species of Halymenia.