What the heck are these?

[OneMerissa]

Any help would be greatly appreciated! What are these critters?

 

[KING KONG]

Any help would be greatly appreciated! What are these critters?

Sorry Not sure but can be Asterina? Don't trust my comment as I can't see photo clearly

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Look like tunicates
@ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[vetteguy53081]

Any help would be greatly appreciated! What are these critters?

Pics are fuzzy to clearly see but may be coral skeleton

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Look like tunicates
@ISpeakForTheSeas

Agreed - colonial tunicates:

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

That’s a colonial tunicate species - harmless filter feeders, but some species can be pretty invasive, so I’d try to keep it isolated.