What the. Heck is this?????

Rob&Gab · Apr 10, 2014

just make sure its not some type of Eggs, cause your screwed if those hatch. your gonna have a million aliens swimming in your tank.

Tagging along for a ID.

kovfunk22 · Apr 10, 2014

I have some zoas that the mat part sort of looks like this only not orange. Same pattern though

turbo21 · Apr 10, 2014

Rob&Gab said:
just make sure its not some type of Eggs, cause your screwed if those hatch. your gonna have a million aliens swimming in your tank.

Tagging along for a ID.

After dipping it went into my frag tank that isn't connected to the main system so I can keep an eye on it

The last thing I need is for them to hatch and come crawl in my ear lol

Mr. Microscope · Apr 10, 2014

Does it move? Looks like some sort of polyclad flatworm to me.

turbo21 · Apr 10, 2014

Mr. Microscope said:
Does it move? Looks like some sort of polyclad flatworm to me.

No it does not move

TCatlin · Apr 10, 2014

Again +1 on aliens the orange stripes are it's spawn awaiting birth to invade your tank as soon as they have reached full gestation, feed it some human blood or let it feed on your sps for a few days voila invasion complete

Naiad · Apr 10, 2014

+1 on colonial tunicate. They have all kinds of amazing colors and patterns. remember the specimen you have is in very poor condition having been dipped, exposed to air, and not treated with the kind of care tunicates need. Each of those orange lines represent an "individual" tunicate that has become part of the colony. It is kind of like how cells combine to form organs.

CRW Reefer · Apr 10, 2014

Yep colonial tunicaye for sure. Just saw one recently just like that on a rock here in Denver

elizzy824 · Apr 10, 2014

DragKnee said:

This whole thread made me lol. Hope you figure out what it is, however. I have never seen it, but I think it's awesome!

specvjeff · Apr 11, 2014

I have seen this before. It is a tunicate. I would manually remove it as it will grow over the Palys.

kaidokae · Apr 11, 2014

I wouldn't worry about them growing over your zoas. I have had these in my tank before, they must not like the light very much because there was a big patch of them on the underside of one of my rocks. I noticed them when I was redoing my rocks and tried to get them into a position where you could see them in the tank, they didn't last very long after that. My guess was they don't like the light which makes sense if they were on the underside of your rock as well.

FLipp · Apr 11, 2014

what the heck! lol.

evolved · Apr 11, 2014

Tiger Tunicates

turbo21 · Apr 11, 2014

kaidokae said:
I wouldn't worry about them growing over your zoas. I have had these in my tank before, they must not like the light very much because there was a big patch of them on the underside of one of my rocks. I noticed them when I was redoing my rocks and tried to get them into a position where you could see them in the tank, they didn't last very long after that. My guess was they don't like the light which makes sense if they were on the underside of your rock as well.

They will definitely grow over the zoas and have already started to.

DunkCityReefer · Apr 11, 2014

+1 on the tunicate

WVUreefer · Apr 11, 2014

Might wanna check out Aquaworld...noticed last Friday they had a whole colony for sale...

IPisces · Apr 12, 2014

reefbrucie said:
hi there is it stationary. Why i ask is that one evening when feeding my fish i often give a bit of lance fish to my red star fish. He was happily manuvering the piece of fish when this pink jelly "thing" came out from under a rock and climbed on to the star to get at the lance fish. The red star dropped the fish and couldn't get out the way quick enough. He wasn't happy. The jelly slid back under the rock. It was creepy. I only saw it for a few seconds but it was very flat and pink. No obvious head etc. But your pic put me in mind of it.
Bruce

ROFL!!!!!