Coral Growth on rock ID please

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Apotropaic

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Hi, anyone know what this is growing on my rock. It started out as a speck probably two years ago and is now gaining a green fluorescent tinge.

It's far more green than what the pictures show, also it moves with the water flow. If you look closely it is made up of tiny filaments.

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Could be a green fuzzy mushroom. When mine has babies, they are pretty translucent then get a small tinge of color , a bit tan, then green, spot or two of red, then they turn completely green.
 
Are your fuzzy mushrooms completely stuck to the rock or do they have a stalk and a head? What I have here appears to have no stalk and is all 'stuck' down on the live rock.
 
I have some Hydra52's coming this week, hopefully they will accelerate the growth and colouration a little, to make it easier to identify!!
 
Always been a bit worried about prodding it as I've been nurturing it!!
It's like encrustation so is hard, there's little filaments which give it a look as if it's soft and squidgy but it's so fine you can't really feel it.
 
If it's hard then it's not mushrooms. It must be some sort of LPS. A bleached one. The first one looks kinda like merulina with those ridges.
 
Thanks for your help, a few pics I've just googled do look similar. My new lights arrive this week so I'll keep an eye out over the next few weeks. Thanks again to everyone.
 
Thanks, I have my new lights but I haven't been able to get my mount up yet. So it hasn't changed much over the last few weeks.
Do we think it's entirely photosynthetic?
 
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