there's a lot of things happening on the starfish and anemone rock!
A: these are actually on several rocks, but i keep forgetting to ask. pale, closed-ended tubes. what are they? they're stiff and don't sway much in the current. i don't think anything lives in them. the ends of some of them are becoming very thin and threadlike.
B: fuzzy green algae. it seems chill.
C: very new, they look like fronds or feathers.
D: slimy red algae. it seems gross.
E: hard, plate-like growth overtaking that sponge/bryozoan colony. maybe just the coralline algae growing?
F. a new sponge species seems to have popped up.
G: orange tunicate? it's been there since the start, slowly growing. i've never seen anything pop out, i think that is just the animal itself.
also, as you can see, we've got a brown filamentous algae thing going on. the same kind is on the glass, filter intake, heater, pipe... any surface. the copepod population is booming, hopefully they'll take care of it.
green clown goby
