ID this orange thing please

[meisel1]

I have had this bizzare orange thing growing on my green button polyp colony for a few weeks now and I really think I should get it identyfied before it gets any bigger and takes over the world....Any help or a positive id would be really welcome....cheers.

 

[bertoni]

I can't tell much from the picture. A sharp closeup might help. Might be a tunicate.

 

[meisel1]

Thats pretty much as close as i can get, and whats a tunicate

 

[hairymushroom]

I second tunicate , a tunicate is also known as a sea squirt and is harmless

 

[bertoni]

They are actually very interesting animals:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-03/rs/index.php

 

[rustybucket145]

If you could take your original pic and use a program to enlarge and crop the image you could post a better pic.

 

[meisel1]

thanks again bertoni, the article was very interesting and I will seek out even more info on this bizzare animal