Multiple IDs

[Adamw327]

Hello and thanks for stopping in! :wavehand:


Please help me ID these guys

Red plate algae (coralline?)

Bubble looking red algae on the right

Really hard to see florescent orange branch dead center

A better picture, i have another growth, about 3x the size but its on the backside of a rock and can't get a good picture


These all came in from Florida LR if that helps!

Thank you so much!

 

[Adamw327]

Also, the orange branch glows under a black light, like REALLY glows

 

[gnu]

The red bubble is botryocladia. It's a fairly slow grower, but pretty easy to care for. It grows just as well in my sump as in my DT.

The branchy one...I'm not sure. Any way to get a clearer picture?

 

[Adamw327]

I can try tonight but its a smooth branch if that helps

 

[Adamw327]

The branch is now gone, but the red plate like stuff is still going, it seems to love overtaking halimida branches. Still cant find IDs, have even more stuff popping up now that i cant ID

 

[gnu]

There's a website called Salt Corner that has some great macro pics and information, they should be able to help you ID most of your stuff. I think you look under their library/articles section.

I'm only guessing, but the red plate looks like a type of coraline. Whatever it is, you got some pretty cool stuff on those rocks!

 

[Adamw327]

Have some more for you all, i have read threw the website and stickies here but no luck on anything so far except the botryocladia

I swear this thing was moving freely, but it was see-thro... so it was probably the current, figured id post it and give it a shot, have not seen it since

Little green disks on stalks, VERY small, the tubeworm in the picture is only 1.5" or so

Not sure if this thing is dead, being taken over by coralline, or regaining its color. It was on the underside of LR i turned around trying to catch my mantis

Another red, with a cool looking worm/barnacle thing to the right, not visible to my eyes,

 

[gnu]

The orange see through guy is a tunicate, it's a filter feeder. The little green ball is bubble algae, bit of a nuisance. And the last photo looks like a type of halymenia. The others I'm not quite sure on.

 

[Adamw327]

The orange see through guy is a tunicate, it's a filter feeder. The little green ball is bubble algae, bit of a nuisance. And the last photo looks like a type of halymenia. The others I'm not quite sure on.

Thanks!

I did have some black bubble algae on some LR when i first bought it but i removed it all (or so i thought, found one more, gone now) But i never saw any green, and i never spotted that little bubble again, was hoping it was another crazy species i have never heard of that does amazing things like all these other things

Did some research on Tunicates, and have questions, but this is the wrong forum right?

I also discovered one of the bright orange fuzzy things i thought was an encrusting sponge is also a colony of these tunicate things... learn something new...10x everyday

 

[gnu]

I treat my tunicates much like my sponges, and feed phyto, bbs, ova, or any other type of filter feeder food...they may not make it long term, tunicates are a bit finicky, but good luck! Check on the invert forum and see if anyone with more experience can steer you in the right direction