Please help identify!!!

[Saltwaterhippy]

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I bought some mushrooms and didn't realize that they were attached to a live thing not just a rock. Please help identify!

 

[tektite]

Those look like the vents to a jewel box clam

 

[LeLutinBanni]

The mushes are rhodactis

 

[Saltwaterhippy]

What are the mushrooms attached to? It has a mouth and when you look inside it has what looks like teeth. And is soft on the outside.

 

[SushiGirl]

If it's soft I'd guess it's a really large tunicate.

 

[tektite]

Ah, if its soft its a rather large tunicate

 

[mtcoins123]

google monkey sea squirts

 

[Saltwaterhippy]

It not the orange thing on the side. It's the thing with the two holes in the front. I'll try and get a good pic of the inside of the mouth.

 

[SushiGirl]

I wasn't referring o the orange thing on the side. Single tunicates have an intake & an output hole for bringing in water to filter & expelling it.

 

[Saltwaterhippy]

 

[mtcoins123]

it's a tunicate but not a monkey squirt ... most tuinicates are pretty much the same

 

[tektite]

Sea squirts are tunicates, just a different name.

 

[Saltwaterhippy]

O. I looked at tunicates and they all look colorful. So are they a good thing to have?

 

[SushiGirl]

They're not harmful. Usually hard to keep alive if your tank is too "clean" in terms of nutrients & suspended particles.