Strange Blue Ball

[Anthony Calfo]

not sure if this helps, my friend:

http://perso.orange.fr/sulawesi.biologie.sous-marine/VEGETAUX/previewpages/previewpage10.html

do browse the pics at www.algaebase.org for more candidates (inside and out of Valoniaceae)

 

[thriceanangel]

I wouldn't mind bubble algae if it looked like that! That's pretty cool!

 

[A. Iosue]

Thanks for your replay and link Anthony, and thanks for the rest of you.

The Valonia I have had in my aquariums looks like grapes, they are green and very shiny, somethimes with a brown-dark red over them but never seen so big as this blue thing. They were ever patched in live rocks and never was attractive to crabs. I want to say too, that is a little hard to take them out of the rock.
In the link you can see the Valonia looks as shiny as a grape and under the picture I can read the following translated from french:

ressemble à du marbre vert avec une lueur réfléchissante lumineuse....

resemble green marble with a luminous reflective gleam...

It is too big for an egg, layed from species I have,,,,, I haven´t seen birds inside the aquarium,,, just kidding, only a big Condylactis gigantea, but I don´t believe this thing came from the anemone and from ´´Star Trek´´, as someone thinks, either.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[jamiehag]

Do you have an anemone in the tank and maybe a blue starfish you can't find? I had a orange ball just like that appear in my tank and after some searching and dissecting of the ball I discovered that it was my orange star. I came to the conclusion that it must of fallen off a rock above my anemone and was partially digested then spit back out hence looking like a slime ball. Just a thought for you

 

[kolokefalo]

ok I am just spitballing here however here is my theory:

I think it is a new planet from an alternate dimension. In time it will grow. The micro-people inhabiting this pan-dimensional world will demonstrate technology far beyond the boundaries of our understanding of physics. Years later, groups will arise preaching about the coming doom from these people who have now infiltrated every part of our lives.

Many will call these humans "conspiracy theorists" and "tin-foil heads". Michael Moore will make a movie documenting their Nirvana like alien culture and how much it resembles communism and hail them the greatest "race" ever. The movie will also go on in detail to say how by mixing with humans we have corrupted their very essence and purity. The movie will be called "Failed Utopia"

Even later as more hatred towards these beings grows, radical elements of the KKK will display a new standard of a large boot squashing their tiny home planet which still resides in your aquarium. However, now your home is under 24 hour Secret Service protection and you can't even have a friend over without a proper security screening of the friend in question. Your life has become a prison sentence. You can not leave your home, and must monitor your water parameters due to an entire race's existence relying on you.

Finally, you will be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for being a "hostile combatant" when someone overheard you say in public, "I should have just flushed the damn thing down the toilet 6 years ago".

Save yourself the trouble my friend, remove it immediately NOW before it is too late for you.

(I was going to have an alternate ending of Randy Holmes Farley saving the day by injecting it with Joe's juice at the zero hour)

peace

 

[Cantonesefish]

... ok

 

[Telal]

I've seen those floating around Banderas Bay, MX. Calfo is right they're a type of algae.

 

[A. Iosue]

What an amazing theory you got my friend!!!!, new planets, new dimensions, very weird!!! I just send it to Scientific American and Stephen Hawking too. Perhaps they will help you being nominated for a Nobel Prize!

P. S. Keep the salt water inside the tank and doesn’t drink it.

 

[A. Iosue]

Telal, I suppose something like that too. I was born in front of the same sea I get live rocks, anemones and other things, I dive in these islands and beaches since I remember but never seen something like I placed in this thread, that’s why I want to know if someone can identify this stuff.

 

[davidryder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10359095#post10359095 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by A. Iosue
Telal, I suppose something like that too. I was born in front of the same sea I get live rocks, anemones and other things, I dive in these islands and beaches since I remember but never seen something like I placed in this thread, that’s why I want to know if someone can identify this stuff.

You were born in front of the sea? What does that mean?

 

[GMAX]

Cut the guy some slack, he is from Venezuela so English is not his native tongue, comprende?

 

[A. Iosue]

Where is the tree in front of your house? .....in your basement!

I see that this is an Advanced Topic forum for politicians too. As them, when they does not have arguments for a topic, any ..... thing can fill the emptiness.

 

[davidryder]

Welcome to ReefCentral. I just didn't understand what you meant - if that is what you are referring to as political. Also, ReefCentral is a fun place to hang out at and talk about reef tanks and such. Sorry we couldn't help you enough though. Don't give up on us yet.