WEIRD growth, please help ID...it moves! Video & picture

[mmarti91]

After returning from a weeks vacation, I noticed this weird growth around a new Zoanthid frag I picked up about 3 weeks ago from the LFS. I have never seen anything like this and the weird thing is that it moved before I even touched it with my glass scraper. If you look at the right corner near the sand, you can see a hole that reminds me of a jet-propulsion seen on some marine organisms. Does anybody have any idea what this is?? Thanks!

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[mrbigshot]

looks like brown jelly disease. an immediate freshwater dip or series of dips and possibly fragging off the bad spots. if it it it can ekll fast or may not at all. sometimes they live for a day others they recover fully.

 

[mmarti91]

looks like brown jelly disease. an immediate freshwater dip or series of dips and possibly fragging off the bad spots. if it it it can ekll fast or may not at all. sometimes they live for a day others they recover fully.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure how this could be BJD as it is not slimy not filamentous. Did you watch the video? This thing reacts to touch and light just like a Zoa polyp would. But it has that weird hole near the sand that seems to squirt water when it contracts.

 

[donut0079]

Are you sure it's not some kind of sponge or tunicate.

 

[inthedeep2]

im thinking sponge.

 

[Jone]

dip in a Bayer dip..see if it detaches..look in the forum about how to do a Bayer dip..the best dip for pest IMO
If it doesnt detatch then gently inject some hot vinegar in a hypodermic needle into the growth,,in a separate container if you want it gone

 

[mmarti91]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll try the Bayer dip and see what happens!

 

[don_chuwish]

I wish we could get a better ID, that thing is cool looking!

 

[shred5]

Are you sure it's not some kind of sponge or tunicate.

With out a doubt it is a tunicate...
They are harmless.. They filter the water pumping it in one side and out the other.
They usually do not last long in a reef because our water is too clean..
They are very interesting animals.
Sometimes called a sea squirt.

 

[whitrose02]

Tunicate for sure. Fun little harmless hitch hiker.

 

[mmarti91]

Thanks for the helpful ID everybody! Glad I waited on the bayer dip :spin1: