What is this?

[seth16]

This is in Dans tank, and he is not curious to find out what it is, but i am. He found it underneat a chunk of live-rock, and it was only about 1cm all around, now it is huge.......does anyone have any idea what this is?

 

[cschweitzer]

Seriously looks like an angler fish from the picture, but since it was a hitchhiker, I highly doubt that.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=74


Probably a tunicate or sponge...

 

[Me No Nemo]

Hard to tell from the pic, but like Craig said, if it was under a rock probably sponge or it almost looks like a type of macro? How long was it under the rock?

 

[waterfaller1]

Sponge.

 

[seth16]

for a couple months, then he took it out and let it have light.

 

[seth16]

hey marcye, your inbox was full..... just to let u no...lol

 

[Me No Nemo]

Thanks, I cleaned it out.

 

[chrisstie]

That looks like the thing on the back side of sitcs LPS tank that is being held for someone to me. I forget what its called

 

[Me No Nemo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9156945#post9156945 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisstie
That looks like the thing on the back side of sitcs LPS tank that is being held for someone to me. I forget what its called

Wow, Crisstie, can you translate that? :eek1:

 

[seth16]

hahaha, i was thinking the same thing

 

[smpolyp]

If I'm looking at the right object. I would say from the blue/cream color it is close to a Dictyota(a brown type of algae). The blade shape makes me want to say more of a Halymenia( sp. duchassaignii) A discription would be: Fleshy and wide ,with irregular lobes. With upward teeth and a rubbery texture.
Still hard to say from the pic.

 

[seth16]

It is not fleshy at all, it feel slike a dried leaf... it has any layers, and is BARELY connected to the rock, we never moved it from its original place, but it still looks about to like ...fall off. It has a blueish color, but is also black, red, and green in some areas. here is another pic:

 

[smpolyp]

Hard and like leather? Then maybe a Sargassum. Other than a better look a type of algea.

 

[seth16]

well, the leaves or whatever are pliable, but not not like ones of a frogspawn or something, i dont know how to explain it..... DAN, I KNOW YOU ARE SECRETLY READING THIS POST, "YOU" SAY WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT, I AM TRYING TO DESCRIBE "YOUR" CORAL....LOL

 

[chrisstie]

To translate from my late night attempt at communication..

The thing in the picture - it looks like something in the LPS tank at sea in the city. It is flat and wavy like the pic and there is a circle on the glass that says "being held for soandso"

It is on the softie side of the LPS tank. I can't recall what it is called.

 

[cschweitzer]

I was about to say, from the new picture, looks like a cabbage leather

 

[ryanhayes96]

its got like te same structure and look as a cabbage leather just like mostly dark purple and littles bits of red. i could bringit to the next frag auction if you guys want so you an see?

 

[ryanhayes96]

btw i found it on the rock from petco that my mushrooms were on. it was like 1/2 an inc but now its over 2 1/2 inches when i brought it into the light