What is this growing in my tank?

jdoenumber2 · 09/17/2006, 08:34 PM

It looks like a carnation and is purple with red all around the edges. It jus poped up out of the blue on my HOB filter discharge area. I cant find anything that looks like this. Im just looking for any ideas that i can look in to. Thank you for helping.
There are 2 of them and from side to side each are about 1 inch. no it never has moved. Not a purple nudibranch. What is that in your pic affan? it started to pop up about 1.5 months ago and is growing. It looks really cool and would make a great decoration. I plan on ditching the filter that it is growing on right now but i dont know how to take it off and attach it to a piece of live rock.

sir_dudeguy · 09/17/2006, 08:57 PM

wow now thats odd...but like you say awsome lookin. I'd guess at maybe some sort of macro algae or something.

mg426 · 09/17/2006, 09:16 PM

Mabe an encrusting type of sponge.

Trigeek · 09/17/2006, 09:18 PM

Yeah, I'd guess some type of sponge/filter feeder. Pretty cool looking.

chrismunn · 09/17/2006, 09:27 PM

maybe if your lucky it will grow into this?

Salamander · 09/17/2006, 09:29 PM

Looks like some kind of algea to me. Should be simple to move if it is.

jdoenumber2 · 09/19/2006, 09:06 PM

any other ideas?

sir_dudeguy · 09/19/2006, 09:14 PM

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maybe if your lucky it will grow into this?

my internet was taking a long time to finish loading the page, and it looked like there was no pic, so i was halfway thru typing "what...a blank page?" when it finished loading and it popped up lol

But anyways, i'd say thats pretty dang close to it.

AquaReeferMan · 09/19/2006, 09:49 PM

Is it hard or soft??

09/17/2006, 08:34 PM	#1
jdoenumber2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Fairport, NY Posts: 2,093	What is this growing in my tank? It looks like a carnation and is purple with red all around the edges. It jus poped up out of the blue on my HOB filter discharge area. I cant find anything that looks like this. Im just looking for any ideas that i can look in to. Thank you for helping. There are 2 of them and from side to side each are about 1 inch. no it never has moved. Not a purple nudibranch. What is that in your pic affan? it started to pop up about 1.5 months ago and is growing. It looks really cool and would make a great decoration. I plan on ditching the filter that it is growing on right now but i dont know how to take it off and attach it to a piece of live rock.

09/17/2006, 08:57 PM	#2
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	wow now thats odd...but like you say awsome lookin. I'd guess at maybe some sort of macro algae or something. __________________ TAKE...LUCK!!!

09/17/2006, 09:16 PM	#3
mg426 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: maryland Posts: 6,923	Mabe an encrusting type of sponge. __________________ I found a way to make a small fortune running a reef tank. Start with a large fortune. Unofficial President of the SEACLONE haters club Current Tank Info: 125 mixed reef 110 lbs LR, 1x250watt XM 20K MH 2x175watt XM 20K MH on Magetics 2X96 watt actinic PC, 220 watt VHO actinic, 30 gallon refugium, closed loop system powered by Sequence Dart MSX 200 skimmer 38 gallon sump, Oceansmotions squirt

09/17/2006, 09:27 PM	#5
chrismunn Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,200	maybe if your lucky it will grow into this? __________________ Marine Aquarists Association of South Texas Austin Reef Club PBITAWA... Current Tank Info: 14g bio cube

09/17/2006, 09:29 PM	#6
Salamander Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Flagstaff, Arizona Posts: 2,103	Looks like some kind of algea to me. Should be simple to move if it is. __________________ I feel more like myself now than I did before. Current Tank Info: 120g mixed reef, 2 x 250W DE MH, 2 x 54w T5, MSX 200 SKimmer, 2 Koralia 4's, 40g fuge/sump, QT

09/17/2006, 09:18 PM	#4
Trigeek Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Broward County, FL Posts: 638	Yeah, I'd guess some type of sponge/filter feeder. Pretty cool looking.

09/19/2006, 09:06 PM	#7
jdoenumber2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Fairport, NY Posts: 2,093	any other ideas?

09/19/2006, 09:49 PM	#9
AquaReeferMan Got Reef? Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Under the Sea, Pa Posts: 4,593	Is it hard or soft?? __________________ Couple SPS/Zoanthid tanks and a couple of FW planted tanks. Current Tank Info: 5 pieces of glass with some silicone and plastic frames holding them together