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You sound pretty sure, whats telling you that?Beautiful Blasto
1 is red coralline algaeWhat is around it at 1,2&3?
I touched it a while back and felt no hard skeleton.Look like blastos to me...see my avatar.
Lol I feel like people don't read the thread before they give you a response. I think you have had to say this 17 times! It is cool that it grows from a black goo...maybe it is some kind of new soft coral, I would love it in my tank!I touched it a while back and felt no hard skeleton.
You know, just touching it may now allow one to feel the hard skeleton if its thriving and puffy. Mine would flap in the breeze, suggesting a lack of a skeleton. You'd have to push harder to feel it, possibly damaging it.Lol I feel like people don't read the thread before they give you a response. I think you have had to say this 17 times! It is cool that it grows from a black goo...maybe it is some kind of new soft coral, I would love it in my tank!
You know, just touching it may now allow one to feel the hard skeleton if its thriving and puffy. Mine would flap in the breeze, suggesting a lack of a skeleton. You'd have to push harder to feel it, possibly damaging it.
Sure, it may be a new colorful rare species, but Occam's razor suggests to me that it may not be.
Where it came from is my big question as well. There is no dead skeleton around it. Some of the rocks I've had for 20+ years, it definetly wasn't on those. One of my lfs has a big container that sells Fiji live rock and in the last year or so I have gotten a few flat pieces out of that tank when I see one that fits. The rock it's growing on is fist size and not one of those, luckily it's growing on a small rock at the top of the tank so I can move it if needed. It does seem to be growing a little quicker since I turned it towards the light a little while back. Right now I'm just happy that whatever it is it's staying alive and slowly growing, hopefully it continues and eventually engulfs the whole rock. Maybe one of my fish pooped it out .I agree it's a blastomussa welsii. They have at least two distinct growth forms like Duncans, a ball type growth and a plating form. We used to see colonies that were vivid turquoise with the same type of growth pattern and it was hard to tell that they had a hard skeleton because they grew on thin plating rocks.
The question I'm more curious about is where did it come from? Any signs of a dead skeleton around it (would look like a collection of thin bicycle wheel type shapes) or was the rock a recent addition? It might has spawned in someone's tank although I've not heard of a blasto sexual reproducing in aquaria.