Can this be a Tunicate?

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No idea what I am looking at here, but I see two things that have taken up residence next to the base of my Hammer.
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I can only see them after lights-out, when the Hammer retracts for the night. One looks like a tube worm of some kind and the other? Tunicate? Sponge?
 
I can see some spirorbid worms on the skeleton
 

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