eggs?

[SeanD]

Can anyone ID these white bumps

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I can't get a clear look, but I wonder if it's tunicates.

 

[SeanD]

Another pic

 

[Lionfish Lair]

They're soft and squishy right?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Yes, they're tunicates. I can see the structures in those last pictures.

 

[ahiggins]

oh god thats gross..........

 

[SeanD]

they are not soft

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Are they hard like a shell?

 

[SeanD]

yes they are hard like a shell

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Do you think they could be barnacles?

 

[SeanD]

not like the ones on a dock, ive seen those a lot before

 

[Lionfish Lair]

There's another variety different than that type.

I'm going to turn on the ole computer and open the picture. BRB.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I should ask if they react at all when you touch them?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I'm not sure what they are.

 

[SeanD]

Sorry they do not react, thanks for the help

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Are they solid on there or can you move them at all?

 

[SeanD]

Solid

 

[Lionfish Lair]

So strange. Like one moment I think perhaps it's a little bivalve, but the base of the critter is the rock. You can see the arrow is pointing to a "shell" where the critter has died and is gone. That's the rock you see through there. That's not the way a bivalve works. That part sounds very much like a barnacle, but I don't see one single cirri. Hmmmmmm.

 

[SeanD]

so perhaps scrape them off just in case?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Naw. I wouldn't.