Neon green tiny thing need help with what heck this is!

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Is this a coral? A bug? Algae? what the heck is this it was never there and just noticed it two days ago. This was not there i don’t know if it grew to that or I have no idea please somebody tell me what this is!!! No it does not move it stays there either. It looks like a skeletal structure of some sort I think.

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Looks same colour as that torch in front of pic?
Maybe it fell off and self propogating?
I read torches just grow new heads so maybe not but seen a thread other day of a candy cane literally drooping off for 2 weeks like string then dropped off and started growing so probably some kind of coral you already have possibly ? But im new to all this so dont listen me ^_^
 
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Thank you all for helping! Umm so it’s not toadstool and I don’t think torch because it looks like it has a hard body but it’s possible it can be a mushroom or coralline algae. Let me use my coral feeder and touch it lightly to see if it’s indeed hard skeleton or not
 
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Looks same colour as that torch in front of pic?
Maybe it fell off and self propogating?
I read torches just grow new heads so maybe not but seen a thread other day of a candy cane literally drooping off for 2 weeks like string then dropped off and started growing so probably some kind of coral you already have possibly ? But im new to all this so dont listen me ^_^
 
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Wow! UPDATE!!! It’s soft body not hard confirmed after lightly touching it. But it’s not a toadstool and not a torch because the polyps are totally different then this. It possible could be a mushroom but how can that color mushroom appear on that slab of rock 4 months after I bought it with the other shrooms on it? It’s also alive as it released mucus and stuck on there pretty good. What could this be?????
 
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my guess it could be some sort of scoly as I actually had scolys of this color and shape. Could this be?? Like sexually reproduced this tiny scoly? It also has a mouth in center it looks like
 

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Is it attached to the mushroom or can you knock it off?
 

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It's likely a juvenile of the other mushrooms it's sharing the rock with. Depending on conditions it offspring may develop different colors to optimize their phtobiology to the new environment.
 

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