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I have these all over my sandbed, they are long green strands with a small piece of white/clear coming out the top. I pulled one out and will attach pics but can’t tell if it’s just attached to the sand or it’s own shell type thing, I think it might be it’s own shell because it looks like it’s coming right out of the middle. They don’t retract or anything with I touch it. Any help please
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Is it possible that it is some type of wire algae attached to a bit of shell (or similar rubble)?
 
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Is it possible that it is some type of wire algae attached to a bit of shell (or similar rubble)?
Possible but from all the pictures I can find wire algae looks similar to green hair, this isn’t in big clumps it’s just random strands all over the sand
 

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I have these all over my sandbed, they are long green strands with a small piece of white/clear coming out the top. I pulled one out and will attach pics but can’t tell if it’s just attached to the sand or it’s own shell type thing, I think it might be it’s own shell because it looks like it’s coming right out of the middle. They don’t retract or anything with I touch it. Any help please
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Agree with comment. Pics are best in water under white lighting. Impossible to determine anything on a marbled countertop ( we all learn to do pics in time- Took me a couple of years )
 

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Reminds me of bryopsis growing in my Sand bed. Seems wiry at first then starts looking bushy.

The first pic looks kinda like a spaghetti worm tentacle
 
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Agree with comment. Pics are best in water under white lighting. Impossible to determine anything on a marbled countertop ( we all learn to do pics in time- Took me a couple of years )
Still in the learning process! I got some pics I’ll attach below
Reminds me of bryopsis growing in my Sand bed. Seems wiry at first then starts looking bushy.

The first pic looks kinda like a spaghetti worm tentacle
I got some pics of it here, you can see the clear part coming out of the top and how the rest is green
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