Orange Transparent Balls

[DHill6]

These are transparent orange balls with a white flower on top. They also look like an anemone when open, white dots on tips. I used a scalpel and popped them off, removes as a ball. They’re popping up around the scolys hard sides. Photos don’t show the white flower top.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

These are transparent orange balls with a white flower on top. They also look like an anemone when open, white dots on tips. I used a scalpel and popped them off, removes as a ball. They’re popping up around the scolys hard sides. Photos don’t show the white flower top.

Some sort of eggs, @ISpeakForTheSeas can probably help with an ID

 

[DHill6]

Top photo looks like eggs, bottom photo looks like anemone. These open like an anemone with with dots on tips.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I can't tell from the pics, but the description sounds like a Ball Anemone/Corallimorph (taxonomic family Corallimorphidae). They're typically harmless, but sometimes they can reproduce quickly enough to be problematic.

 

[DHill6]

I can't tell from the pics, but the description sounds like a Ball Anemone/Corallimorph (taxonomic family Corallimorphidae). They're typically harmless, but sometimes they can reproduce quickly enough to be problematic.

Also what I was thinking. Started with a couple of them months ago, definitely reproducing, I pulled quite a few today. Thanks for your reply.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Also what I was thinking. Started with a couple of them months ago, definitely reproducing, I pulled quite a few today. Thanks for your reply.

Ball anemones are actually mushrooms (corallimorphs) and generally prefer shaded areas. Are these growing/opening in lighted parts of the tank?

 

[DHill6]

Ball anemones are actually mushrooms (corallimorphs) and generally prefer shaded areas. Are these growing/opening in lighted parts of the tank?

No, they’re on the sides of the scolys so they’re shaded from the scolys

 

[DHill6]

They stretch out like an anemone while lights are on, but shaded from scoly. Pest anemone?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

They stretch out like an anemone while lights are on, but shaded from scoly. Pest anemone?

Need pics under white lights...

 

[DHill6]

 

[DHill6]

Need pics under white lights...

Posted pics under white light

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Posted pics under white light

They are still extremely blue. Maybe someone else can see them well enough to help. I still think ball anemone is the most likely ID.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

They are still extremely blue. Maybe someone else can see them well enough to help. I still think ball anemone is the most likely ID.

@ISpeakForTheSeas , could this be a small tunicate colony?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

@ISpeakForTheSeas , could this be a small tunicate colony?

Hard to say for sure from the pics, but it does look like it may be some stalked tunicates.

Edit: OP, shining a flashlight on the thing may help with getting clearer, whiter pics.

 

[DHill6]

Tried it again 100%white

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I'm still not sure, but regardless of what it is, it appears in the first pic that the coral is expelling mesenteric filaments to attack it... maybe.

 

[DHill6]

There’s a white sponge that grows around it. I remove what I can when it gets thick. Water change tomorrow, I’ll be taking both of them off. Hopefully they don’t pop up again

 

[DHill6]

Pulled this one off