Shroom sponge?

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So I got one for you all. These recently popped up in my system. Haven't really added anything lately. They are populating mostly in my pipe organ coral. Any takers?
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that's good one ;) no clue ,but following to find out:)
 

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hmm, really it look like a real mushroom ;Woot , but never saw anything like, it remind me only one leather coral which I don't member the name.
Take another shot under white light please, and look on it is it polyps like on them or nothing? If it's sponge you have to see where are the openings areas where the water enter and go out (only some rock sponges don't have this tubes like openings).
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See the first photo. Definitely no polyps and not a leather. Funny, I always ask for photos with white light or color corrected filter and, that's with a color correction filter :rolleyes:
 

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Im POSITIVE these are heads from a bounce mushroom. I had these amongst some zoas about a year ago and they slowly vanished.

Here are bounce mushroom heads:

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Caulerpa of some sort perhaps?
Nope, not a caulerpa. I'm 99.9% sure it's a sponge. I just don't know what type. The feel and texture and fragility as well as the structure and decidedly not green, is what I'm making my basis on.
 

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Im POSITIVE these are heads from a bounce mushroom. I had these amongst some zoas about a year ago and they slowly vanished.

Here are bounce mushroom heads:

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Respectfully disagree.... this is the beginning form of a species of calurpa...
 
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Im POSITIVE these are heads from a bounce mushroom. I had these amongst some zoas about a year ago and they slowly vanished.

Here are bounce mushroom heads:

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I could only wish. No bounces in my system...
 

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Not caulerpa for certain. That, I do know.
It only takes one dormant spore.... it could have been introduced a while ago and you would not have known. On a frag, in some fish water, it happens...
 

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